Diamonds & Dirt | ||||
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Released | March 30, 1988 | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Studio | Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 34:54 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Rodney Crowell Tony Brown | |||
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Singles from Diamonds & Dirt | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Diamonds & Dirt is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, released in 1988. [4] [5] His fifth studio album, it was his second release for Columbia Records. [2] The album was his most successful, achieving RIAA gold certification. All five of its singles reached Number One on the Billboard country charts, setting a record for the most Number One hits from a country album. [6] In order of release, they were "It's Such a Small World" (a duet with then-wife Rosanne Cash), "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried", "She's Crazy for Leavin", "After All This Time", and a cover of Buck Owens' "Above and Beyond (The Call of Love)".
The album was reissued by Columbia Legacy, with three bonus tracks.
Diamonds & Dirt was Crowell's first album recorded entirely in Nashville and the first aimed squarely at a country audience. [7] It was produced by Tony Brown and Crowell. [3] [8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "a stirring treatise on the quest for understanding and balance in a relationship." [3] No Depression wrote that the songs are "played by a band that, in its day, rivaled the Desert Rose Band and Dwight Yoakam’s backing unit as the tightest pseudo-honky-tonkers in country music." [9] Reviewing the reissue, The A.V. Club wrote that the album "still sounds pretty good ... especially in light of the sort of unnatural, reverb-laden late-'80s production that makes everything go 'poof'." [10] Spin deemed it "a traditional country record [on which Crowell] ends ups rocking harder than ever before." [11]
All songs written by Rodney Crowell except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Crazy Baby" | Crowell, Will Jennings | 3:06 |
2. | "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" | 3:17 | |
3. | "She's Crazy for Leavin'" | Crowell, Guy Clark | 3:16 |
4. | "After All This Time" | 4:28 | |
5. | "I Know You're Married" | 3:31 | |
6. | "Above and Beyond" | Harlan Howard | 2:28 |
7. | "It's Such a Small World" (duet with Rosanne Cash) | 3:21 | |
8. | "I Didn't Know I Could Lose You" | 3:21 | |
9. | "Brand New Rag" | Crowell, Jennings | 3:07 |
10. | "The Last Waltz" | Crowell, Jennings | 5:21 |
11. | "I've Got My Pride but I Got to Feed the Kids" | 2:28A | |
12. | "It's Lonely Out" | 3:40A | |
13. | "Lies Don't Lie3" | 3:04A |
AOnly included on Legacy re-issue.
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