We hope you’ll join us in the record store on Saturday, September 27th at 4:30 PM for an intimate, solo, instore performance and album signing with Rodney Crowell! Crowell has just released his latest album, Airline Highway, via New West Records and we’re thrilled to be able to celebrate his new record with him in the shop! You can preorder a copy here on limited edition blue colored vinyl and on CD and score a wristband for his signing. Crowell will sign all preordered copies when he’s here for his performance. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and wristbands also guarantee entrance to our event. Like space in the record shop, wristbands are limited, so don’t miss your chance to lock down your spot in the shop for this exciting event.

Full of deep empathy, sober insights, and lively guitar licks, Rodney Crowell’s new album takes its title from a seemingly mundane stretch of four-lane blacktop that runs deep into Louisiana. It’s the road he and producer Tyler Bryant drove to reach the remote studio where they recorded these songs, hauling a truckload of gear on a two-day journey that ended in swamps. Along the way Crowell looked up the route they were driving: Airline Highway. It’s the southernmost segment of Highway 61, also called the Blues Highway or the Great River Road, and it follows the Mississippi River from Minnesota down to New Orleans. Crowell is intimately familiar with this part of the country. He grew up on the east side of Houston, just a few hours west of the state line, and made wild forays into Louisiana as a young man to drink or carouse or mostly to catch live music.

Airline Highway is an album full of old, abiding loves, whether it’s a favorite song or a lover you remember fondly. Songs like “Sometime Thang” and “Rainy Days in California” (the latter featuring Lukas Nelson) raise a glass to old romances and encounters with different women in California or down in Louisiana: falling in love, toughing out hard times, growing apart until they become “that small voice on your phone,” to quote a devastating line on “Taking Flight,” co-written with and featuring Ashley McBryde. Some are fictional, Crowell explains, but they all contain some kernel of truth:

"At a basic level there are a lot more years behind me than there are ahead of me. Now it’s just about the work and what a blessing it is to be able to do it. The work truly feeds me in the moment."

Airline Highway is officially out now via New West Records. Copies are available here to preorder for our event on limited edition, signed blue vinyl LP and on CD. All who preorder the album for local, store pickup will receive a wristband with their preorder for our 9/27 signing with Crowell. Preorders are limited to total of FOUR TOTAL per customer / household. For each album preordered, you’ll receive one wristband such that two LPs preordered = two wristbands, one CD preordered = one wristband, etc. All who place preorders in advance will receive an email with preorder pickup and event details on or by the day before our event.

At the event Crowell will sign up to two albums per wristbanded attendee. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and guarantee entrance to our event. (Wristbands are not required for kids 12 & under attending with a wristband-holding adult.)

Preorders placed for local, event pickup will be available starting at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 27th, the day of our event with Rodney Crowell. Event preorders for store pickup will be held for three months after the event date. Please pick up your copy of Airline Highway no later than December 27th.