Tarpaper Sky

Tarpaper Sky
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 15, 2014
GenreAmericana, country music
Length42:11
LabelNew West
ProducerRodney Crowell, Steuart Smith, Dan Knobler
Rodney Crowell chronology
Old Yellow Moon
(2013)
Tarpaper Sky
(2014)
The Traveling Kind
(2015)

Tarpaper Sky is the fourteenth solo studio album by Rodney Crowell. Crowell co-produced the album with long-time collaborator Steuart Smith and Dan Knobler. Tarpaper Sky follows Crowell's Grammy-winning duet album with Emmylou Harris, Old Yellow Moon and is his first release on New West.

Tarpaper Sky is made up of entirely original Crowell compositions. Doug Freeman of the Austin Chronicle credits Crowell for "balancing ballads and bar room stomps ... with his characteristic sense of autobiographical detail and precarious mortality."[1]

The track, "God I'm Missing You," originally appeared on the 2012 Vanguard Records release Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell. Lucinda Williams performed the song on that compilation album. The phrase "Tarpaper Sky" appears in a line in that song.

  1. ^ Freeman, Doug (March 14, 2014). "Rodney Crowell, Tarpaper Sky". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved April 5, 2014.