“Sex & Gasoline”? Sounds like someone loves getting a blowjob in the car! Anyway, on his latest album Rodney Crowell does what he does best… play and sing songs. Mostly about women. Hell, in “The Rise And Fall Of Intelligent Design” he even goes as far as to wish he could be a woman for an hour or so. Empathy or insanity… who knows?
This new album also marks the first time Crowell is not producing his own album if I’m not mistaken. Joe Henry is behind the knobs on this one and it seems like his biggest contribution was making an album that’s country at heart but that doesn’t sound like your typical country album except for little bits of steel guitar here and there.
The end result is yet another fine release by this Steve Earle contemporary. It could’ve used a little more power every now and again but Crowell’s sincerity makes up for it in the end.
Score: 7 out of 10
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Score: 7 out of 10
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