Following on the heels of his latest album, The Low Highway, Steve Earle is set to release a box set on June 25 via Shout Factory! The set will include three albums he released on Warner Brothers between 1995-97: Train A Comin’, I Feel Alright, and El Corazon. Review: Steve Earle, The Low Highway Along [...]

Steve Earle & The Dukes And Duchesses The Low Highway (New West) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars He’s such a busy guy these days, what with his acting and writing careers, that it’s possible that some younger folks might not realize that Steve Earle is one of the finest songwriters of his generation and [...]

In 1966 John Sebastian, in the song “Nashville Cats,” wrote “There’s thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville.” Today there are probably a hundred times that many people in the Nashville area who, if not professionally, can play at least a couple chords on a guitar. Beginning especially since Chet Atkins hung his shingle [...]

While juggling a memoir, a fiction novel and a recent collaboration with Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, also found some time to wrap up The Low Highway. The new album, his first since I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, is due April 16. In the meantime, “Calico County” — a greasy slab of roadhouse [...]

(Photo: Rich Russo) On the same day that House Speaker John Boehner effectively delayed a planned aid package designated for Hurricane Sandy victims, a chorus of musicians, led by Steve Earle, took the politician to task last night in Asbury Park, NJ’s Paramount Theater during “On The Beach- A Sandy Relief Concert.” “That Boehner’s got [...]

(Emmlyou Harris with Daniel Lanois) Released in 1995, Wrecking Ball knocked down the pillars of Emmylou Harris’ sound — the clean production; the mix of country ballads and rootsy rave-ups; the loose connection to mainstream country music — and rebuilt her career from the ground up. Daniel Lanois, a rock & roll producer with little [...]

Emily Earle, the niece of country legend Steve Earle and cousin of Justin Townes Earle, was one of our 25 Finalists for The American Songwriter Coffeehouse Tour Contest. Earlier this week, after singing Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” for her blind audition, she became the newest addition to Team CeeLo on The Voice. Watch her [...]

Singer-songwriter, actor and occasional author Steve Earle has announced that he will write a memoir. Earle wrote a collection of short stories, Doghouse Roses, in 2010, and the Hank Williams-centered novel I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive in 2011. Earle, who became entangled in drug addiction in the early ’90s and went on [...]

When Joe Pug says that he owes his life to Steve Earle, it may not be in the way you might imagine. It could appear that he’s speaking metaphorically and sure, Earle’s music, just like that of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch and others, are Pug’s permanent church. This time though, we’re dealing with [...]

It’s been a fun day here at American Songwriter, bringing you advanced previews of new albums before they hit stores. Here’s a record we’re really excited about; Marvin Etzioni’s Marvin Country!, the Lone Justice co-founder’s fourth solo album, which features inspired collaborations with Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller, John Doe, Maria McKee, [...]

Blue-collar families across the country were hit hard in 1981, when Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers after a two-day strike. The decision had long-lasting effects. President Reagan didn’t just sack the air-traffic controllers; he banned them from ever taking another federal job. Since many of the workers were Army vets who’d [...]