Album
The Outsider
2005 · Folk, World, & Country
Rare pressing on Gatefold
The Outsider is a Folk album by Rodney Crowell, originally released in 2005. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.
About
<i>The Outsider</i> might be Rodney Crowell’s most musically simplistic album, but it’s also his most lyrically ambitious. Bob Dylan is a shadow hanging over this record, and his influence seems to have become a preoccupation for Crowell in middle age. On “Beautiful Despair” he sings: “Beautiful despair is hearing Dylan when you're drunk at 3 a.m./Knowing that the chances are no matter what you'll never write like him/Oh brother.” Other songs address what Crowell sees as the deteriorating state of the world. “The Obscenity Prayer” is an acidic satire of American materialism, while “Don’t Get Me Started” deals with everything from the national debt to overseas wars and is by far the most overtly political statement Crowell has ever put on record. The Dylan influence is made more explicit on a cover of “Shelter from the Storm,” sung with Crowell’s longtime benefactor Emmylou Harris. For all of Crowell’s lyrical ambitions, <i>The Outsider</i> fares best when he matches straightforward lyrics to straightforward riffs, as on “Say You Love Me,” a hopped-up merger of Byrds melody and amplified grit.
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Tracklist
- 1Say You Love Me3:32
- 2The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)3:54
- 3The Outsider4:23
- 4Dancin' Circles Round the Sun (Epictetus Speaks)4:31
- 5Beautiful Despair3:53
- 6Don't Get Me Started5:51
- 7Ignorance Is the Enemy4:48
- 8Glasgow Girl4:43
- 9Things That Go Bump In the Day4:00
- 10Shelter from the Storm5:26
- 11We Can't Turn Back4:49
Sound DNA
- Folk
- Singer-Songwriter
- warm
- earnest
- confessional
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Beth Nielsen ChapmanBACKING VOCALS
- Billy LivseyORGAN
- Brodie JenkinsBACKING VOCALS
- Buddy MillerBACKING VOCALS
- Chad CromwellDRUMS
- Chris RodriguezBACKING VOCALS
- Crystal TalieferoBACKING VOCALS
- Eddie BayersDRUMS
- Emmylou HarrisVOCALS , GUITAR VOICE , BACKING VOCALS
- Greg MorrowDRUMS
- Jedd HughesBACKING VOCALS GUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS, BACKING VOCALS
- Jerry McPhersonLEAD GUITAR
- Jim HornSAXOPHONE
- John CowanBACKING VOCALS
- John David SoutherBACKING VOCALS
- John HobbsKEYBOARDS ORGAN
- John MockCONCERTINA, TIN WHISTLE
- Jonathan YudkinFIDDLE STRINGS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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