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I love to Steve's music as well as Townes Van Zandt every day.......Gene

That's why we are here :-)

BTW all Steve's albums are my favourite ;-) I especially like The Hard Way and El Corazón somehow. 

Jerusalem (song and album) are absolutely brilliant. I use Jerusalem and John Walker Blues with my high school social studies classes. Steve Earle rules, man.

I've played Jerusalem, Galway Girl and Billy Austin Live.

Jerusalem got me my first ever request to play something again!

I just love it.

I also have played Transcendental Blues but it's an adaptation - I'm not very dextrous....

 
Take care everyone

Looking forward to seeing Steve in Liverpool in June

 

Ian

www.myspace.com/ianfranklinsadler


 

Being from a farming community  here in  Iowa,  "The Rain Came Down" and "Someday" have always hit home.  Although in my younger years "Angry Young Man" was me.

 

Tim 

 

The early years after Guitar Town were totally incredible live and the last 15 years of "comeback"albums all maintian a new and improved quality.  Steve is amazingly creative in his ability to transform to new, let's say attitudes each album but maintain the same crisp story telling character and voice.   So, for me all of Steve Earle's writing (including Dog House Roses) earns great respect.

But if I have to pick a favorite album....I will have to pick 2.  Guitar Town and El Corazon.

My favorite live experience is hearing the cover of the Stones "Dead Flowers" during the Exit 0 tour at Chicago's Park West Theater. 

tough but interesting to see who likes what...my personal favorites, in no particular order

Sometime She Forgets, Guitar Town, Good Ol' Boy, My Old Friend the Blues, Snake Oil, Ellis Unit One, Hometown Blues, Angel is the Devil, South Nashville Blues, Someday.

I guess I'm more into the older stuff.

I like all of his stuff but I have to say that my favorite CD is I Feel Alright. I remember hearing it and knowing he was on his way back from where he'd been and it was gonna be alright.  He had acknowledged his past and was hopeful for the future.  It makes me feel hopeful to listen to it whenever I am down or feel like I have been beaten. 

I saw Steve Earle play at Chicago's Park West in '86.  The ticket was given to me by a friend and so I had no idea who I was going to see.  I thought he was a really good live performer, but country music just wasn't my thing and so I remember thinking that his music was good but not for me.  I had grown up in small town country and had moved to the city...for a reason...to get out.  And so, the early Guitar Town and Exit O songs weren't something I was interested in.   Then, he did his version of Springsteen's "State Trooper".  I was a big Springsteen fan then (as was everyone) and I was completely impressed by his rendition of the song.  It was better than Springsteen's.  But, that was all of Steve Earle I heard for awhile. Then, one day, I heard "Copperhead Road" on the radio.  That is the day I started paying closer attention to Steve Earle.  I have to say that, other than Copperhead Road, I prefer the music that he has done from the 90's on, but I also have a new appreciation for Guitar Town and Exit O now.  I think he is a gifted singer/songwriter and musician.  His music is original and has an honesty and a rawness about it.  It's heartfelt and that comes across whether you see him live or just listen to his CDs. WSS is just more of the good stuff.  You can tell right where his life is by listening to it and he sounds very content with where he is.   A bit older, a lot wiser and more evolved as an artist.  Nice place to be.

 My favorite song is "The Boy Who Never Cried".

Someday

It must have been in 85 or 86, I heard some guy singing this song about a little town where there was nothing to do except drive down to the lake and turn back around.

This was litteraly all there was to do in the town I had grown up in Central Illinois and all I wanted to do was leave...someday.

I had no idea who was singing it and couldn't find out until a year or so later when Copperhead Road became a hit. I finally left but have never stopped listening to Steve Earl or following his career.

 

It was in the very early 90's, a girlfriend dragged me 200miles to Liverpool, to see a band I'd never heard of.....Steve Earle and the Dukes.   I married her!

Leokirby, sound like you are telling my story, except that was me up in Northern Ontario. I've been listening to Steve Earle since Guitar Town. At my high school, country wasn't cool, but I knew Steve was way more than country. And he's cooler than friggin' Motley Crue now, ain't he?!

Bluegrass:

And he's cooler than friggin' Motley Crue now, ain't he?!

Without a doubt!!!

 

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kmb117:

We don't have a cure for cancer but we've got 16 million different versions of the Lord of the Rings. What. The. Fuck.

LOL! You're a funny guy Bloodaxe!

It's Magnus (Bloodaxe) on the photograph! Have you seen the tattoo on his other arm? :-P :-P

Viky:

It's Magnus (Bloodaxe) on the photograph! Have you seen the tattoo on his other arm? :-P :-P

 Yes, as a matter of fact, I have a photo of Magnus' other tattoo!

 

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Yours forever blue xx