LISTEN: Rodney Crowell Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week

Join us this week for a special archive edition of Mountain Stage from 2021. Host Kathy Mattea welcomes Rodney Crowell, Colin Hay, Amy Speace, Nobody’s Girl, and Jordan Tice. Tune in starting Friday, Aug. 15 on these NPR stations.

In his fifth appearance on Mountain Stage, renowned singer and songwriter Rodney Crowell brought a stacked band of Nashville players and songs from his album, Triage. Accompanied by Eamon McLoughlin on fiddle and harmonica, Catherine Marx on piano, Glen Caruba on drums, and Zachariah Hickman on bass, the influential Crowell is in fine form. Since this show was recorded in the wake of the global pandemic, many of the guests were performing for in-person audiences for the first time.

Our Song of the Week is Crowell’s performance of “Weight of the World.”

We’re also treated to live performances from Men at Work front man Colin Hay and his band, who perform songs from their album of cover songs called I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, as well as songs from his forthcoming, at that time, album Now And The Evermore. Plus, we’ll hear sets from literary songwriter and powerful singer Amy Speace, power-trio Nobody’s Girl which features the combined forces of Rebecca Loebe, Grace Pettis, and BettySoo, and an acoustic set from guitarist extraordinaire Jordan Tice. Our host Kathy Mattea can also be heard paying tribute to Nanci Griffith, who had recently passed away at the time of this recording, with a performance of Griffith’s “Love At the Five and Dime.”