Legendary singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell is ready to launch his new album Airline Freeway on August 29, 2025, through New West Information. Produced by guitar virtuoso Tyler Bryant and blended by Grammy-winner Trina Shoemaker, the 10-track assortment was recorded within the coronary heart of New Orleans, crackling with the colourful power of the Crescent Metropolis. The album is a pure evolution from his Grammy-nominated The Chicago Periods, and finds Crowell in effective type—reflective, fearless, and fired-up.
Airline Freeway showcases Crowell’s timeless songwriting alongside of some nice nation and roots artists. Lukas Nelson co-writes and lends his voice to the sun-drenched opener “Wet Days in California,” Ashley McBryde groups up on the emotional gut-punch “Taking Flight,” (hear above) Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke trades vocals on “Heaven Can You Assist,” and the Lovell sisters of Larkin Poe add concord and their signature slide guitar all through.
“This report is a doc of me falling in love with these musicians,” Crowell shares. “We caught that on tape.” That chemistry is clear in tracks like “The Twenty-One Track Salute (Owed to G.G. Shinn and Cléoma Falcon).” The monitor, laced with nods to Louisiana legends and 21 totally different songs, is a sonic love letter to Crowell’s earliest musical influences within the Texas-Louisiana borderlands.
With a profession that’s spanned greater than 5 many years and contains 15 #1 hits, two GRAMMY Awards, and songs reduce by everybody from Johnny Money and Willie Nelson to Keith City and Etta James, Crowell stays creatively stressed. “At this level, my ambition isn’t to be a family identify,” he says. “It’s to be glad with the work I do. I’m at a spot the place it truly is about having enjoyable.”
The album’s roots run deep. Crowell and Bryant holed up with a band of ace gamers at Dockside Studio in Maurice, Louisiana, recording with spontaneity and soul. The result’s an album that captures the warmth, humidity, and coronary heart of the area, tapping into the swamp-pop spirit that first impressed Crowell as a younger man sneaking throughout the Texas border to listen to The Boogie Kings dwell.
Crowell will assist Airline Freeway with a fall tour starting October 1st. He’ll additionally make a number of appearances at this yr’s Americanafest in Nashville from September 9-13. Particular visitors embrace The Secret Sisters, Thomas Csorba, and William Elliott Whitmore.
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