Had Crowell on The Chicago Sessions (2023) in conjunction with Wilcos Jeff Tweedy as producers beat the hearts of the Americana audience, the 75-year-old is now going a few generation rejuvenation steps: Tyler Bryant, who is happy to use his band The Shakedown and a Southern Hard-Rock Sound like AC/DC or Guns Roses contested, acts on Airline Highway as a producer and casual guitarist and puts crowell with Willie-Sohn Lukas Nelson, Larkin Poe or Blackberry Smokes Charlie Starr at the side of the new Roots Rock Guard.
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The result is an album in which ancient shoulder views are balanced with juvenile momentum. Crowell’s lyrical talent (“She’Sa Wildwood Flower in a Red Corvette / Tanya Tucker meets Cate Blanchett”) is not just on the lovely “Someime Thang”, but the ex-husband of Rosanne Cash and former musical partner of Emmylou Harris is growing in the duet with Ashley McBryde on the Road-trip-enthusiasts “Taking Flight” almost beyond his own legacy.
The lively cajun youth memories of Lightnin ‘Hopkins’ to Carl Perkins to Gene Vincent already transported in the song title “The Twenty-One Song Salute (in Memory of GG Shinn and Cléoma Falcon)” knows how to please “Heaven Can You Help”.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 09/25.