Country and Americana artist Rodney Crowell describes his twentieth studio album, 'Airline Highway,' as "a document of falling in love with the musicians I play with." The album brims with energy and demonstrates how Crowell, with a career spanning over fifty years, remains open to new influences. He collaborated with emerging artists like Lukas Nelson, Ashley McBryde, Charlie Starr, and sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe. The songs reflect themes of love, loss, and rediscovery, as Crowell, along with producer and guitarist Tyler Bryant, pushed creative boundaries between their Nashville studios and the atmospheric Dockside Studio in Louisiana. The environment—the heat, the river, the memories—gave the recordings a raw, vibrant quality, merging past and present.