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August 25, 2004

Country Radical

Steve Earle makes Bush-bashing an art

Copperhead Road

All dressed up in his outlaw-biker best, Steve Earle launched a political fireball with 1988's Copperhead Road. On the Skynyrd-style boogie of "Snake Oil," he raged against Reagan: "Well, ain't your president good to you? Knocked 'em dead in Libya, Grenada too." And he advocates for gun control...

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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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