- Born
- Birth nameRodney James Crowell
- Rodney Crowell was born on August 7, 1950 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Le Contrat (1986), Pour l'amour du jeu (1999) and La firme (1993). He has been married to Claudia Church since September 6, 1998. He was previously married to Rosanne Cash and Martha Dant Watts.
- SpousesClaudia Church(September 6, 1998 - present)Rosanne Cash(April 7, 1979 - March 11, 1992) (divorced, 3 children)Martha Dant Watts(October 16, 1975 - March 23, 1979) (divorced, 1 child)
- He wrote and recorded "Making Memories of Us". Written for his wife Claudia, and recorded by both Rodney with the 'Notorious Cherry Bombs', and Keith Urban - who released it as a single, which became a #1 hit - "Memories" has become a romantic song favored by many.
- Has a band, with Vince Gill, called the 'Notorious Cherry Bombs'.
- Rosanne Cash is Johnny Cash's daughter.
- Has three daughters with Rosanne Cash: Caitlin Rivers Crowell (born 1980), Chelsea Jean Crowell (born 1982) and Carrie Kathleen Crowell (born 1988).
- A lifelong Hank Williams fan and aficionado, Rodney became the obvious choice to coach British actor Tom Hiddleston for his role as Williams in the biopic I Saw the Light (2015). Hiddleston actually moved into Crowell's Nashville home to undergo a crash course in singing and guitar playing country style.
- I came here as a guy with a pretty deep knowledge of music, but I hadn't started writing my own. I hadn't found my voice and my vision, and I was lucky enough to fall right into this creative group of poets. Johnny Cash was a poet, more powerful than his global Man in Black persona.
- There are those things that I've cobbled slowly, one couplet at a time, and labored over, and then poof! one day there it is, and it takes on life. Truman Capote said great books aren't written, they're rewritten.
- I don't really invite myself to take full ownership of what I've accomplished because the carrot is still way out there in front of me. I like it that way because it seems to me that if I ever had any self-satisfaction that would be the kiss of death for the artist's life that I want to lead and that I love to lead.
- I was raised on country music, not quite Appalachian but certainly the Roy Acuff, Hank Williams version of it. Of course I was just of an age when all the good music that came along inspired me too.
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