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March 9, 2009

Steve Earle Tackles Townes Van Zandt
January 12, 2009

Q&A: The Music That Moves Steve Earle

Rabble-rousing rocker on Townes Van Zandt, Kings of Leon and Tom Morello
August 25, 2004

Country Radical

Steve Earle makes Bush-bashing an art

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Townes

Is anyone more entitled to make a Townes Van Zandt covers album than Steve Earle, who named a son after the Texas singer-songwriter? As Van Zandt's protégé, Earle knows these songs intimately — some of the greatest in the folk-country canon — and delivers them with the ease of...

2009 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Copperhead Road

2008

Washington Square Serenade

2007

The Revolution Starts...Now

2004

Jerusalem

2002

Transcendental Blues

2000

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Biography

At the start of his career as an opening act for both George Jones and the Replacements, and through his songs - which incorporate the populism of Hank Williams and Bruce Springsteen - Steve Earle bridged country and rock. In the late '80s and through the mid-'90s, however, Earle's personal problems - including his addiction to heroin - temporarily sidetracked what had been a promising career.

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