But What Will the 2024 Neighbors Think/Rodney Crowell by Rodney Crowell NEUF

Tracks:
Here Come the 80s
Aint No Money
Oh, What a Feeling
Its Only Rock N Roll
On a Real Good Night
Ashes by Now
Heartbroke
Queen of Hearts
Blues in the Daytime
One About England, The
Stars on the Water
Just Wanta Dance
She Aint Going Nowhere
Dont Need No Other Now
Shame on the Moon
Only Two Hearts
Victim or a Fool
All Youve Got to Do
Til I Gain Control Again
Old Pipeliner

Performer Notes:

• 2 LPs on 1CD: BUT WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK (1980)/RODNEY CROWELL (1981).
• Personnel: Rodney Crowell (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Rodney Crowell; Albert Lee (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, background vocals); Steve Wood (vocals, electric piano); Don Whaley, Larry Willoughby (vocals); Vince Gill (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Amos Garrett (guitar); Emory Gordy (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric 6-string guitar, electric 12-string guitar, piano, electric piano, bass guitar); Frank Reckard (electric guitar); Phil Kenzie (saxophone, horns); Tower of Power Sax Section (saxophone); Bill Lamb (horns); Rosanne Cash (background vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Hank DeVito (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar); Craig Leon (flute, piano); Tony Brown (piano, electric piano, keyboards); Booker T. Jones (piano, organ); Larrie Londin (drums, percussion).
• Photographer: Norman Seeff.
• While his 1978 debut album, Aint Livin Long Like This, certainly caught the attention of folks in the music business, it was his second album, 1980s But What Will the Neighbors Think, that first alerted radio listeners and mainstream country fans to Rodney Crowells gifts as a songwriter and performer, and while his self-titled 1981 follow-up wasnt the hit But What Will the Neighbors Think turned out to be, it confirmed the man was a major talent whose smart, edgy songs were a far cry from what was the norm in Nashville at the time. Collectables has reissued these two albums on a single CD, and decades after it first came out But What Will the Neighbors Think still sounds like the work of a talented maverick not afraid to take some chances; Crowells grim assessment of America at the dawn of the Reagan era, "Here Come the 80s," would have been a gutsy way to open an album in any genre, especially country, and if "Its Only Rock n Roll" takes on a less serious topic (the music business), its no less venomous, or hits its target with less impact. "Ashes by Now" and "The One About England" showed Crowell was as sure a hand with more personal subjects, and the spare snap of Craig Leons production allows this to walk a fine line between the rock club and the honky tonk and capture the best of both sides. Rodney Crowell was a less immediately striking album, but still has more than its share of great songs (including his original versions of "Shame on the Moon" and "Til I Gain Control Again"), and Crowell, who also produced, assembled a superb crew of musicians, including Albert Lee, Booker T. Jones, Vince Gill, and Rosanne Cash (who was his wife at the time). These two albums represented Rodney Crowell at the first apex of his career, and after years out of print, its good to see them available again, and in an affordable format at that. ~ Mark Deming

Producer: Rodney Crowell, Craig Leon, Rodney Crowell, Craig Leon

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: Rosanne Cash; Vince Gill

Release Date: 14 March, 2006

Label: Collectables

Dimensions: 12.7 x 14.2 x 0.9 centimeters (0.06 kg)