Steve Earle is set to release Townes, his highly anticipated follow up to the Grammy Award winning album Washington Square Serenade. The 15-song set is comprised of songs written by Earle s friend and mentor, the late singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt. Townes will also be available as a deluxe two-CD set, as well as double Limited Edition 180 gram vinyl.The album was produced by Earle at his home in Greenwich Village, at Sound Emporium and Room and Board in Nashville, TN and The Nest in Hollywood, CA. The track Lungs, was produced and mixed by the Dust Brothers John King and features Tom Mor... [Read More]
Anyone who can string together outcast clichés and make them as fresh and exciting as the songs that adorn Ain't Ever Satisfied has earned esteem. The anthology is really 1993's Essential Steve Earle plus 15 additional tracks, including live covers of "State Trooper," "Dead Flowers," and "She's About a Mover." The earlier best-of will suffice, if you can still find it, but the 2 CD updating is by no means a stretch. --Steven Stolder
Terraplane takes its title from the 1930s Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit model, which also inspired the Robert Johnson song “Terraplane Blues.” It is Earle’s 16th studio album since the release of his highly influential 1986 debut Guitar Town. As its title suggests, the album is very much a blues record, a third of which was written while Earle toured Europe alone for five weeks with just a guitar, a mandolin and a backpack. Earle, who was raised outside of San Antonio before migrating to Houston, offers about Texas blues, “There was Fort Worth where the model was Freddie King, an... [Read More]
In 1986, Steve Earle made a powerful enough entrance to mainstream country to establish himself for years to come. A decade later, he was someone else entirely. Earle, it turned out, was an artist far more complex than Nashville was accustomed to. When he did things the Music Row way, doors opened. But within a couple of years he began an unexpected 360 by embracing less fashionable musical forms, winning a near-lethal struggle with substance abuse and reinventing himself. As an artist courageously addressing serious social issues, he confronted matters that politically and socially conservati... [Read More]
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