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 ain't ever satisfied...
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
The revolution starts now.
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them....
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.