Steve Earle began his February 7 show in North Adams, MA, with a handful of new songs for his about-to-be-released album Terraplane, and he’s got a serious case of the blues. The news of his divorce from his seventh wife, singer […]
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Once, hunters and their tribes and families roamed and thrived through the plains and deep woods of America. Then the white man came, and eventually, after many bloody physical and political battles, came what Johnny Cash called “bitter tears.” I […]
Steve Earle – 12/7/14 at 11th Street Bar in NY, NY – Photo by Rosie Cohe
The late Townes Van Zandt was the best songwriter in the whole wide world, Steve Earle said in an oft-cited quote, “and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Seventeen years after Van […]
God bless Steve Earle. You have to love an artist who feels compelled to write about a subject that consumes him, even as he risks marginalizing himself even further in the marketplace. The more narrowly Earle focuses his music politically, […]
“Joan Baez could have been in this song,” Steve Earle says as he picks the gentle arpeggios of “Christmas In Washington” on his new live double-disc release. He goes on to explain that she is a hero to him because […]
As is characteristic of much that Steve Earle has ever created, and much that’s American, his new album Jerusalem begins with images of inescapable destruction and death (“Every tower ever built tumbles”), and ends, nevertheless, with an optimistic vision of […]
Somewhere along the way, Steve Earle started talking about his albums in terms of which box they fit in. “This is gonna be a bluegrass record,” he’d say, or “Next time I’m gonna make a rock record.” Trouble is, Earle’s […]
The suspicion lingers that somewhere in Nashville — a front porch, a living room, a converted garage with a well-stocked refrigerator — the best songwriters sit and trade works-in-progress late into the night, and magic happens. Well, some of ’em […]
Depending on how you keep track — that is, depending on how tight you want to wear your documentarian-geek beanie — Transcendental Blues is Steve Earle’s tenth album. Beginning in 1986, he blew the doors off Nashville with Guitar Town, […]
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