Review: Rodney Crowell - Rodney Crowell

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odney Crowell has been on quite a run of late, recording three straight albums that rank among the strongest, smartest country records of the decade. So to say that his latest, Sex and Gasoline, isn't quite up to the level of its predecessors is to say that it's merely one of the strongest, smartest country albums of the year. Its opening three tracks, however, actually suggest that it will unfold as Crowell's fourth straight masterpiece. The title track, a nervy, acoustic blues number, is an angry treatise on modern society that tackles politics and pop culture with biting turns of...