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Nov 11, 2021 · With a discography as large and as meaningful as Earle’s, it’d be hard to offer a “Best Of” list that fully captures the breadth of his accomplishments as a songster—nonetheless, American...
- Joe Vitagliano
- Hal Horowitz
- Courtesy of artist. Both Warren Zevon and Earle shared a distrust of doing things the traditional way in the music business. This Zevon cover, included in 2004’s wonderful posthumous various artist tribute to the twisted West Coast singer/songwriter, Enjoy Every Sandwich, finds Earle backed by country rockers Reckless Kelly as he pleads for a romantic interest to take him back pledging “I swear that I changed since then”.
- So You Wannabe an Outlaw. This title track to 2017’s album is a cautionary rocker for anyone who thinks the outlaw musician’s life is a worthy career choice.
- You Were On My Mind. The cover of this 60s folk-pop hit (originally by the We Five) from 2016’s under-the-radar Earle/Shawn Colvin duet album, was produced by Buddy Miller.
- Goodbye. Earle returned from drug addiction and a jail sentence that sidelined him since 1990 with 1995’s acoustic Train a Comin’. Recorded for an independent label after MCA dropped him, the bittersweet ballad is a remembrance of a love gone sour.
- "Outlaw's Honeymoon"
- "Jerusalem"
- "Hillbilly Highway"
- "Goodbye's All We've Got Left"
- "Sweet Little '66"
- "The Devil's Right Hand"
- "The Galway Girl"
- "Feel Alright"
- "Copperhead Road"
- "Guitar Town"
This one's among the solid cuts from The Mountain, a collaborative bluegrass album featuring the Del McCoury Band. It barely gets the nod here over another classic from the same album, "Graveyard Shift."
The title track from Earle's 2002 album further established him as a wordsmith capable of exposing society's ills through whip-smart allegories.
This toe-tapper from the Guitar Town album could've been a fun song for Dwight Yoakamor any number of '90s country stars he inspired with his West Coast country-rock sound.
This stomper's not to be confused with the solemn "Goodbye" from Earle's 1995 folk masterpiece Train A Comin'.Together, they shed light on both the rocker and the poet.
Don't let all this talk about Earle's talents as a poet and his takes as a political thinker overshadow that his cover of "Six Days on the Road" and the 1990 original "This Highway's Mine" aren't the San Antonio native's only recordings that're simply about cruising down the highway.
One of the better cuts off Copperhead Road has lived an interesting life as a cover song. Waylon Jennings cut it two years in advance for the 1986 album The Wolf Will Survive. Jennings' version inspired two noteworthy recordings: one by his fellow Highwaymen in 1995 and another by Bob Seger in 2014.
Earle's love of American and Irish folk music and his ability to write for the here and now never crossed streams as beautifully as they did for the best cut off the 2000 album Transcendental Blues.
This one's likelihood to get stuck in listener's heads for days became very obvious after Miranda Lambert borrowed enough from it for "Kerosene" that she added Earle as a co-writer.
Earle's always excelled while singing about downtrodden veterans ("Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)") and desperate measures ("Mercenary Song"), and that's never been clearer than on this classic rock radio staple that gets name-dropped in song by pop-friendly Nashville stars.
This early career classic remains Earle's highest-charting single (a No. 7 hit) on the US and Canadian charts. In a case of real recognizing real, Emmylou Harris added Earle's greatest hit to her own songbook.
The Brazilian rocker sees pictures in his riffs. When he came up with one of his gnarliest songs, there was a riot going on.
- Brian Kachejian
- The Galway Girl. Closing out our top 10 Steve Earle songs list we turn to a song released on Steve Earle’s Transcendental Blues album. This wonderful song entitled “The Galway Girl,” has an extraordinary Celtic vibe and melody and lyrics.
- Nowhere Road. As we come almost to a close on our top 10 Steve Earle songs list we turn to a song entitled “Nowhere Road.” The song was released on the album Exit 0.
- Guitar Town. And speaking of Guitar Town. At number three on our top 10 Steve Earle songs list is the albums incredible title track “Guitar Town.” Most Steve Earle fans will pick this one as their number one Steve Earle song.
- Someday. We could have filled this entire top 10 list with songs from Steve Earle’s legendary Guitar Town album. What a masterpiece that album is. However in order to present a wide variety of Steve Earle songs from various points in his career, we limited ourselves to only choosing two songs form the album.
He’s known for his controversial songs and his outspoken views on the death penalty and war. After a rebellious youth, Steve moved to Houston with his uncle at the age of 19.
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The official YouTube channel of Steve Earle. New album 'Alone Again (Live)' out on July 12th. Pre-Save here: https://orcd.co/aloneagainlive
