The Outsider - Rodney Crowell
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The country singer-songwriter follows 'Fate's Right Hand' with an 11-song set that includes a collaboration with Emmylou Harris and John Prine on Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm."
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. An unexpected ball. [19 Aug 2005, p.144]
  2. Rocks harder than any Crowell record in the past.
  3. 80
    The Outsider is delivered with the forthrightness, jive and firepower of a hip Southern Baptist preacher. [Aug 2005, p.102]
  4. I like this, but I have a hard time recommending it to others, unless they are more interested in righteous political discourse than in actual songcraft, and unless they are huge fans of unsubtle screeds.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. LornaA
    10
    As a listener to an exceedingly eclectic variety of music for over 40 years,I must say that this is right up there in the top of the CD's I own...near perfect. Best work Crowell has ever done. "Beautiful Despair" is knowing I will never write like Crowell on this release. Don't be put off by the "country" label. This transcends genre. I am buying copies for everyone I love. Expand
  2. ValA
    10
    Rocks hard, says what he's thinking. I love it.
  3. asdfaasdf
    10
    good
  4. LL
    10
    Damn nice........ socially.......... morally........ indivisdualy