Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earleis an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.
Music was very influential on me as a kid.
My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.
Before, I recorded in specific blocks of time. That's changed. Now everything revolves around making music for me. And it feels good.
Even though I talk about them every day, I was still incredibly nervous and shaken. It was a stressful situation.
At that point one of the nurses and I reached for the button at the same time and delivered one shock.
pushing the edge of the envelope to attract attention, but it's the wrong subject at the wrong time. He's been going nowhere fast for a long time, and while this may draw fleeting attention, it won't save his faltering career.
I'm not trying to get myself deported or something. In a big way this is the most pro-American record I've ever made.
I've had more people come up and thank me and say they never thought they'd see these cars again,
That money was put in that fund for miners who are suffering and dying from black lung, and that's what the intent was and that's what it should be used for.
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.