Rodney Crowell and Jenny Scheinman join us for a Free At Noon Show on Friday, August 22 from World Cafe Live. A co-production of WXPN and NPR Music.

Rodney Crowell is an award-winning singer/songwriter. Often narrowly associated with country music, his songs have a much wider reach spanning rock, folk, swing, and bluegrass. He is a contemporary of Steve Earle and, like Earle, was also influenced by the songwriting greats Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Rodney played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band".

Following a six-year hiatus at the end of the '90s, Rodney Crowell has returned in the 21st century with his formidable skills still arcing skyward. The critically acclaimed The Houston Kid (2001) and Fate's Right Hand (2003) were arguably his deepest, most fully-developed records in a long, glittering career. Crowell was then set up to up the ante yet again with The Outsider in 2005. His next album, Sex and Gasoline, is due out in September.

Jenny Scheinman is a singer, violin player, composer, and arranger. She has taken the "#1 Rising Star Violinist" title in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and has been listed as one of their "Top Ten Overall Violinists" for the last five years. In addition, she has garnered numerous high-profile arranging credits with artists such as Lucinda Williams, Bono, Lou Reed, and Sean Lennon, and has toured and recorded with Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Vinicius Cantuaria, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Mark Ribot.

Website: rodneycrowell.com / jennyscheinman.com
MySpace: myspace.com/jennyscheinman
Recent Release: The Outsider
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Label: Yep Roc
Origin: Houston, TX

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