Diamonds & Dirt
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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.[5] It was produced by Tony Brown and Crowell.[6][7]
Critical reception
The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "a stirring treatise on the quest for understanding and balance in a relationship."[6] 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."[8] 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'."[9] Spin deemed it "a traditional country record [on which Crowell] ends ups rocking harder than ever before."[10]
Track listing
All songs written by Rodney Crowell, except where noted.
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AOnly included on Legacy re-issue.
Personnel
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- Barry Beckett – piano, organ
- Rosanne Cash – background vocals
- Rodney Crowell – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
- Glen Duncan – fiddle
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Vince Gill – background vocals
- Russ Kunkel – drums
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle, mandolin
- Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
- Vince Santoro – background vocals
- Preston Smith – harmonica, background vocals
- Steuart Smith – electric guitar[11]
Charts
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