Sunday, May 09, 2010

After All This Time :: Rodney Crowell

2 comments:

nofiron said...

I know you think I'm a nut case but we see eye to eye on Rodney Crowell. In country I like John Doe, Willie Nelson the great Merl Haggard, Buck Owens (in a light mood), the Louvin Brothers, and many others who are soulful and Real.

PBurns said...

Eh? Don't recall any arguments, but that what's happens when you click past 50 -- you can start hiding your own Easter eggs.

Crowell was married for 13 years to Roseanne Cash - Johnny's daughter. He tells one of the greatest Cash stories of all time:

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INTERVIEWERS: When did you first meet Cash?

CROWELL: At the Beverley Hills Hotel when I was dating his daughter. Went to dinner in the Bungalow, just me and her and John and June. You can imagine – I was 27 years old. It was just a delightful dinner. And they treated me like royalty. They were just so charming. John and June were world-class charming human beings. I was a couple of feet off the ground. The next time, Rosanne and I were living together. John didn’t smile on that. He thought that was not right. So we received a summons – airline tickets to their sugar plantation down there [in Jamaica]. So I got drunk all the way. I drank bloody Marys to Miami and then switched to rum going down to Montego Bay, and then when we got there I was really way up in my cups. There was a confrontation between John and Rosanne about sleeping arrangements, so I with drunken bravura I cut into the conversation. I said, you know I’d be a hypocrite if I changed my lifestyle – trying to be a puffed-up man and hold my own with [chuckle] one of the world class icons – and he kind of looked at me, and he said: “Son. I don’t know you well enough to miss you if you were gone.” He dismissed me in a heartbeat. Which instantly sobered me. And from that point on… he made a friend for life with me, because he just showed me what real strength is.

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How good is that?