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
Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.
At that point one of the nurses and I reached for the button at the same time and delivered one shock.
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
I don't usually read reviews.
Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.
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.