Jazz Articles about Dan Knobler

About Dan Knobler

Album Review

Rodney Crowell's creative output in recent years has been the work of a man coming to terms with the circumstances of life in such a way acceptance takes precedence over resignation. Thus, it only makes sense that, in the wake of Triage (New West, 2021), The Chicago Sessions (New West, 2023) and Airline Highway (New West, 2025), the former bandleader for Emmylou Harris would deign to exhume a previously-recorded but unreleased album and give it the light of ...

Album Review

Rodney Crowell: Triage

by Doug Collette
August 29, 2021

Even if the listener isn't aware of Rodney Crowell's personal history in recent years, the veteran songwriter and recording artist may still sound a bit defensive during his metaphysical rumination that closes Triage. In the end, however, “This Body Isn't All There Is To Who I Am" is a logical, perhaps even inevitable, culmination of the reflections and observations that precede it. As such, it is a perfectly fitting conclusion to an album with a title that refers to the ...