# Rodney Crowell discography

The discography of Rodney Crowell, an American country music artist, consists of 17 studio albums and 39 singles. Although he first charted on Hot Country Songs in 1978, he did not reach top 40 on that chart until 1981, with "Stars on the Water". His 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt produced five consecutive number-one singles, the only ones of his career.

## Studio albums
### 1970s–1980s

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US | AUS | CAN Country | Certifications |
| Ain't Living Long Like This | Release date: 1978 Label: Warner Bros. | — | — | — | — | |
| But What Will the Neighbors Think | Release date: 1980 Label: Warner Bros. | 64 | 155 | — | — | |
| Rodney Crowell | Release date: 1981 Label: Warner Bros. | 47 | 105 | 63 | — | |
| Street Language | Release date: 1986 label: Columbia | 38 | 177 | — | — | |
| Diamonds & Dirt | Release date: March 30, 1988 Label: Columbia | 8 | — | — | 9 | CAN: Gold US: Gold |
| Keys to the Highway | Release date: October 10, 1989 Label: Columbia | 15 | 180 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||||

### 1990s–2000s

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US | US Heat | US Indie | CAN Country |
| Life Is Messy | Release date: May 19, 1992 Label: Columbia | 30 | 155 | — | — | 9 |
| Let the Picture Paint Itself | Release date: May 10, 1994 Label: MCA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jewel of the South | Release date: June 20, 1995 Label: MCA | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Houston Kid | Release date: February 13, 2001 Label: Sugar Hill | 32 | — | — | 19 | — |
| Fate's Right Hand | Release date: July 29, 2003 Label: DMZ / Epic | 29 | — | 14 | — | — |
| The Outsider | Release date: August 16, 2005 Label: Columbia | 37 | — | 12 | — | — |
| Sex & Gasoline | Release date: September 2, 2008 Label: Yep Roc | 38 | — | — | 35 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||||

### 2010s–2020s

| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Sales |
| Title | Album details | US Country | US | US Indie | Sales |
| Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell | Release date: June 5, 2012 Label: Vanguard | 32 | — | 37 | |
| Old Yellow Moon (with Emmylou Harris) | Release date: February 26, 2013 Label: Nonesuch | 4 | 29 | — | |
| Tarpaper Sky | Release date: April 15, 2014 Label: New West | 25 | 168 | 32 | |
| The Traveling Kind (with Emmylou Harris) | Release date: May 12, 2015 Label: Nonesuch | 8 | 78 | — | |
| Close Ties | Release date: March 31, 2017 Label: New West | 28 | 138 | — | US: 11,600 |
| Acoustic Classics | Release date: July 13, 2018 Label: RC1 | — | — | — | |
| Christmas Everywhere | Release date: November 2, 2018 Label: New West | — | — | — | US: 1,700 |
| Texas | Release date: August 15, 2019 Label: RC1 | — | — | 13 | US: 9,400 |
| Triage | Release date: July 23, 2021 Label: RC1 | — | — | — | |
| The Chicago Sessions | Release date: May 5, 2023 Label: New West | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||

## Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country |
| The Rodney Crowell Collection | Release date: August 8, 1989 Label: Warner Bros. | 65 |
| Greatest Hits | Release date: November 2, 1993 Label: Columbia | — |
| Soul Searchin' | Release date: December 1, 1995 Label: Sony Music Special Products | — |
| Super Hits | Release date: 1995 Label: Columbia | — |
| The Essential Rodney Crowell | Release date: November 16, 2004 Label: Columbia / Legacy | — |
| The Platinum Collection | Release date: June 26, 2006 Label: Rhino | — |
| Playlist: The Very Best of Rodney Crowell | Release date: May 29, 2012 Label: Columbia / Legacy | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||

## Singles
### 1970s–1980s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | US | US AC | AUS | CAN Country | Album |
| 1978 | "Elvira" | 95 | — | — | — | — | Ain't Living Long Like This |
| 1978 | "Song for the Life" | — | — | — | — | — | Ain't Living Long Like This |
| 1979 | "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" | 90 | — | — | — | — | Ain't Living Long Like This |
| 1980 | "Ashes by Now" | 78 | 37 | 46 | — | — | But What Will the Neighbors Think |
| 1980 | "Ain't No Money" | — | — | — | — | — | But What Will the Neighbors Think |
| 1980 | "Here Comes the 80's" | — | — | — | — | — | But What Will the Neighbors Think |
| 1981 | "Stars on the Water" | 30 | — | — | 39 | 21 | Rodney Crowell |
| 1982 | "Victim or a Fool" | 34 | — | — | — | — | Rodney Crowell |
| 1986 | "Let Freedom Ring" | — | — | — | — | — | Street Language |
| 1986 | "When I'm Free Again" | 38 | — | — | — | — | Street Language |
| 1987 | "She Loves the Jerk" | 71 | — | — | — | — | Street Language |
| 1987 | "Looking for You" | 59 | — | — | — | — | Street Language |
| 1988 | "It's Such a Small World" (with Rosanne Cash) | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | Diamonds & Dirt |
| 1988 | "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | Diamonds & Dirt |
| 1988 | "She's Crazy for Leavin'" | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | Diamonds & Dirt |
| 1989 | "After All This Time" | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | Diamonds & Dirt |
| 1989 | "Above and Beyond" | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | Diamonds & Dirt |
| 1989 | "Many a Long & Lonesome Highway" | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | Keys to the Highway |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||||

### 1990s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | US AC | CAN Country | CAN | CAN AC | Album |
| 1990 | "If Looks Could Kill" | 6 | — | 4 | — | — | Keys to the Highway |
| 1990 | "My Past Is Present" | 22 | — | 12 | — | — | Keys to the Highway |
| 1990 | "Now That We're Alone" | 17 | — | 13 | — | — | Keys to the Highway |
| 1991 | "Things I Wish I'd Said" | 72 | — | — | — | — | Keys to the Highway |
| 1992 | "Lovin' All Night" | 10 | — | 9 | — | — | Life Is Messy |
| 1992 | "What Kind of Love" | 11 | 9 | 2 | 47 | 5 | Life Is Messy |
| 1992 | "It's Not for Me to Judge" | — | — | — | — | — | Life Is Messy |
| 1992 | "Let's Make Trouble" | — | — | 78 | — | — | Life Is Messy |
| 1993 | "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" | — | — | — | — | — | Greatest Hits |
| 1994 | "Let the Picture Paint Itself" | 60 | — | 50 | — | — | Let the Picture Paint Itself |
| 1994 | "Big Heart" | 75 | — | 70 | — | — | Let the Picture Paint Itself |
| 1994 | "I Don't Fall in Love So Easy" | — | — | — | — | — | Let the Picture Paint Itself |
| 1995 | "Please Remember Me" | 69 | — | — | — | — | Jewel of the South |
| 1998 | "I Walk the Line Revisited" (with Johnny Cash) | 61 | — | — | — | — | The Houston Kid |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||||

### 2000s–2020s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
| 2001 | "I Walk the Line Revisited" (with Johnny Cash; re-issue) | — | The Houston Kid |
| 2001 | "Why Don't We Talk About It" | — | The Houston Kid |
| 2003 | "Fate's Right Hand" | — | Fate's Right Hand |
| 2003 | "Earthbound" | 60 | Fate's Right Hand |
| 2005 | "The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)" | — | The Outsider |
| 2006 | "Say You Love Me" | — | The Outsider |
| 2008 | "Sex and Gasoline" | — | Sex and Gasoline |
| 2012 | "I'm a Mess" | — | Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell |
| 2017 | "It Ain't Over Yet" (featuring Rosanne Cash and John Paul White) | — | Close Ties |
| 2017 | "Tobacco Road" | — | A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk |
| 2018 | "Shake Your Money Maker" | — | Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James |
| 2019 | "Flatland Hillbillies" (featuring Randy Rogers and Lee Ann Womack) | — | Texas |
| 2021 | "Something Has to Change" | — | Triage |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

### As featured artist

| Year | Single | Album |
| 2011 | "Hard Time Movin' On" (David Bradley featuring Rodney Crowell) | Movin' On |

## Music videos

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1986 | "Let Freedom Ring" | David Hogan |
| 1988 | "It's Such a Small World" (with Rosanne Cash) | Edd Griles |
| 1988 | "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" | Bill Pope |
| 1989 | "After All This Time" | Bill Pope |
| 1989 | "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" | Bill Pope |
| 1990 | "If Looks Could Kill" | Wayne Miller |
| 1991 | "Things I Wish I'd Said" | |
| 1992 | "Lovin' All Night" | Joanne Gardner |
| 1993 | "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" | Joanne Gardner |
| 1994 | "Let the Picture Paint Itself" | Gerry Wenner |
| 1994 | "Big Heart" | Joanne Gardner/Steven Goldmann |
| 1995 | "Please Remember Me" | Bud Schaetzle |
| 2000 | "I Walk the Line Revisited" (with Johnny Cash) | Hannah Crowell/Stephen McCord/Dawn Nepp |
| 2003 | "Earthbound" | Nigel Dick |
| 2003 | "Fate's Right Hand" | Deb Haus/Jerad Sloan |
| 2008 | "Sex and Gasoline" | |
| 2016 | "It Ain't Over Yet" (with Rosanne Cash, John Paul White and Mickey Raphael) | |
| 2017 | "Nashville 1972" | Reid Long |