Rodney Crowell To Release ‘Then Again’ Featuring Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, More In June

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Rodney Crowell is releasing a project largely recorded two decades ago, Then Again, on June 26 via New West Records.

The 10-track set was produced by Crowell and Steuart Smith with additional production by Dan Knobler.

The album’s first single, “Are You One Of Us?,” a duet with the late Guy Clark, is the final recording between the two friends and collaborators. The album also features appearances Lyle Lovett, Benmont Tench, Emmylou Harris, Lera Lynn and more.

Added to the original sessions are two newly recorded selections, “If I Could Speak to Leonard,” a love letter to the late Leonard Cohen written before his death in 2016, as well as “Go Light a Candle,” which was released last year.

“I guess you could call it a lost album. I stumbled upon it in my vault at home,” says Crowell. “I’d forgotten about it completely. There was much talk of the previous albums as a trilogy, so when I finished this one, I listened to it and thought, Oh shit, I just hear all the same sounds and techniques glaring at me. I needed to have a different experience, so I went out to L.A. to make a record with Joe Henry. I just loved what happened once I rediscovered it. I wanted to call these guys up and say, Hey! Let’s make a new record. Then Again is like having one last dance with those guys.”

Crowell is set to launch tour dates Saturday (April 25) in Badalona, Spain in support of last year’s Airline Highway.

Then Again Track List: 
1. “I Won’t Lie”
2. “Are You One of Us? (feat. Guy Clark)”
3. “If I Could Speak To Leonard”
4. “Bring It on Home To Memphis”
5. “The Ballad of Artemis and Orion”
6. “Sing Your Heart Out (feat. Kieran Goss & Annie Kinsella)”
7. “Whatcha Gonna Do Now #2 (feat. Lyle Lovett & Chely Wright)”
8. “The Has-Been Vents His Spleen”
9. “40 Winters”
10. “Go Light a Candle (feat. Emmylou Harris & Lera Lynn)”
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