Steve Earle

**Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:44 pm**

Steve Earle is one of my favorite singers ever! His music has got me through all kinds of hard or weird times. I recently moved back to the US for a couple of years, and I got to see Steve three times. He just keeps getting better and better as he gets older. I noticed the pic of Steve, Billy Bragg, Spider and Shane getting the Mojo awards... what a great combination! Anyway, I think I got into the Pogues before Steve, but I always thought that they were a great combination on "Johnny Come Lately." Recently, Steve has done some more celtic flavored stuff like "Dixieland" and "Galway Girl--I have a fantasy that he'll do some more recording with The Pogues. You never know... they look like they are still great buddies in the Mojo pic, and Steve's second home is in Galway. I recently bought the expanded version of "If I Should Fall From Grace," and noticed, to my delight, that Steve wrote some of the liner notes. For those who haven't read it, it's a hilarious read.

Any other SE (Steve Earle) fans out there?

**Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:41 pm**

I first heard about SE in connection with Johnny Come Lately, not a very long time ago, maybe a year or two. I guess I’d have never come across him if it wasn’t for his cooperation with the Pogues – he is virtually unknown in my part of the world. Johnny won my heart right away, so I was glad when a pal offered to make me a copy of Steve’s Copperhead Road (RIAA members, please block your ears). I enjoy the album, the driving melodies and Steve’s voice. Still, Johnny remains my most favourite song, and I don’t know whether it’s because it’s really the best, because it was the first one I heard or whether I favour it because of the Pogues’ involvement.

Anyway, it’s the only album I’ve heard so far – and I do like it.

**Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:16 pm**

I do like 'Galway Girl' and 'Johny Come lately' and agree that Steve Earl + The Pogues = GOLD.

**Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:21 pm**

Saw SE at a festival a few years ago - he was brilliant.

Wanted to see him with Patti Smith at the RFH last week, but couldn't make it.

**Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:20 am**

Steve Earle is one of my all time favorites and like you said he keeps getting bether and bether. His latest album the revolution starts ....now is brilliant. with the title song and cci as my favorites.

**Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:16 pm**

love steve, highly underrated singer/songwriter, his latest album the revolution starts now is fantastic....older classics like billy austin though are pure magic
http://www.steveearle.net

**Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:31 am**

He's massive in the U.S though isn't he? Love the acoustic version of Copperhead Road, album version doesnt hold a candle to it. What I've heard, a couple of albums, I've liked.

**Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:42 pm**

Thanks all. I learned something new today, and I'll buy a cd.

**Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:59 am**

Ahoy!

My Trinity has ALWAYS been, and always will be:

The Pogues, Steve Earle & Tom Waits.

I saw Steve last year in Sydney - he sold out straight away last month in Melbourne - and the man is fucking relentless. Pure energy, pure conviction.

Swillin' Will Swan :twisted:

HMS MUTINY
Melbourne, Australia

**Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:01 pm**

yeh, actually he spent last month touring oz and NZ with his missus...

**Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:52 am**

The Pogues turned me onto Steve Earle. I remember listening to one of the live bootlegs and Spider introducing Johnny Come Lately by saying it was "written by Steve Earle, he's from Texas". It was a great song so I bought Copperhead Road. It is a fantastic record made towards the height of Steve's hard drug days. Of course, he later spent some time if jail, got clean and went on to a different musical direction but, in my opinion, even stronger. I have seen him three times (including once at the 9:30 club) and he is a fantastic performer. His last two CD's are totally right on with current events. And yes, his celtic-influenced stuff is great. I highly recommend Copperhead Road, The Mountain, Transcendental Blues, The Revolution Starts Now, and Jeruselem. There is a photo of Steve with Spider and Shane AND Billy Bragg on the Medusa site. Those three acts pretty much make up my own holy trinity of all-time favorite acts. Great stuff.

**Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:41 pm**

http://www.abolition.org/steveearle.html

**Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:03 pm**

Paddy Rolling Clone wrote:He's massive in the U.S though isn't he?

Not really - you never hear him played on the bigger FM stations, usually just the smaller public radio/college stations. The most ink he got here in the states was when his John Walker Lindh song came out (a couple of years ago? - can't remember the name), and predictably outraged the right wing pundits here.

Anyway, for my money his best albums are "Train a Comin'" (which has my favorite song by him "Ben McCullogh" - this incredibly angry Civil war song written from the POV of a Confederate/Texas infantryman), and "The Mountain", a bluegrass album which he recorded with the Del McCoury Band)

**Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:13 am**

...is one of the worst versions of the song I have ever heard.

Discuss.

**Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:04 am**

Link please???

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Steave Earl & Bap Kennedy's 'Dirty Old Town'

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