Steve Earle

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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and actor.

Earle began his career in Nashville as a songwriter and released his first EP in 1982. Guitar Town, 1986, was his breakthrough album.

Earl has recorded 15 studio albums and been nominated for three Grammy Awards since then.

Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm, The Highwaymen (country supergroup), Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin, Bob Seger, and Emmylou Harris have all recorded his songs.

He has appeared on film and television, as well as writing a book of short stories.

Early life

Earl Earl was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where his father was stationed as an air traffic controller. The family moved to Texas before Earl Earl's second birthday, but he grew up in San Antonio, Texas.

Earl Earl began playing the guitar at the age of 11 and competed in a school talent competition at age 13. At the age of 14, he walked away from home to look for his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Earle was "rebellious" as a young man and dropped out of school at the age of 16. He and his 19-year-old uncle, who was also a guitarist, moved to Houston. Van Zandt was a student at the University of Houston, Texas. In 2012, Earl Earl Earl was opposed to the Vietnam war: "The anti-war movement was a very personal thing for me." I didn't complete high school, so I wasn't qualified for a student deferment. "I was fucking going," says the author. The end of the Selective Service Act and the draft lottery in 1973 barred him from being drafted, but many of his friends were drafted, which he attributes to his politicization. Earl also noted that as a young man, his mother was able to have an abortion amid the fact that abortion was unlawful. Her father worked at a local hospital in San Antonio, but many other girls he knew at the time were unable to obtain abortions; they lacked the ability to arrange an abortion, which he attributes to his pro-choice beliefs.

Personal life

Earl Earl has married seven times, including twice to the same woman. Sandra "Sandy" Henderson married Sandra "Sandy" Henderson in Houston at the age of 18, but she later moved to Nashville, where he met and married Cynthia Dunn, his second wife. Earle married Carol-Ann Hunter, the widow of their late son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle (1982–2020).

Lou-Anne Gill married Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had second son, Ian Dublin Earle, in January 1987) and then Teresa Ensenat, then an A&R executive for Geffen Records at the time, was a married man. He then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and then, in 2005, he married Allison Moorer, with whom he had a son named John Henry Earl Earle in April 2010. Before age two, John Henry was diagnosed with autism. Earl Moore and Moorer were reported to separate in March 2014.

Earl Earl was arrested in 1993 for cocaine use, and in 1994 for firearms possession. Since he admitted to smoking but failed to appear in court, a judge sentenced him to a year in prison. After 60 days in prison, he was released from prison. He then completed an outpatient drug therapy program at the Cedarwood Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Earle, a heroin user, has used his experience in songwriting.

Stacey Earle's sister, as well as a guitarist and songwriter, is also a singer and songwriter.

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Career

Earl Earle, a young 19 Earle, migrated to Nashville, where he began performing blue-collar jobs during the day and performing live music at night. Earle wrote songs and played bass guitar in Guy Clark's band, as well as performing on Clark's 1975 album Old No. 78. 1. Earle appeared in the 1976 film Headed Highways, a tribute to Nashville's music scene starring David Allan Coe, Guy Clark, Townes van Zandt, and Rodney Crowell. Earle lived in Nashville for many years and assumed the role of staff songwriter at the publishing company Sunbury Dunbar. Earl Earle grew tired of Nashville and moved to Texas, where he formed The Dukes, a boy band.

Earle returned to Nashville once more in the 1980s and served as a songwriter for publisher Roy Dea and Pat Carter. Johnny Lee's album "When You Fall in Love" was released by him and debuted at number 14 on the country charts in 1982. Carl Perkins performed Earl's "Mustang Wine" on Earl's album, and Zella Lehr's two songs were released. Earl dea and Carter were inspired to begin recording their own songs on their label, and later Dea and Carter formed LSI, an independent record label that allowed Earle to begin recording his own music. Earl Smith's composition "A Far Cry from You" was released in 1985, and it remained a minor spot on the country charts as well.

In 1982, Earle released Pink & Black, which featured the Dukes. John Lomax, Earl Lomax's manager, gave the EP to Epic Records, who then agreed to a recording deal for Earl Earl. Earle began a career with CBS in 1983 and produced a "neo-rockabilly album."

Earle, who had lost his publishing contract with Dea and Carter, met producer Tony Brown and ended his Lomax and Epic Records employment, securing a seven-record deal with MCA Records. Earl Earle's first full-length album, Guitar Town, was released on MCA Records in 1986. In 1986, the title track became a Top Ten single, and his album "All We've Got Left" debuted in the Top Ten, and in 1987, it became a Top Ten single. He also released an album with the Dukes named Early Tracks and an album of country and rock, which received acclaim.

Earle released Copperhead Road on Uni Records in 1988, "a quixotic project that mingled a lyrical folk heritage with hard rock and eclectic Irish influences, including The Pogues, who appeared on the record." The album's title track depicts a Vietnam veteran who works moonshine to become a marijuana grower/seller. It was Earle's highest-peaking song to date in the United States, and it had sold 1.1 million digital copies as of September 2017. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Earl Earle began "three years in a hazy vaporization."

His 1990 album The Hard Way had a strong rock sound and was followed by Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator, which was accompanied by a shoddy live album. Earle appeared on the television show The Texas Connection in August 1991, "looking pale and blown out." MCA Records did not renew his deal, and Earle did not perform any music for the next four years in light of Earle's "increasing opioid use." Earle had regained his normal weight by July 1993 and was encouraged to write new material. Earle was "a visionary symbol of the New Traditionalist movement in country music" at the time.

Two employees at Warner/Chappell Publishing house and Earl Dotson's former manager, John Dotson, created an in-house CD of Earl's songs entitled Uncut Gems in 1994 and sold it to several recording artists in Nashville. Travis Tritt, Stacy Dean Campbell, and Robert Earl Keen recorded several of Earl's songs. Earle, who is on hiatus, launched Train a Comin' on Winter Harvest Records, and it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1996. The album was characterized as a return to the "folksy acoustic" sounds of his youth.

Earle released the album I Feel Alright in 1996, which combined the musical sounds of country, rock, and rockabilly. Earle released the album El Corazon (The Heart) in 1997, which one reviewer described as "the pinnacle of this [Earle's] remarkable comeback."

Earl Earl wrote "Over Yonder" about a death row prisoner with whom he exchanged letters before attending his execution in 1998. He made a foray into bluegrass in 1999, when he first debuted The Mountain with the Del McCoury Band. Earle's album Transcendental Blues, which includes the song "Galway Girl," was released in 2000.

At the 2000 New Yorker Festival, Earle read excerpts from his poetry and fiction books. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive's Livebook was published in the spring of 2011 and Doghouse Roses, a collection of short stories, was published in June. Earle wrote and produced an off-Broadway play about Karla Faye Tucker's death, the first woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas.

Earl's album Jerusalem in the early 2000s portrayed his anti-war, anti-death, and other "leftist views." "John Walker's Blues," the album's song about captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh caused controversies. Earle responded by appearing on a variety of news and editorial outlets, defending the song and his views on patriotism and terrorism. His following tour debuted the Jerusalem album as the live album Just an American Boy in 2003.

Earl Earle released the album The Revolution Starts Now, a collection of songs influenced by the Iraq War and the George W. Bush administration's policies, gained a Grammy Award for best contemporary folk album in 2004. In a television commercial, GM used the name song. The album was released in the United States during the presidential campaign.

"The Revolution Starts Now" was included in Michael Moore's non-war documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11's promotional materials, and it appears on the album Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11. Earle was the subject of Just an American Boy, a documentary film released in the United States this year.

Earle contributed a cover of Randy Newman's "Rednecks" to Randy Newman's tribute album Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman in 2006. Earle hosted a radio show on Air America from August 2004 to June 2007. On the Outlaw Country channel, he began hosting a show called Hardcore Troubadour. Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: Steve Earle's Life and Near Death by Lauren St John.

Earle's twelfth studio album, Washington Square Serenade, was released on New West Records in September 2007. Earle recorded the album after relocating to New York City, and it was his first use of digital audio recording. On "Days Aren't Long Enough" and "Down Here Below," Earle Moorer's then-wife, Allison Moorer, appears on the album. Earle's interpretation of Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole," the theme song for the fifth season of HBO's The Wire, in which Earle appeared as a recovering heroin addict and opioid advisor named Walon (Earle's character appears in the first, fourth, and fifth seasons). Earl Baez' album Day After Tomorrow was released in 2008. Baez had previously reported two Earle songs, "Christmas in Washington" and "Jerusalem," on previous albums; "Jerusalem" had also been a staple of Baez' performances. He toured Europe and North America in favor of Washington Square Serenade, both solo and with a disc jockey.

Earles' tribute album, Townes, was released on New West Records on May 12, 2009. The collection contained 15 songs by Townes Van Zandt. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Moorer, and his son Justin were among the guest artists on the album. Earle was honoured for his third Grammy Award, this time for his best contemporary folk album.

Earle was named in 2010 by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Shining Star of Abolition award. Earle's 1995 film Dead Man Walking has two other anti-death penalty songs, "Billy Austin" and "Ellis Unit One."

Earle appeared in seasons 1 and 2 of the HBO show Treme as Harley Wyatt, a natural street musician who mentors another individual.

In the spring of 2011, Earle's first book and fourteenth studio album were released, both titled I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive after a Hank Williams song. T Bone Burnett produced the album, which addresses mortality with a "more country" sound than his earlier work. The drum kit was embroidered with the word "We are the 99%" in the second half of his 2011 tour with The Dukes and Duchesses and Moorer, a reference to the Occupy movement of September 2011.

Earle's sixteenth studio album, Terraplane, was released on February 17, 2015.

Earle & the Dukes launched "Mississippi, It's Time" on September 10, 2015. The song's lyrics are aimed at the state of Mississippi, which is attributed to their refusal to abandon the Confederate Flag and erase it from the state flag. The song was released for sale on the following day, with all proceeds going to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group.

Earle launched an album of duets with Shawn Colvin, titled simply Colvin And Earle, which was followed by a tour in London and the United States on June 10, 2016.

Earle & the Dukes' seventh studio album, So You Want A Be Outlaw, was released on June 16, 2017. Guy Clark's tribute album to his songwriting hero, Mandy Clark, was released on March 29, 2019.

Hundreds of artists were among those whose works were destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire, including Earle. Earle was one of five artists to bring a class action complaint against Universal on June 21, in reaction to a previous Times story on the fire.

Earle appeared on Willie Nile's latest song "Blood on Your Hands" in June 2021, one of Nile's forthcoming album The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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