Commit: An Interview with Steve Earle

By Stuart Henderson

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. [11 May 2009]

Goodbye Guitar Town: An Interview with Steve Earle

By Michael Franco

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. [24 September 2007]

Part 5: Public Enemy to Dixie Chicks (1989-2006)

By PopMatters Staff

The brave, early activists of the US AIDS movement knew that Silence = Death. Throughout history it's "Put up", we're told, "Shut up", we're threatened. Praise to those who set their protest to song and act up! [20 July 2007]

Steve Earle: Townes

By Jayson Harsin

A distinctively Earle-stamped tribute to one of the greatest American songwriters of all time. [11 May 2009]

Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade

By Matthew Fiander

Earle sheds the southern sweat on his new record, and gives listeners a more metropolitan, but still solid, sound. [25 September 2007]

Steve Earle: The Definitive Collection: 1983-1987

By Michael Franco

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. [15 December 2006]

Steve Earle: Live at Montreux 2005

By Michael Franco

While a no-frills affair, this DVD shows Earle in peak form taking aim at those in power. [23 August 2006]

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

By Zeth Lundy

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. [5 January 2005]

Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts… Now

By Hank Kalet

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.

Steve Earle: Just an American Boy [DVD]

By Adrien Begrand

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. [8 March 2004]

Steve Earle: Just an American Boy: The Audio Documentary

By Adrien Begrand

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

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.

Steve Earle: Jerusalem

By Adrien Begrand

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. [4 October 2002]

Steve Earle: Sidetracks

By Andrew Gilstrap

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

Steve Earle: Guitar Town (Expanded Edition)

By Jason MacNeil

Without this brilliant effort, none of the others would’ve been possible. A modern classic.

Doghouse Roses: Stories by Steve Earle

By John Kenyon

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.'" [4 June 2001]

Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues

By Mitchell Moore

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.

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

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

Roots rocker Steve Earle gets worked up over politics, money, addictions [2 May 2008]

Steve Earle and Allison Moorer take their marriage on the road after resettling in New York City [12 March 2008]