Click HERE to read an excerpt, watch a video interview and get Mary Karr's complete book tour schedule.

Request From Rodney: Get Lit
Hello Everyone,
As I'm sure most of you know, it's rare that I send a personal request out into the electronic marketplace. But because I assume that most of the folks who are on my mailing list are readers, I want to make you aware of Mary Karr's beautiful new memoir, titled Lit, which is scheduled for a fall release. For my money, Mary's work ranks alongside Cormac McCarthy, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, and it's my hope that you will all pre-order as many hardback copies of Lit as is feasable. I'd like nothing better than knowing that my supporters helped catapult such a deserving artist and distinctive voice to the top of the bestsellers list.
yours truly,
Rodney Crowell

Info:
The long-awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry -- a memoir about a self-professed “blackbelt sinner’s” descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection

Rodney At The Ramble
Rodney Crowell was among the artists participating in a "Midnight Ramble" at Levon Helm's Woodstock venue on October 10. With guest band Mitch Ryder, the set list included "'Til I Gain Control Again" and "Ain't Livin' Long Like This." Check it out HERE.

Mountain Stage, Redux
During the September 11-13 weekend, many National Public Radio-affiliate stations re-aired the edition of "Mountain Stage" recorded by Rodney Crowell promoting the release of Sex & Gasoline in 2008. A complete list of stations that carry "Mountain Stage" can be found HERE. The show is archived at NPR.org/mountainstage and archived for continued access. Below are shots from the session.



Rodney & Daughter play Death Penalty Abolition Benefit
Tuesday, June 2nd, at Belcourt Theatre, two multi-generational duos jammed for justice benefiting Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing: Rodney Crowell and daughter, Chelsea Crowell; Ranger Doug and son, James Green.

TCASK's mission is to Honor Life by Abolishing the Death Penalty.  Click HERE for more details.


Above, Chelsea and Rodney (photo by Alan Messer)

RODNEY CROWELL'S 'SEX & GASOLINE' NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY
December 4, 2008 (Chapel Hill, NC) – Rodney Crowell is nominated in the Best Contemporary Folk / Americana Album category for his album Sex & Gasoline (Work Song/Yep Roc).

Now Grammy recognized over the span of three decades, Rodney Crowell adds another milestone to an already illustrious career with this nomination for his critically acclaimed album Sex & Gasoline. Crowell previously won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Country Song for his hit single 'After All This Time' from his legendary album Diamonds & Dirt.

Over the course of his career Rodney has written songs for some of music's most notable artists (Emmylou Harris, Bob Seger), collaborated with Johnny Cash, produced breakthrough albums (Roseanne Cash) and charted five number one hits of his own on the Billboard charts.

Sex & Gasoline was produced by sought-after artist and producer Joe Henry and its title track peaked at number 1 on the Americana Music Chart, holding strong in the top five for the past several months. The album was released through a partnership between Work Song Inc. and Yep Roc Records. This is the first nomination for Work Song and the fourth nomination for Yep Roc.

Rodney will be performing songs from Sex & Gasoline at the famed Lincoln Center in New York City on January 23, 2008.

Listen to Rodney's NYC Mountain Stage Perfromance!
Rodney's performance from October's Mountain Stage at New York's Town Hall is now available for your streaming pleasure! Head on over toNPR.org to listen.

'Sex and Gasoline video now on YouTube!
Head on over to YouTube and check out theNEW VIDEO for the song 'Sex and Gasoline' from the new album 'Sex & Gasoline'.

Listen to Rodney's Interview with David Dye on WXPN's World Café
Rodney spoke with David about his new album following his performance on World Cafe Live with Jenny Scheinman. Listen to it when it airs on Tuesday, October 7th.Click HERE to check local times for the broadcast.
 

Rodney Crowell on Tour Starting September 22nd!
With an 18-city tour of the East Coast and Mid-West kicking-off Sept 22nd, Rodney will be playing his new songs live, with support from Jenny Scheinman and Will Kimbrough.
 

The OFFICIAL Rodney Crowell MySpace Page!
Even though there has been a strong Rodney Crowell fan presence on MySpace, we're pleased to announce there is now an OFFICIAL Rodney Crowell MySpace page. Take a look, sign up, be Rodney's friend, and stay tuned for official news and information, updated tour dates, and brand new music from 'Sex & Gasoline.'
 

Listen to Rodney on WXPN's World Café on Friday's Free at Noon concert.
Rodney performed live on World Cafe with Jenny Scheinman:Click HERE to listen!His interview with David Dye will air at a later date TBD.
 

Rodney Crowell's new album Sex & Gasoline will be available on Sept 2nd.  Downloads will be available through iTunes and Amazon and the CD will be on-sale at local retailers as well.
Sex and Gasoline is a collection of songs about women –- lovers, daughters, friends, Madonnas and whores -- often told from an imagined female point of view.  His craftsmanship is so fine-tuned that he manages to pull off a song like "The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design" that begins: "If I could have just one wish, maybe for an hour, I'd want to be a woman, and feel that phantom power…."  Sex and gasoline is a record about feminine power, too much and too little.

In a size zero culture where heroin chic starvation and the teenage archetypal whore – a la a certain pop singer unraveling before the media's watchful eye -is the measure by which young women are forced to assess their sexual relevance, I've been witness to the toll Bulimia, Anorexia and other abuses can take on a good many would-be Goddesses.  You can't be too famous and too skinny has replaced the old adage sit tight and the boys will catch up with you at around age thirty-six. As far as the gasoline part, one needs only to turn on the news. You might say the record is about modern society strip- mining the feminine mystique . . . that and how good I sang and played. - Rodney Crowell


Rodney will be a guest on WXPN's World Café on Friday August 22. 
Hear him play on WXPN's live at noon (or approx 12:20PM).  He will also tape an interview with David Dye which will air at a later date TBD.


Six of Rodney's songs have been incorporated into the book The World in Six Songs by Daniel Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music:
Levitin tells the story of the co-evolution of music and of the human brain, how each one influenced the development of the other over tens of thousands of years. An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin's best-selling debut, This Is Your Brain on Music (translated into 8 languages), changed the way we think about how music gets in our heads. Now in what is being called a tour de force by leading scientists, in THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS (Dutton Books) he shows how six specific forms of music played a pivotal role in creating human culture and society as we know it. Levitin masterfully weaves together the story of human evolution, music, anthropology, psychology and biology from the dawn of homo sapiens to the present.

Buy your copy:Amazon.com