I had the chance to chat with Steve Earle for the Summer 2019 No Depression journal. While our conversation focused on Guy, his album of Guy Clark covers released that spring, we skimmed the surface of several topics that weren’t […]
I had the chance to chat with Steve Earle for the Summer 2019 No Depression journal. While our conversation focused on Guy, his album of Guy Clark covers released that spring, we skimmed the surface of several topics that weren’t […]
In the liner notes for his 2015 record, Terraplane, Steve Earle wrote, “[The blues] are very democratic, the commonest of human experience, perhaps the only thing that we all truly share.” Though his latest album, Ghosts of West Virginia, may feel more […]
There’s a moment of raw beauty on Steve Earle & The Dukes’ Guy that is in some ways the centerpiece of the entire album: Earle’s take on the talking blues “The Randall Knife” captures the purity of regret, ache, desire, […]
Both of my regular readers will know that I consider Steve Earle a giant of modern music. It’s been too long (going on three years) since his winding, everlasting tour last hit Britain, and if I had the means I […]
As the festival season is now underway in the sun soaked UK with many more coming up over the next couple of months how do you decide which one to attend? Obviously that depends on the artists but there’s also […]
A delightful holiday party and a sudden Manhattan downpour both militated against my making a benefit gig for which I’d bought tickets for myself and two friends last Monday night, but I was determined not to miss it. People did come […]
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