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Steve Earle - “Colorado Girl” (Live on Letterman) (video)

by Sarah Zupko

[5.Jun.09] :. Steve Earle pays tribute to Townes Van Zandt, his friend and mentor, on...

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Steve Earle: Townes

by Jayson Harsin

[11.May.09] :. A distinctively Earle-stamped tribute to one of the greatest American songwriters of all time.

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Commit: An Interview with Steve Earle

by Stuart Henderson

[11.May.09] :. Earle digs through a mutual past for a new album of Townes Van Zandt covers, and he explains what it was like knowing, and being heckled by, the songwriter himself.

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Steve Earle - “To Live Is to Fly” (MP3)

by Sarah Zupko

[20.Apr.09] :. Late Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt was both a friend to Steve Earle also a massive influence on his artistic development. Fourteen years ago Earle said, “Van Zandt is the best...

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In Prison My Whole Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Dec.08] :. In Prison My Whole Life works through the contexts and details of Mumia Abu Jamal's experience, connecting it to other moments in recent American history.

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Slacker Uprising

by Anthony Henriques

[28.Oct.08] :. With substandard picture quality and a lack of true eye-opening material, this will be regarded as a minor work in an otherwise impressive film canon.

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The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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Roots rocker Steve Earle gets worked up over politics, money, addictions

by Thor Christensen [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[2.May.08] :. “I Ain’t Ever Satisfied” isn’t just the name of a Steve Earle song. For years, it was the story of his life. Divorced six times and addicted to crack and heroin, he was the...

 

Steve Earle and Allison Moorer take their marriage on the road after resettling in New York City

by Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[12.Mar.08] :. After seven failed attempts, Steve Earle might have finally found a way to make marriage work: He brought his new wife on the road with him. The alt-country hero and outspoken radical married fellow...

 

Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade

by Matthew Fiander

[25.Sep.07] :. Earle sheds the southern sweat on his new record, and gives listeners a more metropolitan, but still solid, sound.

 

Goodbye Guitar Town: An Interview with Steve Earle

by Michael Franco

[24.Sep.07] :. Steve Earle might be quieting down, but he still has plenty to say. PopMatters talks with Earle about his new album, New York and much more.

 

Steve Earle: The Definitive Collection: 1983-1987

by Michael Franco

[15.Dec.06] :. Summarizing Steve Earle’s amazing career in one disc just isn't possible, but you can't go wrong with any compilation of the master.

 

Steve Earle: Live at Montreux 2005

by Michael Franco

[23.Aug.06] :. While a no-frills affair, this DVD shows Earle in peak form taking aim at those in power.

 

Steve Earle: Live From Austin TX [CD and DVD]

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Jan.05] :. Clean and sober, Earle's prolific string of seven albums in nine years has been nothing short of masterful. It has also usurped the first half of his career: Earle, formerly competent songwriter, now makes sonically adventurous records with political and social conscience.

 
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Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts… Now

by Hank Kalet

[1.Sep.04] :. The release of this record two and a half months before we have to enter the voting booths should offer solace and inspiration to those ready to act.

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Steve Earle: Just an American Boy [DVD]

by Adrien Begrand

[8.Mar.04] :. Amos Poe had a terrific chance to put together the definitive profile of an artist who is at the peak of his career, producing great music, prose, and drama at such a prolific rate as he'd never done before.

 

Steve Earle: Just an American Boy: The Audio Documentary

by Adrien Begrand

[23.Oct.03] :. Just an American Boy cements Earle’s status as one of the most vital, brave singer-songwriters of the past couple of decades, and also one of the most prolific, as this album is his seventh stalwart effort in the past eight years.

 

Steve Earle: The Best of Steve Earle (20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection)

by Chip O'Brien

[6.Oct.03] :. There is nothing new offered on this collection, no song or version of a song that cannot be found elsewhere, on one of the many “best of” or “essential” Steve Earle albums.

 
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Steve Earle: Jerusalem

by Adrien Begrand

[4.Oct.02] :. Steve Earle has always been a guy who is never afraid to shoot his mouth off, and with 'Jerusalem', his timing is perfect, as his own razor-sharp words slice through the shallow slop of almost all 9-11-inspired music that has come out to date.

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Steve Earle: Sidetracks

by Andrew Gilstrap

[18.Jun.02] :. Sidetracks is Earle’s collection of what he calls “stray songs”, songs that never made it to albums, or which can only be found on obscure compilations, soundtracks, or import editions of his albums.

 

Steve Earle

by Jordan Kessler

[1.May.02] :. S E T    L I S T Baby Let Me Follow You DownSteve’s Last RambleTom Ames’ PrayerTaneytownNow She’s GoneGoodbyeSouth Nashville BluesCCKMPSo Different...

 
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Steve Earle: Guitar Town (Expanded Edition)

by Jason MacNeil

[11.Apr.02] :. Without this brilliant effort, none of the others would’ve been possible. A modern classic.

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Doghouse Roses: Stories by Steve Earle

by John Kenyon

[4.Jun.01] :. On first blush, it would seem Steve Earle might need more than a doghouse rose to make up for foisting this book on his fans. By the end, you realize the book 'itself' is a doghouse rose. 'It ain't much,' you can imagine him saying as he hands it over, 'but I did it for you.'"

 

Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues

by Mitchell Moore

[20.Jun.00] :. Steve Earle, once all but given up for dead, metaphorically if not literally, has been riding a white hot hand since returning from the long dark night of drug addiction and musical oblivion.