Steve Earle

[VanillaGrl]

Terry - I do soooo love 'Out in the Parking Lot' *sigh*

All things crossed here for you to get the interviews with Steve Earle and Lyle!

And thank you for sharing...

[hawaiiboy]

I enjoyed reading your article Terry...thanks for sharing with us

[East Texas Parrothead]

I enjoyed reading your article Terry...thanks for sharing with us

Thank YOU, Kevin, for sharing your music with me ... I was listening to the show with Clark, Townes and Earle last night on the way home.

[hawaiiboy]

I enjoyed reading your article Terry...thanks for sharing with us

Thank YOU, Kevin, for sharing your music with me ... I was listening to the show with Clark, Townes and Earle last night on the way home.

You are very welcome........I really like that show

[conched]

I enjoyed reading your article Terry...thanks for sharing with us

Thank YOU, Kevin, for sharing your music with me ... I was listening to the show with Clark, Townes and Earle last night on the way home.

Is that the Live at the Bluebird one? I'll have to go find that one on the shelf somewhere.

[East Texas Parrothead]

I enjoyed reading your article Terry...thanks for sharing with us

Thank YOU, Kevin, for sharing your music with me ... I was listening to the show with Clark, Townes and Earle last night on the way home.

Is that the Live at the Bluebird one? I'll have to go find that one on the shelf somewhere.

Yes. I love it.

Nancy: I hope you're sitting down. I am going to get an interview - phinally - with WAR. Check out the Songwriter's Sojourn thread. *I'm about to pee my pants.*

[conched]

Wooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooo! Terry, that is wonderful!

I'm going out for a walk with Steve, Guy and Townes. I'll check out the thread soon...and I have to read your article yet too. You are one lucky chick. Lucky and blessed!

[Frank4]

Big Steve Earle fan here, I really like "Townes"

[East Texas Parrothead]

Big Steve Earle fan here, I really like "Townes"

Hey, Frank4. I saw him in Dallas this summer .... he just stood up there and opened a vein. Loved his performance. Hope to see Justin Townes in February when he comes to Dallas. His work is very good, too.

Lyle did "Loretta" last night ... didn't mention Townes, which was surprising, because he talked about Guy Clark, Vince Bell, Eric Taylor and Tom (I think) Elskes ... it was a great cover of the tune.

[East Texas Parrothead]

Congratulations, Steve Earle, for your Grammy nomination

BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM - TOWNES

Oh, yeah, baby.

[hawaiiboy]

Congratulations, Steve Earle, for your Grammy nomination

BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM - TOWNES

Oh, yeah, baby.

I am not a big fan of things like the Grammys....but this is
very well deserved

[East Texas Parrothead]

Best Contemporary Folk Album - TOWNES

Awwwwrighttttt!!!!!

[Tiki Torches]

From American Songwriter:

Steve Earle Readies New Album, Novel: I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive



By Evan Schlansky

On April 26, New West Records will release I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, the new, T Bone Burnett-produced studio album from Steve Earle. The album, which derives its name from a Hank Williams song, is the first collection of new material from Earle since 2007’s Grammy-winning Washington Square Serenade.

“They are all, as far as I can tell, about mortality in one way or the other; death as a mystery rather than a punctuation mark or at least, a comma rather than a period,” writes Earle of the new songs in the album’s liner notes.

Two of the album’s tracks (“God is God” and “I Am a Wanderer”) were covered by Joan Baez on the 2008 Earle-produced album, Day After Tomorrow. “Heaven Or Hell” is a duet with wife Allison Moorer, and “The City” previously appeared in the HBO show Treme. (Earle will be rejoining the cast of Treme this year for the show’s second season.)

I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive is also the name of Earle’s debut novel, which is due May 12 via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It tells the story of Doc Ebersole, a doctor who is haunted by the ghost of his former patient Hank Williams.

I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive track Listing:

1. Waitin’ On The Sky
2. Little Emperor
3. The Gulf of Mexico
4. Molly – O
5. God is God
6. Meet Me In The Alleyway
7. Every Part of Me
8. Lonely Are The Free
9. Heaven or Hell (with Allison Moorer)
10. I Am A Wanderer
11. This City

[East Texas Parrothead]

Yippety, Skippety. This is news we can use!

[Tiki Torches]

NPR has a Steve Earle Tiny Desk concert that you can watch (and/or download) here. His new album, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive comes out tomorrow (as does Emmylou Harris' new one, Hard Bargain).

[Tiki Torches]

New interview with Steve Earle from Option magazine:

He’ll never get out of this world alive…



By Al Maginnes

…but when he sheds this mortal coil, Steve Earle — the legendary singer, songwriter, playwright, actor, activist and now novelist — will likely be clean and sober, and he’ll definitely leave behind a prodigious body of work. Award-winning poet Al Maginnes talks to Earle about his new album and book, and his amazing transformation from a drug-damaged songwriting genius to a clear, focused and tireless renaissance man.

Steve Earle is a hard dog to keep under the porch. In the quarter-century since his debut Guitar Town burst out of the gates, Earle has had a number of careers. He began as the teenaged “kid” of the Townes Van Zandt-Guy Clark songwriting nexus in Austin and Nashville, playing on Clark’s classic 1975 song “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train.” But by the late ’80s, the excesses of Earle’s early career as a country-singing road dog had evaporated into several years of drug haze that saw him serve a brief jail sentence in the early ’90s. His renaissance was spectacular, and since 1995 he’s worked tirelessly – as a singer, songwriter, political activist, playwright, actor and, in his most recent incarnation, a novelist. In 2005 he married fellow singer/songwriter Allison Moorer; the couple’s first child, John Henry Earle, turned one in April. When I caught up with him, Earle had just released his new album, I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive (named for the great Hank Williams song), and his novel of the same name was poised for publication.

The album explores Earle’s acoustic and electric leanings. Never one to stick with a single style, he’s written songs over the years that were at home on both country and rock radio, recorded a set of original bluegrass music with the Del McCoury Band, and even used a DJ on his tour for 2007′s Washington Square Serenade. The new album, produced by T Bone Burnett, is a series of meditations on life, mortality and the boundaries of human behavior.

The novel, while not a companion piece, explores many of the same issues. Its protagonist, Doc Ebersole, is a morphine addict and back-alley abortionist who was drinking buddies with Hank Williams and was, in fact, in the car with Williams when he died. The book is set in the early ‘60s in San Antonio, Texas, around the time of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and covers everything from addiction to redemption. Like the narrative of his music and life, the novel embraces the contradictions that make Steve Earle one of the most important and interesting artists of the Information Age.

To read the interview click here.

[Tiki Torches]

I was already a fan of Steve Earle's prior to Copperhead Road coming out thanks to tunes like "Someday" but this really solidified my fandom. Not to mention, Mr. Earle really took his unique mixture of country and rock to a whole new level with this one.

[weirdo0521]

I've been enjoying his spots on Treme

[Tiki Torches]

I've been enjoying his spots on Treme

I still haven't seen that (or Wired) but a friend has offered to lend me his collections so I can catch up. I may just have to take him up on that. I did see him in the movie Leaves of Grass recently. I enjoyed his performance but over all, I can't say I really liked the movie. Lots of bad acting even from folks like Ed Norton who's supposed to be a good actor.

[WinchWench]

I just got my copy of the book I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive in the mail and am looking forward to reading it! I'll second an earlier recommendation in this thread for the Heartworn Highways DVD. It has some great clips of a very young Steve Earle and just some all around great music from Guy, Townes, and all of those guys.

I was looking back through my archives the other day and found a video I took of my son playing The Mercenary Song. It was taken when he first started learning to play and had a cheesy $20 Walmart guitar. He sounds even better now with more experience and an upgrade to a sweet Little Martin LX1E, but I still get a kick out of how into it the kid was at the time and I hope Steve would approve.