Features
Monday, May 11 2009
Commit: An Interview with Steve Earle
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.
Monday, September 24 2007
Goodbye Guitar Town: An Interview with Steve Earle
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.
Friday, July 20 2007
Part 5: Public Enemy to Dixie Chicks (1989-2006)
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!
Columns
Monday, August 8 2011
Steve Earle's 'I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive'
A been-there-lived-it-attitude and street-level redemption, all propelled by a songwriter's/storyteller's lyrical and narrative knack.
Reviews
Monday, July 25 2011
Play Me Some Mountain Music: The Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2011, Part 1
Four days of sun, banjos, snow, Mumfords, fiddles, and rock gods at 10,000 feet.
Monday, April 25 2011
Steve Earle: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
This Hank-referencing album replays a variety of styles Earle mastered long ago, from Celtic-flecked folk to turbo-powered country rock to reflective thought pieces, but it's questionable whether he's assembled the best of his past styles here.
Monday, May 11 2009
Steve Earle: Townes
A distinctively Earle-stamped tribute to one of the greatest American songwriters of all time.
Tuesday, September 25 2007
Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade
Earle sheds the southern sweat on his new record, and gives listeners a more metropolitan, but still solid, sound.
Friday, December 15 2006
Steve Earle: The Definitive Collection: 1983-1987
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.
Blogs
Friday, December 18 2009
Slipped Disc: Steve Earle - Townes
Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list, but at least one of our writers loves.
Friday, June 5 2009
Steve Earle - "Colorado Girl" (Live on Letterman) (video)
Steve Earle pays tribute to Townes Van Zandt, his friend and mentor, on the
Monday, April 20 2009
Steve Earle - "To Live Is to Fly" (MP3)
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…
News
Wednesday, May 18 2011
'My strength is a yarn,' says songwriter and author Steve Earle
Describing Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive as a story about a skid row junkie abortionist haunted by the ghost of Hank Williams may work as a dust jacket blurb. But it doesn't begin to reveal the depth of the singer-songwriter's debut novel.
Thursday, March 24 2011
Steve Earle explores myth, reality and Hank Williams' ghost in his first novel
LOS ANGELES — It's tempting to read Steve Earle's first novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 256 pp., $26,…
Friday, May 2 2008
Roots rocker Steve Earle gets worked up over politics, money, addictions
"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…
Wednesday, March 12 2008
Steve Earle and Allison Moorer take their marriage on the road after resettling in New York City
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…
