The Houston Kid is the 10th album by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....

. It was released through Sugar Hill in 2001. The album includes the single "I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line

"I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. It was performed with the help of Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins, two mechanics that his brother introduced him to following his discharge from the Air Force. Cash and his wife, Vivian, were living in Memphis, Tennessee,...

 Revisited", recorded in collaboration with Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, which peaked at number 61 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts in late 1998.

Thom Jurek of Allmusic rated the album with a full five-star rating.

Track listing

All songs written by Rodney Crowell except where noted.

1. "Telephone Road" – 3:52
2. "The Rock of My Soul" – 4:50
3. "Why Don't We Talk About It" – 3:35
4. "I Wish It Would Rain" – 3:28
5. "Wandering Boy" – 5:57
6. "I Walk The Line (Revisited)" (Crowell, Johnny Cash
   Johnny Cash
   John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
   
   ) – 3:51
7. "Highway 17" – 4:54
8. "U Don't Know How Much I Hate U" (Crowell, Steve Lukather) – 3:37
9. "Banks of the Old Bandera" – 3:41
10. "Topsy Turvy" – 3:47
11. "I Know Love Is All I Need" – 5:20

Personnel

• Pat Buchanan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   - Vocals
• Peter Coleman - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Steve Conn - Organ
• John Cowan
  John Cowan
  John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival...
  
   - Vocals
• Donivan Cowart - Engineer
• Chad Cromwell
  Chad Cromwell
  Chad Cromwell is an American drummer, best known for his work with Neil Young and with Mark Knopfler.- Personal life :Cromwell was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and three years later moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee...
  
   - Drums
• Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
  
   - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion Vocals
• Jim Dineen - Engineer
• Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
• John Hobbs - Organ, Keyboards, Sampling
• John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...
  
   - electric guitar
• Tim Lauer - Keyboards
• Hunter Lee - Pipe
• Dan Leffler - Engineer, Second Engineer
• Paul Leim - Percussion, Drums
• Charlie McCoy
  Charlie McCoy
  Charles "Charlie" Ray McCoy is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. In his career, McCoy has backed several notable musicians including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley and Ween. He has also recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records...
  
   - Harmonica
• Greg Morrow - Drums
• Michael Rhodes - Bass
• Vince Santoro - Vocals
• Steuart Smith
  Steuart Smith
  Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
  
   - Harmonica, Mandolin, Autoharp, electric guitar, Harmonium, Producer
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
  Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
  
  - piano
• David Thoener - Mixing
• Robby Turner - Dobro, steel guitar
• Kenny Vaughn - Flamenco Guitar
• Ian Wallace - Drums

• Produced by Peter Coleman

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	32
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums	19