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Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: <i>Old Yellow Moon</i>

By Holly Gleason at 5:13 PM on February 27, 2013

On “Hanging Up My Heart” and Roger Miller’s vintage “Invitation To The Blues,” Old Yellow Moon’s opening tracks, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris seem to embrace a randy hard-country throwdown, tinged with Texas shuffles and twin fiddles. read more

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Paste mPlayer Issue #81 Is Live!

By Paste Staff at 4:29 PM on February 19, 2013

This week’s issue features Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, director Roman Coppola, Beach Fossils and Jessie Ware.... read more

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Video Premiere: Deep Dark Woods, Rodney Crowell - Live from the Americana Music Convention

By Dacey Orr at 1:00 PM on January 11, 2013

Each year, the Americana Music Association arrives in Nashville, Tenn. to celebrate the genre and congratulate the accomplishments of its artists. Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records had several of their artists sit for a series of intimate performances at Minutia Studios between t. Catch two clips from their series exclusively in the players below. The first is with Deep Dark Woods, a Canadian band that charmed Paste back at Newport Folk Festival with their alt-country sound. The second comes from Rodney Crowell, the Grammy Award-winning musician who has produced and written tracks on several hit records for other artists... read more

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Rodney Crowell: Tall Tales Driven by Audacity

By Geoffrey Himes at 3:16 PM on June 7, 2012

About 10 years ago, when Rodney Crowell started the memoir that would be published last year as Chinaberry Sidewalks, he was talking about the challenges of writing prose with his pal Mickey Raphael, Willie Nelson's longtime harmonica player. read more

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Singer/Songwriter: Separated by More Than a Slash

By Geoffrey Himes at 8:38 AM on January 17, 2012

The Curmudgeon: Questioning Assumptions in Popular Music Rodney Crowell once described his career to me like this: “I developed quickly as a songwriter, slowly but surely as a producer, but the last thing that came into focus was the performing.” What struck me was the distinction he made between singing and songwriting, as if the two activities were so different that they needed to be considered separately. He made me realize that the slash in the middle of the phrase, “singer/songwriter,” is the most tenuous, unexamined, over-hyped piece of punctuation in American music. The folk-music and Americana scenes operate... read more

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Rosanne Cash, Avett Brothers Win Americana Music Awards

By Kasia Pilat at 3:57 PM on September 10, 2010

The 9th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards were handed out in Nashville’s celebrated Ryman Auditorium last night, honoring a selection of notable music greats.... read more

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Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 16-18 (June - November 2005)

By Steve LaBate at 7:39 AM on May 29, 2009

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)Next week, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we were in our... read more

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