"We met somewhere in the crossroads and learned a lot from each other": Rodney Crowell on country royalty, loving Southern rock again and new album Airline Highway

Rodney Crowell headshot.

Since blazing a country trail through Nashville in the early 70s, firstly as member of Emmylou Harris’s Hot Band and then as a revered solo artist, Texan veteran Rodney Crowell has become roots-rock royalty. His fabulous new record Airline Highway, his twentieth studio album, was recorded in Louisiana with a host of young admirers, among them Lukas Nelson, Ashley McBryde, Larkin Poe, Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr and producer Tyler Bryant.