Rodney Crowell

Ever since 2001's The Houston Kid, country singer Rodney Crowell has been coming to
terms with his private life in his music. The largely acoustic Sex & Gasoline is his meditation
on femininity — not just a celebration of women, but a real attempt at empathy. In the
midtempo shuffle "The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design," he imagines what it feels like to
be female. Over the fingerpicked folk of "Moving Work of Art," he reveals his ow... More >