Enter to win a signed copy of ‘Steve Earle: The Warner Bros. Years’ box set
No Depression
Posted On June 17, 2013
Ever since his 1986 debut (and, in some ways, even before that), Steve Earle has been one of the most prolific and distinctive singer-songwriters on the Amerciana/alt/country/rock scene. His 15 studio albums have encompassed political protest music, bluegrass, rock and roll, Townes Van Zandt covers, and just flat-out, darn-good genre-defying music. His work was covered by no less than 20 articles in print issues of No Depression, and has received considerable attention here from the ND Community. In fact, his 2013 release Low Highway has already earned praise from several bloggers on this site.
So, it makes sense that we might be interested in churning up a little more discussion about the wonderful work of Steve Earle.
Lucky for us, the folks at Shout! Factory have compiled a new box set titled Steve Earle: The Warner Brothers Years and we’d like to give away a copy to two lucky ND Community members.
From the press release:
Steve Earle: The Warner Bros Years is a 4-CD/1-DVD box set paying tribute to an incredibly significant time in Earle’s career. The box set consists of three essential Steve Earle studio albums, Train a Comin’, I Feel Alright, and El Corazόn, the previously unreleased concert album Live at the Polk Theater, and To Hell and Back, a concert filmed at Cold Creek Correctional Facility in Tennessee. The box set also contains a newly written intro by Earle, original booklet information and art from the original Warner Bros releases, and an insightful essay written by David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire and Treme, in which Earle appeared in and provided music for.
Learn more here.
To enter to win: Leave a comment on this blog post telling us about your favorite song from the track listing below, and why that particular song stands out. Or, if you can’t pick just one, you can tell us which of the albums in this box set you think is the best, and why.
To comment on this post (and thus enter the contest): Scroll to the bottom of this page and leave your comment in the comment box. Comments posted on Facebook and Twitter will not be counted, nor will comments posted as separate blog posts on this or any other site.
The contest will close at 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 24, with the winners being chosen and announced soon thereafter. Two winners will receive a copy of the box set. (Everyone is welcome to enter but, due to shipping costs, the prize must be shipped to a US address.)
Steve Earle: The Warner Bros Years track listing
DISC 1 – Train A Comin’
1. Mystery Train Part II
2. Hometown Blues
3. Sometimes She Forgets
4. Mercenary Song
5. Goodbye
6. Tom Ames’ Prayer
7. Nothin’ Without You (with Emmylou Harris)
8. Angel Is The Devil
9. I’m Looking Through You
10. Northern Winds
11. Ben McCullouch
12. Rivers of Babylon (with Lucinda Williams)
13. Tecumseh Valley
DISC 2 – I Feel Alright
1. Feel Alright
2. Hard-Core Troubadour
3. More Than I Can Do
4. Hurtin’ Me, Hurtin’ You
5. Now She’s Gone
6. Poor Boy
7. Valentine’s Day
8. The Unrepentant
9. CCKMP
10. Billy and Bonnie
11. South Nashville Blues
12. You’re Still Standin’ There
DISC 3 – El Corazón
1. Christmas In Washington
2. Taneytown
3. If You Fall
4. I Still Carry You Around (with the Del McCoury Band)
5. Telephone Road (with the Fairfield Four)
6. Somewhere Out There
7. You Know The Rest
8. N.Y.C. (with the Supersuckers)
9. Poison Lovers
10. The Other Side of Town
11. Here I Am
12. Ft. Worth Blues
DISC 4 – Live at the Polk Theater 1995
1. Mystery Train Part II
2. Hometown Blues
3. The Devils Right Hand
4. Angel Is The Devil
5. The Walls of Time (with Bill Monroe & Peter Rowan)
6. Sometimes She Forgets
7. You Know The Rest
8. I’m Looking Through You
9. The Rivers of Babylon (with Emmylou Harris)
10. Goodbye (with Emmylou Harris)
11. Nothin’ Without You (with Emmylou Harris)
12. When Will We Be Married
13. Northern Winds/Ben McCulloch
14. Copperhead Road
DISC 5 – “To Hell And Back,” Cold Creek Correctional Facility, Tennessee 1996 – DVD
1. Feel Alright
2. Hard-Core Troubadour
3. Devil’s Right Hand
4. More Than I Can Do
5. South Nashville Blues
6. Ellis Unit One
7. The Unrepentant
8. Copperhead Road
9. Guitar Town
10. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Lot To Cry
