Fate's Right Hand is the twelfth studio 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 on August 16, 2005 via Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

. The album includes the singles "The Obscenity Prayer" and "Say You Love Me".

Critical reception

Thom Jurek of Allmusic gave the album four stars out of five, calling it a "natural extension" of Crowell's last two albums, The Houston Kid

The Houston Kid

The Houston Kid is the 10th album by American country music singer Rodney Crowell. It was released through Sugar Hill in 2001. The album includes the single "I Walk the Line Revisited", recorded in collaboration with Johnny Cash, which peaked at number 61 on the Hot Country Songs charts in late...

and Fate's Right Hand

Fate's Right Hand

Fate's Right Hand is the eleventh studio album by American country music singer Rodney Crowell. It was released on July 29, 2003 via Epic Records. The album includes Crowell's last charting single, "Earthbound", which spent one week at the number 60 position on Hot Country Songs.-Critical...

. He also praised the album for "dig[ging] deep into social and political consciousness."

Track listing

All songs written by Rodney Crowell except "Shelter from the Storm", written by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

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Technical

• Tracy Baskette-Fleaner — art direction, design
• Peter Coleman — producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , recording, mixing
• Donivan Cowart — additional recording
• Rodney Crowell — producer
• Brandon Epps — recording assistant
• John Grady — executive producer
• Deb Haus — art director
• Dawn Nepp — production assistant
• Thomas Petillo — photography
• Jennifer Tsar — photography

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	37
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	12