Diamonds & Dirt

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)".

For the Brian Robertson album, see Diamonds and Dirt.
"Crazy Baby" redirects here. For the 1960 jazz album by Jimmy Smith, see Crazy! Baby. For the Ozzy Osbourne song, "Crazy Babies", see No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album).
Diamonds & Dirt
Studio album by
Rodney Crowell
ReleasedMarch 30, 1988
Recorded1987
StudioEmerald Sound Studios, Nashville, TN
GenreCountry
Length34:54
LabelColumbia
ProducerRodney Crowell
Tony Brown
Rodney Crowell chronology
Street Language
(1986)		 Diamonds & Dirt
(1988)		 The Rodney Crowell Collection
(1989)
Singles from Diamonds & Dirt
  1. "It's Such a Small World"
    Released: January 1988
  2. "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried"
    Released: May 1988
  3. "She's Crazy for Leavin'"
    Released: September 1988
  4. "After All This Time"
    Released: January 1989
  5. "Above and Beyond"
    Released: June 1989
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

The album was reissued by Columbia Legacy, with three bonus tracks.

Production

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]

Critical reception

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]

Track listing

All songs written by Rodney Crowell except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Crazy Baby"Crowell, Will Jennings3:06
2."I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" 3:17
3."She's Crazy for Leavin'"Crowell, Guy Clark3:16
4."After All This Time" 4:28
5."I Know You're Married" 3:31
6."Above and Beyond"Harlan Howard2:28
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, Jennings3:07
10."The Last Waltz"Crowell, Jennings5:21
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.

Personnel

Charts

References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. p. 644.
  3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 170–171.
  4. "Rodney Crowell | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. LONGSDORF, AMY. "WITH 'DIAMONDS,' COUNTRY'S RODNEY CROWELL GETS THROUGH THE ROUGH". mcall.com.
  6. "Rodney Crowell: Singing From A Dark, Raucous Place". NPR.org.
  7. Anon. "Country concert series opens soon." Aiken (SC) Standard 2 Apr 1989: 11
  8. "Flashback: Rodney Crowell Sings 'She's Crazy for Leavin" Inside an Airport". Rolling Stone. April 8, 2019.
  9. "Rodney Crowell – Diamonds and Dirt". No Depression. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  10. "Rodney Crowell: Diamonds & Dirt". The A.V. Club. 19 April 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  11. "The Last (Album) Roundup". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. October 31, 1988 – via Google Books.
  12. "Rodney Crowell Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  13. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  14. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  15. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1990". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  • Diamonds & Dirt (cassette liner notes). Rodney Crowell. Columbia Records. 1988. 44076.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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