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RólStephen Fain "Steve" Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin, Ian Stuart Donaldson and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.
Earle was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where his father, Jack Earle, was stationed. His father was an air traffic controller. The family returned to Texas before Earle's second birthday. They moved several times but Earle grew up primarily in the San Antonio area. Earle began learning the guitar at the age of 11 and was placed in a talent contest at his school at age 13. He is reported to have run away from home at age 14 to follow his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, around Texas. Earle was "rebellious" as a youngster and dropped out of school at the age of 16. He moved to Houston with his 19-year-old uncle, who was also a musician, where he married and worked odd jobs. While in Houston Earle met Van Zandt, who became his hero and role model. Earle's sister, Stacey Earle, is also a musician and songwriter.
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.
Befriending such older proponents of country's "outlaw" movement as Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he wrote songs for Johnny Lee and Patty Loveless and almost managed to place one of his songs on an Elvis Presley album. At age 31 Earle released his critically acclaimed debut, Guitar Town. With his backup band the Dukes recalling the twangy style of Duane Eddy, he assailed Reaganomics and championed society's outsiders, appearing at Farm Aid II and allying himself with Fearless Hearts, a relief group for homeless children. Exit O was also well received; Copperhead Road scored #56 on the pop chart, but that year Earle, as a result of an altercation with a Dallas security guard, was fined $500 and given a one-year unsupervised probation. The tougher guitar sound and darker lyrics of The Hard Way reflected his legal problems; again critics lauded his work, but it fared considerably less well than its predecessor.
In late 1993, after a long hiatus from the studio, Earle began recording demos for a new album, but without a record contract at the time, he showed little sign of soon reclaiming his earlier success. In 1994 Earle was arrested in Nashville for possession of narcotics and sentenced to almost a year in jail. After his release, Earle released the acoustic Train a Comin' on the Nashville indie label Winter Harvest. Boasting such guest vocalists as Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith and stalwart picking from Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, and Roy Huskey Jr., the album included covers of songs by Van Zandt, the Beatles, and the reggae harmony group the Melodians.
Train a Comin' garnered great reviews and sold well for an indie, but it was with the swaggering I Feel Alright that Earle returned with a vengeance. "Because I've been to hell and now I'm back again," he snarled on the title track, a hard-won manifesto. The album, his first of entirely new material in five years, found Earle facing and besting his demons. It also launched the E-Squared record label, an imprint that Earle operates with partner Jack Emerson, and marked the debut of the Twangtrust, the production team of Earle and Ray Kennedy whose credits include albums by Lucinda Williams, Cheri Knight, and Marah.
In 1996 Earle contributed a song about the human and social costs of the death penalty, "Ellis Unit One," to the movie Dead Man Walking. He has since emerged as a major voice in the campaign to abolish capital punishment. In 1997 Earle released El Corazón, a critically acclaimed album encompassing country, blues, folk, and rock. One of the record's tracks also featured a collaboration with the bluegrass group the Del McCoury Band, presaging Earle's headlong foray (with the McCourys) into the idiom, The Mountain (1999). In 2000 Earle released Transcendental Blues and in 2001 published a volume of short stories, Doghouse Roses. Jerusalem (2002) revealed Earle's conflicted feelings about America's response to the attacks on September 11, 2001. Those opinions seem to solidify on the deliberately titled The Revolution Start Now, which was released in tandem with the 2004 U.S. presidential election and received a Grammy in 2005 for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Earle presented excerpts of his poetry and fiction writing at the 2000 New Yorker Festival. His collection of short stories called Doghouse Roses was published in June 2011 and his novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive was published in the spring of 2011. Earle wrote and produced an off-Broadway play about the death of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas.
In the early 2000s Earle's album, Jerusalem expressed his anti-war, anti-death penalty and his other "leftist views". The album's song "John Walker's Blues", about the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh created controversy. Earle responded by appearing on a variety of news and editorial programs and defended the song and his views on patriotism and terrorism. Earle's subsequent tour featured the Jerusalem album and was released as the live album Just an American Boy in 2003. In 2004, Earle released the album, The Revolution Starts Now, a collection of songs influenced by the Iraq War and the policies of the George W. Bush administration and won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album. The title song was used by General Motors in a TV advertisement. The album was released during the U.S. presidential campaign.[citation needed] The song "The Revolution Starts Now" was used in the promotional materials for Michael Moore's anti-war documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 and appears on the album Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11. That year, Earle was the subject of a documentary DVD called Just An American Boy.
In 2006, Earle contributed a cover of Randy Newman's song "Rednecks" to the tribute album Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman. Earle hosted a radio show on Air America from August 2004 until June 2007. Later he began hosting a show called Hardcore Troubadour on the Outlaw Country channel. Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John.
In September 2007, Earle released his twelfth studio album, Washington Square Serenade, on New West Records. Earle recorded the album after relocating to New York City, and was his first use of digital audio recording. The disc features Earle's wife, Allison Moorer, on "Days Aren't Long Enough" and "Down Here Below." The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits' song "Way Down in the Hole" which was the theme song for the fifth season of The Wire in which Earle appeared as the character Walon. In 2008, Earle produced Joan Baez's album Day After Tomorrow. (Prior to their collaboration on Day After Tomorrow, Baez had covered two Earle songs, "Christmas in Washington" and "Jerusalem," on previous albums; "Jerusalem" had also become a staple of Baez' concerts.) In the winter, he toured Europe and North America in support of Washington Square Serenade, performing both solo and with a disc jockey. On May 12, 2009, Earle released a tribute album, Townes, on New West Records. The album contained 15 songs written by Townes Van Zandt. Guest artists appearing on the album included Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Moorer, and his son Justin.[citation needed] The album earned Earle a third Grammy award, again for best contemporary folk album.
In 2010 Earle was awarded the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Shining Star of Abolition award. Earle has recorded two other anti-death penalty songs: "Billy Austin", and "Ellis Unit One" for the 1995 film Dead Man Walking.
Earle released his first novel and fourteenth studio album, both entitled I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive after a Hank Williams song, in the spring of 2011. The album was released on April 26, 2011 and was produced by T Bone Burnett and deals with questions of mortality with a "more country" sound than his earlier work. During the second half of his 2011 tour with The Dukes and Duchesses and Moorer, the drum kit was adorned with the slogan "we are the 99%" a reference to the Occupy movement of September 2011.
On February 17, 2015, Earle released his sixteenth studio album, Terraplane.
On September 10, 2015, Earle & the Dukes released a new internet single titled "'Mississippi, It's Time". The song's lyrics are directed towards the state of Mississippi and their refusal to abandon the Confederate Flag and remove it from their state flag. The song was released for sale the following day with all proceeds going towards the Civil Rights organization Southern Poverty Law Centre.
On June 10, 2016, Earle released an album of duets with Shawn Colvin, titled simply Colvin And Earle, which was accompanied by a tour in London and the US.
Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman. He married Sandra "Sandy" Henderson in Houston at the age of 18, but left her to move to Nashville a year later where he met and married his second wife, Cynthia Dunn. Earle married his third wife, Carol-Ann Hunter, who gave birth to his son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. Next, he married Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son) and then his fifth wife, Teresa Ensenat, who was an A&R executive for Geffen Records at the time. Earle then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, married singer-songwriter Allison Moorer with whom he had a son, John Henry Earle, in April 2010. John Henry was diagnosed with autism before turning 2. In March 2014, Earle announced that he and Moorer had separated.
In 1993 Earle was arrested for possession of heroin and in 1994, for cocaine and "weapons possession". A judge sentenced him to a year in jail after he admitted possession and failed to appear in court. Earle was released from jail after serving 60 days of his sentence. Earle then completed an outpatient drug treatment program at the Cedarwood Centre in Hendersonville, Tennessee. As a recovering heroin addict, Earle has used his experience in his songwriting.
Earle's sister, Stacey Earle, is also a musician and songwriter.
Earle is out-spoken with his political views, and often addresses them in his lyrics and in interviews. Politically he identifies as a socialist, but tends to vote for Democratic candidates, despite not agreeing entirely with their politics. During the 2016 election he expressed support for Bernie Sanders, whom he considered to have pushed Hillary Clinton to the left on important issues.
He is a vocal opponent of capital punishment, which he considers his primary area of political activism. Several of his songs have provided descriptions of the experiences of death row inmates. He is also pro-choice on abortion, and has argued that rich Americans have always had access to abortions, and that the political issue in the US is really whether poor women should have access. His novel I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive describes the life of a morphine-addicted doctor in San Antonio before Roe v. Wade who treats gunshot wounds and provides illegal abortions to poor women.
Earle was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where his father, Jack Earle, was stationed. His father was an air traffic controller. The family returned to Texas before Earle's second birthday. They moved several times but Earle grew up primarily in the San Antonio area. Earle began learning the guitar at the age of 11 and was placed in a talent contest at his school at age 13. He is reported to have run away from home at age 14 to follow his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, around Texas. Earle was "rebellious" as a youngster and dropped out of school at the age of 16. He moved to Houston with his 19-year-old uncle, who was also a musician, where he married and worked odd jobs. While in Houston Earle met Van Zandt, who became his hero and role model. Earle's sister, Stacey Earle, is also a musician and songwriter.
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.
Befriending such older proponents of country's "outlaw" movement as Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he wrote songs for Johnny Lee and Patty Loveless and almost managed to place one of his songs on an Elvis Presley album. At age 31 Earle released his critically acclaimed debut, Guitar Town. With his backup band the Dukes recalling the twangy style of Duane Eddy, he assailed Reaganomics and championed society's outsiders, appearing at Farm Aid II and allying himself with Fearless Hearts, a relief group for homeless children. Exit O was also well received; Copperhead Road scored #56 on the pop chart, but that year Earle, as a result of an altercation with a Dallas security guard, was fined $500 and given a one-year unsupervised probation. The tougher guitar sound and darker lyrics of The Hard Way reflected his legal problems; again critics lauded his work, but it fared considerably less well than its predecessor.
In late 1993, after a long hiatus from the studio, Earle began recording demos for a new album, but without a record contract at the time, he showed little sign of soon reclaiming his earlier success. In 1994 Earle was arrested in Nashville for possession of narcotics and sentenced to almost a year in jail. After his release, Earle released the acoustic Train a Comin' on the Nashville indie label Winter Harvest. Boasting such guest vocalists as Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith and stalwart picking from Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, and Roy Huskey Jr., the album included covers of songs by Van Zandt, the Beatles, and the reggae harmony group the Melodians.
Train a Comin' garnered great reviews and sold well for an indie, but it was with the swaggering I Feel Alright that Earle returned with a vengeance. "Because I've been to hell and now I'm back again," he snarled on the title track, a hard-won manifesto. The album, his first of entirely new material in five years, found Earle facing and besting his demons. It also launched the E-Squared record label, an imprint that Earle operates with partner Jack Emerson, and marked the debut of the Twangtrust, the production team of Earle and Ray Kennedy whose credits include albums by Lucinda Williams, Cheri Knight, and Marah.
In 1996 Earle contributed a song about the human and social costs of the death penalty, "Ellis Unit One," to the movie Dead Man Walking. He has since emerged as a major voice in the campaign to abolish capital punishment. In 1997 Earle released El Corazón, a critically acclaimed album encompassing country, blues, folk, and rock. One of the record's tracks also featured a collaboration with the bluegrass group the Del McCoury Band, presaging Earle's headlong foray (with the McCourys) into the idiom, The Mountain (1999). In 2000 Earle released Transcendental Blues and in 2001 published a volume of short stories, Doghouse Roses. Jerusalem (2002) revealed Earle's conflicted feelings about America's response to the attacks on September 11, 2001. Those opinions seem to solidify on the deliberately titled The Revolution Start Now, which was released in tandem with the 2004 U.S. presidential election and received a Grammy in 2005 for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Earle presented excerpts of his poetry and fiction writing at the 2000 New Yorker Festival. His collection of short stories called Doghouse Roses was published in June 2011 and his novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive was published in the spring of 2011. Earle wrote and produced an off-Broadway play about the death of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas.
In the early 2000s Earle's album, Jerusalem expressed his anti-war, anti-death penalty and his other "leftist views". The album's song "John Walker's Blues", about the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh created controversy. Earle responded by appearing on a variety of news and editorial programs and defended the song and his views on patriotism and terrorism. Earle's subsequent tour featured the Jerusalem album and was released as the live album Just an American Boy in 2003. In 2004, Earle released the album, The Revolution Starts Now, a collection of songs influenced by the Iraq War and the policies of the George W. Bush administration and won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album. The title song was used by General Motors in a TV advertisement. The album was released during the U.S. presidential campaign.[citation needed] The song "The Revolution Starts Now" was used in the promotional materials for Michael Moore's anti-war documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 and appears on the album Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11. That year, Earle was the subject of a documentary DVD called Just An American Boy.
In 2006, Earle contributed a cover of Randy Newman's song "Rednecks" to the tribute album Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman. Earle hosted a radio show on Air America from August 2004 until June 2007. Later he began hosting a show called Hardcore Troubadour on the Outlaw Country channel. Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John.
In September 2007, Earle released his twelfth studio album, Washington Square Serenade, on New West Records. Earle recorded the album after relocating to New York City, and was his first use of digital audio recording. The disc features Earle's wife, Allison Moorer, on "Days Aren't Long Enough" and "Down Here Below." The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits' song "Way Down in the Hole" which was the theme song for the fifth season of The Wire in which Earle appeared as the character Walon. In 2008, Earle produced Joan Baez's album Day After Tomorrow. (Prior to their collaboration on Day After Tomorrow, Baez had covered two Earle songs, "Christmas in Washington" and "Jerusalem," on previous albums; "Jerusalem" had also become a staple of Baez' concerts.) In the winter, he toured Europe and North America in support of Washington Square Serenade, performing both solo and with a disc jockey. On May 12, 2009, Earle released a tribute album, Townes, on New West Records. The album contained 15 songs written by Townes Van Zandt. Guest artists appearing on the album included Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Moorer, and his son Justin.[citation needed] The album earned Earle a third Grammy award, again for best contemporary folk album.
In 2010 Earle was awarded the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Shining Star of Abolition award. Earle has recorded two other anti-death penalty songs: "Billy Austin", and "Ellis Unit One" for the 1995 film Dead Man Walking.
Earle released his first novel and fourteenth studio album, both entitled I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive after a Hank Williams song, in the spring of 2011. The album was released on April 26, 2011 and was produced by T Bone Burnett and deals with questions of mortality with a "more country" sound than his earlier work. During the second half of his 2011 tour with The Dukes and Duchesses and Moorer, the drum kit was adorned with the slogan "we are the 99%" a reference to the Occupy movement of September 2011.
On February 17, 2015, Earle released his sixteenth studio album, Terraplane.
On September 10, 2015, Earle & the Dukes released a new internet single titled "'Mississippi, It's Time". The song's lyrics are directed towards the state of Mississippi and their refusal to abandon the Confederate Flag and remove it from their state flag. The song was released for sale the following day with all proceeds going towards the Civil Rights organization Southern Poverty Law Centre.
On June 10, 2016, Earle released an album of duets with Shawn Colvin, titled simply Colvin And Earle, which was accompanied by a tour in London and the US.
Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman. He married Sandra "Sandy" Henderson in Houston at the age of 18, but left her to move to Nashville a year later where he met and married his second wife, Cynthia Dunn. Earle married his third wife, Carol-Ann Hunter, who gave birth to his son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. Next, he married Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son) and then his fifth wife, Teresa Ensenat, who was an A&R executive for Geffen Records at the time. Earle then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, married singer-songwriter Allison Moorer with whom he had a son, John Henry Earle, in April 2010. John Henry was diagnosed with autism before turning 2. In March 2014, Earle announced that he and Moorer had separated.
In 1993 Earle was arrested for possession of heroin and in 1994, for cocaine and "weapons possession". A judge sentenced him to a year in jail after he admitted possession and failed to appear in court. Earle was released from jail after serving 60 days of his sentence. Earle then completed an outpatient drug treatment program at the Cedarwood Centre in Hendersonville, Tennessee. As a recovering heroin addict, Earle has used his experience in his songwriting.
Earle's sister, Stacey Earle, is also a musician and songwriter.
Earle is out-spoken with his political views, and often addresses them in his lyrics and in interviews. Politically he identifies as a socialist, but tends to vote for Democratic candidates, despite not agreeing entirely with their politics. During the 2016 election he expressed support for Bernie Sanders, whom he considered to have pushed Hillary Clinton to the left on important issues.
He is a vocal opponent of capital punishment, which he considers his primary area of political activism. Several of his songs have provided descriptions of the experiences of death row inmates. He is also pro-choice on abortion, and has argued that rich Americans have always had access to abortions, and that the political issue in the US is really whether poor women should have access. His novel I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive describes the life of a morphine-addicted doctor in San Antonio before Roe v. Wade who treats gunshot wounds and provides illegal abortions to poor women.
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