Album Review: Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky

Rodney Crowell must have decided to strike while the iron was hot by releasing Tarpaper Sky barely a year after his award-winning album with Emmylou Harris came out. A great decision as the new album is a consummate collection of Americana songs, richly detailed, effortless and timeless. God I'm Missing You is the album's starkest moment, emotionally resonant like the best Guy Clark songs while The Flyboy & The Kid quickens the pace on the back of poetic storytelling and Crowell's stage-worn voice. This is an album without pretense, simply well crafted and expertly recorded country songs.