A special note from Rodney about his new album, Sex & Gasoline
Sex & Gasoline is a record about feminine power, too much and too little.
In a size zero culture where heroin chic starvation and the teenage archetypal whore – a la a certain pop singer unraveling before the media's watchful eye - is the measure by which young women are forced to assess their sexual relevance, I've been witness to the toll Bulimia, Anorexia and other abuses can take on a good many would-be Goddesses. You can't be too famous and too skinny has replaced the old adage sit tight and the boys will catch up with you at around age thirty-six.
As far as the gasoline part, one needs only to turn on the news. You might say the record is about modern society strip-mining the feminine mystique . . . that and how good I sang and played.
-Rodney Crowell
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pre-order Sex & Gasoline and get an autographed copy!
The first 200 fans to pre-order Sex & Gasoline will receive their copy autographed by Rodney!
Americana literati Rodney Crowell continues down the path blazed by his previous three records with Sex & Gasoline. Crowell bounded onto the music landscape in 1988 with the Top 40 crossover album Diamonds and Dirt, which produced an astonishing five number one singles and a Grammy Award for the single 'After All This Time.' As part of Emmylou Harris' original Hot Band, Crowell's musical pedigree is unquestionable, at one time even earning him the right to remake Johnny Cash's singular 'Ring of Fire' with Cash himself singing Rodney's reworked melody. With his new album Sex & Gasoline, he continues to write about contemporary themes. Sex & Gasoline was produced by Joe Henry and contains what Crowell says are, "some of the best performances I've given to date." For the new material Crowell and Henry brought in some of music's most skilled sidemen including Doyle Bramhall II (acoustic and electric guitar), Greg Leisz (acoustic and electric guitar, pedal and lap steel, mandolin, mandocello and dobro), Patrick Warren (piano, pump organ and Chamberlin), David Piltch (upright and electric bass) and Jay Bellerose (drums and percussion).
Release Date: September 2, 2008
New Rodney Crowell Cd-Sex & Gasoline
Moderator: SMLCHNG