Close Ties With Autographed CD Booklet fg_Catalog Number_B000152801 and drummer Mark Stepro

and drummer Mark Stepro

and embarked on a triumphant South African tour followed

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alto saxophonist Jackie McLean

Close Ties With Autographed CD Booklet fg_Catalog Number_B000152801 and drummer Mark SteproRodney Crowells new album, Close Ties, demonstrates his strengths as a songwriter and illustrates how he has learned to balance personal recollection, literary sophistication, and his profound musical reach. Close Ties is at once his most intimate record and his most accessible, the product of years of understanding the ways songs can enterand be entered bylife. Its a loose concept album, you could say, Crowell says. And the concept is related to how