Bonus Mixtape: Happy Birthday, Rodney Crowell

Celebrating one of America's greatest songwriters with a mixtape of just some of his most powerful songs.

Whether you grew up listening to country or rock in the ‘70s and ‘80s, chances are you’ve heard a Rodney Crowell song. For his 74th birthday, here’s a mixtape I threw together of 14 of his songs that I keep returning to over the years from most every signpost in his long career.

Happy birthday to a Texas, and American, original.