By Holly Gleason “The land lady just realized what these guitars are worth, and she said she’d pay for it,” Steve Earle explains, getting back …
By Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
STEVE EARLE I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive New West After the Grammy-winning Townes, Steve Earle’s homage to mentor/songwriting-standard-setter Townes Van Zandt, he …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) “Well I left my home out on the great high plains, headed for some new terrain …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Aug/Sept 2010/vol. 3 – Issue 5) PART 1 — Kevin Welch The Great Emancipation Songwriter’s songwriter Kevin Welch spent 30 years …
By Andrew Dansby September 2002 Giving Steve Earle carte blanche to pen a political album isn’t unlike lobbing batting practice to the Babe; it almost …
