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Years from now writers will expound the mysteries of a subgenre called "Pandemic Music" and whether the insights have resonance or were just the result of hermetic inbred blip. Not surprisingly, instead of trying to change the subject, most recordings made during the lockdown tend to be solemn personal accountings of failures and past mistakes. Singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell had a record nearly completed when Covid-19 hit and he was forced indoors with his wife, two dogs and a lot of writing time on his hands. On his 22nd record the spiritual inheritor of the Texas troubadour tradition birthed by Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark is too wise to go too maudlin and egoistic. But Triage, which was retooled during 2020, is definitely a quieter, more lyrically dense Crowell—actively parsing his regrets—than we have heard in recent years. "Transient Global Amnesia Blues," inspired by a scary bout Crowell had with a benign form of amnesia, is uncommonly wordy and more than a little fantastical: "From the rainbow eucalyptus stands beyond the River Styx/ To the blood falls in the Arctic it's at least eight thousand clicks/ You can get there as the crow flies headed north from Singapore/ But you better get a move on 'fore she melts down to the core." Love was also clearly on Crowell's mind as he sat indoors; the title track is a meditation on this power over the bones of a song where he concludes, "Love is all creation/ Love is manifest" and the ruminations continue on the slow blues "I'm All About Love," which is saved by Joe Robinson's distorted guitarwork. The pandemic-induced associations continue in a brighter vein with "One Little Bird" where he again looks inward, returning to mistakes that "caused some hurt that I can't mend" with welcome harmonica solos by Rory Hoffman. Always a left-of-Music-Row pioneer of the genre now called Americana, Crowell the exceptional songwriter re-emerges in "Something Has To Change," Triage's most upbeat number that settles into a sturdy groove with Raymond James Mason's muted trombone growling out a solo. Just in case we didn't get the message, there's the explicit closer, "This Body Isn't All There is to Who I Am." A bit too serious and less tuneful than most Crowell collections, Triage is the sound of whatever got him through the long pandemic night. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
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Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Words and Music by Rodney Crowell, BMG Gold Songs / Saddle Springs Songshop - admin by BMG Rights Management, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Words and music by Rodney Crowell, BMG Gold Songs / Saddle Springs Songshop - admin by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - JOHN LEVENTHAL, Composer - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Lev-A-Tunes (ASCAP) - admin by Downtown Music Group, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Rodney Crowell, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Dan Knobler, Producer - Ol' J-Bo Music Music (ASCAP) - admin by Sheltered Music / Care of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Album review
Years from now writers will expound the mysteries of a subgenre called "Pandemic Music" and whether the insights have resonance or were just the result of hermetic inbred blip. Not surprisingly, instead of trying to change the subject, most recordings made during the lockdown tend to be solemn personal accountings of failures and past mistakes. Singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell had a record nearly completed when Covid-19 hit and he was forced indoors with his wife, two dogs and a lot of writing time on his hands. On his 22nd record the spiritual inheritor of the Texas troubadour tradition birthed by Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark is too wise to go too maudlin and egoistic. But Triage, which was retooled during 2020, is definitely a quieter, more lyrically dense Crowell—actively parsing his regrets—than we have heard in recent years. "Transient Global Amnesia Blues," inspired by a scary bout Crowell had with a benign form of amnesia, is uncommonly wordy and more than a little fantastical: "From the rainbow eucalyptus stands beyond the River Styx/ To the blood falls in the Arctic it's at least eight thousand clicks/ You can get there as the crow flies headed north from Singapore/ But you better get a move on 'fore she melts down to the core." Love was also clearly on Crowell's mind as he sat indoors; the title track is a meditation on this power over the bones of a song where he concludes, "Love is all creation/ Love is manifest" and the ruminations continue on the slow blues "I'm All About Love," which is saved by Joe Robinson's distorted guitarwork. The pandemic-induced associations continue in a brighter vein with "One Little Bird" where he again looks inward, returning to mistakes that "caused some hurt that I can't mend" with welcome harmonica solos by Rory Hoffman. Always a left-of-Music-Row pioneer of the genre now called Americana, Crowell the exceptional songwriter re-emerges in "Something Has To Change," Triage's most upbeat number that settles into a sturdy groove with Raymond James Mason's muted trombone growling out a solo. Just in case we didn't get the message, there's the explicit closer, "This Body Isn't All There is to Who I Am." A bit too serious and less tuneful than most Crowell collections, Triage is the sound of whatever got him through the long pandemic night. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:58
- Main artists: Rodney Crowell
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RC1 Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
(C) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers (P) 2021 RC1 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
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