EARLE, STEVE
WARNER BROS... -CD+DVD-
Label: SHOUT FACTORY
Releasedatum: 25-06-2013
Herkomst: US
Item-nr: 3104271
EAN: 0826663135732
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Recensie
4CD + DVD
This set represents an often-overlooked period, and one of intense experimentation, for Steve Earle — who couldn’t have been further removed (personally or professionally) from his earliest triumphs on Guitar Town and Copperhead Road.
In the meantime, Earle had run afoul with the law, amidst a whirling descent into drug abuse. Cleaned up at the end of 1994, he began his career anew — in more ways than one. Being sober had led Earle to a new focus on trying new sounds, on trying new things.
He made an acoustic record with Train A Comin,’ a country-focused album with 1996′s I Feel Alright, a bluegrass-inflected effort with 1997′s El Corazon, even while holding fast to the gnarly rock rebel persona that he’d forged back in the bad old days. He’d also sharpened a political view point that had first come to wider attention on the first side of Copperhead Road down to a glinting serrated edge.
He’d turn the blade on himself sometimes, too, cutting his own narrative to shreds.
So, you have “Hometown Blues,” a story about returning to his hometown in Texas and going unrecognized — by everyone but the cops. And “Now She’s Gone,” a tender remembrances of long-gone kisses and the last whispers of her perfume. And the bitter, bitter realizations of “Other Side of Town.” And also songs referencing Leadbelly “Angel is the Devil”), Woody Guthrie (“Christmas in Washington”), and the Beatles (“I’m Looking Through You”).
Earle, this set makes clear, emerged from his forced quietude with so very much to say.
The Warner Bros. Years is bolstered by a pair of live performances. There, Earle’s bold character portraits spring to ever-more-vivid life, as he weaves tales of love and love lost with the same writerly specificity as he does morality tales and political conundrums.
Most interesting is perhaps the previously unreleased 1995 Live at Polk Theater concert album, which features a trio of diaphanous performances by Emmylou Harris. The DVD To Hell and Back, recorded in 1996 at Tennessee’s Cold Creek Correctional Facility, includes tough new renditions of both “Cooperhead Road” and “Guitar Town,” followed by a raucous set-closing take on Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”
(tekst: somethingelsereviews.com)
- Disc 1 -
1 Mystery Train, Pt. 2 - 2:33
2 Hometown Blues - 2:41
3 Sometimes She Forgets - 3:01
4 Mercenary Song - 2:39
5 Goodbye - 4:57
6 Tom Ames' Prayer - 3:02
7 Nothin' Without You - 3:02
8 Angel is the Devil - 2:12
9 I'm Looking Through You - 2:28
10 Northern Winds - 1:40
11 Ben McCulloch - 4:09
12 Rivers of Babylon - 3:03
13 Tecumseh Valley - 4:28
- Disc 2 -
1 Feel Alright - 3:03
2 Hard-Core Troubadour - 2:40
3 More Than I Can Do - 2:37
4 Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You - 3:20
5 Now She's Gone - 2:48
6 Poor Boy - 2:55
7 Valentine's Day - 2:59
8 The Unrepentant - 4:30
9 CCKMP - 4:31
10 Billy and Bonnie - 3:38
11 South Nashville Blues - 2:28
12 You're Still Standin' There - 3:24
- Disc 3 -
1 Christmas in Washington - 4:58
2 Taneytown - 5:13
3 If You Fall - 4:10
4 I Still Carry You Around - 2:45
5 Telephone Road - 3:42
6 Somewhere Out There - 3:46
7 You Know the Rest - 2:11
8 N.Y.C. - 3:37
9 Poison Lovers - 3:47
10 The Other Side of Town - 4:17
11 Here I Am - 2:38
12 Ft. Worth Blues - 4:02
- Disc 4 -
1 Mystery Train, Pt. 2 [Live][#] - 2:51
2 Hometown Blues [Live][#] - 2:49
3 The Devil's Right Hand [Live][#] - 3:21
4 Angel is the Devil [Live][#] - 2:41
5 Walls of Time [Live][#] - 5:02
6 Sometimes She Forgets [Live][#] - 3:35
7 You Know the Rest [Live][#] - 2:10
8 I'm Looking Through You [Live][#] - 3:06
9 Rivers of Babylon [Live][#] - 4:08
10 Goodbye [Live][#] - 5:30
11 Nothin' Without You [Live][#] - 3:51
12 When Will We Be Married [Live][#] - 4:02
13 Northern Winds/Ben McCulloch [Live][#] - 5:28
14 Copperhead Road [Live][#] - 5:02
- Disc 5 -
1 Feel Alright [Live][#] -
2 Hard-Core Troubadour [Live][#] -
3 The Devil's Right Hand [Live][#] -
4 More Than I Can Do [Live][#] -
5 South Nashville Blues [Live][#] -
6 Ellis Unit One [Live][#] -
7 The Unrepentant [Live][#] -
8 Copperhead Road [Live][#] -
9 Guitar Town [Live][#] -
10 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Live][#] -
This set represents an often-overlooked period, and one of intense experimentation, for Steve Earle — who couldn’t have been further removed (personally or professionally) from his earliest triumphs on Guitar Town and Copperhead Road.
In the meantime, Earle had run afoul with the law, amidst a whirling descent into drug abuse. Cleaned up at the end of 1994, he began his career anew — in more ways than one. Being sober had led Earle to a new focus on trying new sounds, on trying new things.
He made an acoustic record with Train A Comin,’ a country-focused album with 1996′s I Feel Alright, a bluegrass-inflected effort with 1997′s El Corazon, even while holding fast to the gnarly rock rebel persona that he’d forged back in the bad old days. He’d also sharpened a political view point that had first come to wider attention on the first side of Copperhead Road down to a glinting serrated edge.
He’d turn the blade on himself sometimes, too, cutting his own narrative to shreds.
So, you have “Hometown Blues,” a story about returning to his hometown in Texas and going unrecognized — by everyone but the cops. And “Now She’s Gone,” a tender remembrances of long-gone kisses and the last whispers of her perfume. And the bitter, bitter realizations of “Other Side of Town.” And also songs referencing Leadbelly “Angel is the Devil”), Woody Guthrie (“Christmas in Washington”), and the Beatles (“I’m Looking Through You”).
Earle, this set makes clear, emerged from his forced quietude with so very much to say.
The Warner Bros. Years is bolstered by a pair of live performances. There, Earle’s bold character portraits spring to ever-more-vivid life, as he weaves tales of love and love lost with the same writerly specificity as he does morality tales and political conundrums.
Most interesting is perhaps the previously unreleased 1995 Live at Polk Theater concert album, which features a trio of diaphanous performances by Emmylou Harris. The DVD To Hell and Back, recorded in 1996 at Tennessee’s Cold Creek Correctional Facility, includes tough new renditions of both “Cooperhead Road” and “Guitar Town,” followed by a raucous set-closing take on Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”
(tekst: somethingelsereviews.com)
- Disc 1 -
1 Mystery Train, Pt. 2 - 2:33
2 Hometown Blues - 2:41
3 Sometimes She Forgets - 3:01
4 Mercenary Song - 2:39
5 Goodbye - 4:57
6 Tom Ames' Prayer - 3:02
7 Nothin' Without You - 3:02
8 Angel is the Devil - 2:12
9 I'm Looking Through You - 2:28
10 Northern Winds - 1:40
11 Ben McCulloch - 4:09
12 Rivers of Babylon - 3:03
13 Tecumseh Valley - 4:28
- Disc 2 -
1 Feel Alright - 3:03
2 Hard-Core Troubadour - 2:40
3 More Than I Can Do - 2:37
4 Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You - 3:20
5 Now She's Gone - 2:48
6 Poor Boy - 2:55
7 Valentine's Day - 2:59
8 The Unrepentant - 4:30
9 CCKMP - 4:31
10 Billy and Bonnie - 3:38
11 South Nashville Blues - 2:28
12 You're Still Standin' There - 3:24
- Disc 3 -
1 Christmas in Washington - 4:58
2 Taneytown - 5:13
3 If You Fall - 4:10
4 I Still Carry You Around - 2:45
5 Telephone Road - 3:42
6 Somewhere Out There - 3:46
7 You Know the Rest - 2:11
8 N.Y.C. - 3:37
9 Poison Lovers - 3:47
10 The Other Side of Town - 4:17
11 Here I Am - 2:38
12 Ft. Worth Blues - 4:02
- Disc 4 -
1 Mystery Train, Pt. 2 [Live][#] - 2:51
2 Hometown Blues [Live][#] - 2:49
3 The Devil's Right Hand [Live][#] - 3:21
4 Angel is the Devil [Live][#] - 2:41
5 Walls of Time [Live][#] - 5:02
6 Sometimes She Forgets [Live][#] - 3:35
7 You Know the Rest [Live][#] - 2:10
8 I'm Looking Through You [Live][#] - 3:06
9 Rivers of Babylon [Live][#] - 4:08
10 Goodbye [Live][#] - 5:30
11 Nothin' Without You [Live][#] - 3:51
12 When Will We Be Married [Live][#] - 4:02
13 Northern Winds/Ben McCulloch [Live][#] - 5:28
14 Copperhead Road [Live][#] - 5:02
- Disc 5 -
1 Feel Alright [Live][#] -
2 Hard-Core Troubadour [Live][#] -
3 The Devil's Right Hand [Live][#] -
4 More Than I Can Do [Live][#] -
5 South Nashville Blues [Live][#] -
6 Ellis Unit One [Live][#] -
7 The Unrepentant [Live][#] -
8 Copperhead Road [Live][#] -
9 Guitar Town [Live][#] -
10 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Live][#] -
