Artist: Steve Earle
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues
Depending on how you keep track — that is, depending on how tight you want to wear your documentarian-geek beanie — Transcendental Blues is Steve Earle’s tenth album. Beginning in 1986, he blew the doors off Nashville with Guitar Town, blew their cover with Exit 0, and blew town with Copperhead Road. The Hard Way [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band – Bring the Family
“The old write memoirs, the young do resumés. In midlife we keep a kind of diary that always begins with a discussion of the weather. The present is where we live, equidistant from our birth and death.…We see our history and future clearly. We sleep well, dream in all tenses, wake ready and able.” – [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Steve Earle / Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Chicago Folk Center (Chicago, IL)
After Steve Earle opened with “Christmas In Washington”, we could just about have gone home. “Come back, Woody Guthrie,” he sang, invoking the spirit and purpose formerly associated with American folk music that has since seemed to dissipate into introspection and historic reproduction. The song at once captured the sense of loss, as well as [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Steve Earle / Buddy & Julie Miller – The Phoenix (Toronto, Ontario)
As dramatic spectacles go, it would be hard to top the opening moments of Steve Earle’s Toronto stop on the El Corazon tour. At 9 p.m. EST, U.S. President Bill Clinton was before Congress, delivering a State Of The Union address and fighting for his political life. At that same moment, Earle was onstage at [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Steve Earle – Early Tracks
Sure are a lot of Steve Earle compilations on the market, especially what with them saying up on Music Row he’s a commercial failure and all, just another songwriter better out of sight and being covered by more polite folks wearing new hats. Yeah, well, he’ll outlast them yet. Part of that outlasting, though, means [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Steve Earle – El Corazon
Artists tend to work over safety nets that appear suspiciously like a charred mattress, hose-soaked at the edge of an unmowed lawn, a crowd on the corner standing and pointing. Reasons to fail, these are. Reasons to quit, to borrow from Willie Nelson. Excuses. There’s safety in that, and a deep hole; if you haven’t [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Steve Earle / V-Roys – “Johnny Too Bad”
Cacophonous and caffeinated, Claire is clicking at her clackety keyboard on the teensy end of a.m., fatiguing along like the good little spit-shined she-soldier she wishes she were. And the metaphor is aptly wrapped, for like a bulging bugler (heavily into reveille), Claire has something to trumpet up your sun-up. Just recent, my decent (I’d [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Steve Earle – Town Hall (Birmingham, England)
Cadott, Wisconsin, 1994. Country Fest. Notebook in hand, I stand in darkness as six lovely boys who missed the White Lion reunion tour casting call get 30,000 drunken cheeseheads in a cow pasture to hoist their 35th beer of the day to the night sky and scream “God Blessed Texas!” It occurs to me that [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Steve Earle – Can’t keep a good man down
I can still hear them blaring in the back of my mind, those gleaming brass trumpets and trombones, thrusting right and left, toward one end zone and then the other, as the University of Texas marching band zipped through “The Wabash Cannonball”. Aside from “The Eyes of Texas” and the UT fight song, “The Wabash [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Steve Earle – Vic Theater (Chicago, IL)
A performer receiving a standing ovation is something that happens all the time. But how many performers get a standing ovation for simply walking out onstage? That was the reception Steve Earle received from more than 1,200 wildly enthusiastic fans at the Vic Theater in Chicago. It was the first of many standing Os he [...]
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