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Article: Rodney Crowell Fate's Right Hand.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
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- Sing Out!
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- January 1, 2004
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Rodney Crowell's last album. The Houston Kid, signaled a shift in his songwriting toward the personal. There he looked back at growing up. With Fate's Right Hand he writes about facing mortality and the choices of the latter half of a lifetime, a brave place to go as he must be fearless about exposing his own shortcomings openly.
The playing is on a par with Kid as Rodney uses the same musicians who shone so brightly there. Some will find the songs preachy or a bit dry. I was moved by the catharsis he found in this song cycle of self-discovery. After opening with the life-so-far ...