Rodney Crowell has been writing and recording in the Americana field for decades. He released his debut album in 1978, and went on to have his greatest success in country music in the 1980s into the '90s. He's still at the top of his game as a songwriter, with recent albums that have included two collaborations with Emmylou Harris. Now Crowell has turned his skills to a holiday record, for the all-original Christmas Everywhere, with no versions of the familiar Yuletide standards to be found. Like JD McPherson's Socks, it's a singer-songwriter/Americana record that just happens to be all about Christmas. Crowell is definitely not delivering a set of sugar-coated confections on Christmas Everywhere. True to form, he explores many sides of the holiday, including joy.
Here are the Top 30 new album releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending Dec. 16, 2018:
1 JD McPherson- Socks
2 Rodney Crowell- Christmas Everywhere
3 Cat Power- Wanderer
4 Kurt Vile- Bottle It In
5 Elvis Costello & The Imposters- Look Now
6 J Mascis- Elastic Days
7 St. Vincent- MassEducation
8 Charles Bradley- Black Velvet
9 Bob Dylan- More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14
10 The Nude Party- The Nude Party
11 Molly Burch- First Flower
12 Georgia Anne Muldrow- Overload
13 My Brightest Diamond- A Million And One
14 Mitski- Be The Cowboy
15 Spiritualized- And Nothing Hurt
16 The Ting Tings- The Black Light
17 Phosphorescent- C'est La Vie
18 Grapetooth- Grapetooth
19 Bottle Rockets- Bit Logic
20 Ty Segall- Fudge Sandwich
21 Metric- Art Of Doubt
22 Valley Maker- Rhododendron
23 The Monkees- Christmas Party
24 Jim James- Uniform Clarity
25 Interpol- Marauder
26 Low- Double Negative
27 The Band Of Heathens- A Message From The People Revisited
28 Ian Sweet- Crush Crusher
29 Gold Star- Uppers & Downers
30 Slothrust- The Pact
