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ALBUMSteve Earle The BBC Sessions (Live at BBC Studios Sessions) [feat. Kelly Loony, Craig Wright & D. Roberts]Steve Earle
Albums by Steve Earle
ALBUMJerry JeffSteve Earle
ALBUMJ.T.Steve Earle
ALBUMGhosts of West VirginiaSteve Earle & The Dukes
ALBUMTerraplaneSteve Earle & The Dukes
ALBUMI'll Never Get out of This World AliveSteve Earle
ALBUMTownesSteve Earle
ALBUMWashington Square SerenadeSteve Earle
ALBUMJerusalemSteve Earle
ALBUMSidetracksSteve Earle
ALBUMTranscendental BluesSteve Earle
Steve Earle's Popular Music Videos
Copperhead Road
Steve Earle
Guitar Town
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Treme Musical Performance: Gold Watch and Chain
Lucia Micarelli & Steve Earle
Someday
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Hellbent For Leather (feat. Steve Earle) [Lyric Video]
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Back to the Wall
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The Other Kind
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Artist Playlists
Steve Earle Essentials
A primer on this accomplished country music master.
Inspired by Steve Earle
The troubadours and rockers impacted by the alt-country icon.
Steve Earle: Influences
Nashville in the ‘70s was a good place to get your start.
Steve Earle: Deep Cuts
An alt-country icon's social conscience emerges.
Artist Biography
Steve Earle is a singer-songwriter and actor known for his enduring outlaw spirit and deft musical storytelling, which incorporates country, folk, blues, and rock.
∙ He learned guitar at age 11, then moved to Nashville in 1974, playing bass and writing songs for country icon Guy Clark before eventually moving to Texas.
∙ Guitar Town, his 1986 debut, topped Billboard’s Country Albums chart and was included in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
∙ A longtime critic of the death penalty, Earle wrote “Ellis Unit One”—told from a prison guard’s perspective—for the 1995 Oscar-winning film Dead Man Walking.
∙ Earle won Grammy Awards for 2004’s The Revolution Starts Now, 2007’s Washington Square Serenade, and 2009’s Townes, honoring his musical mentor Townes Van Zandt.
∙ He had roles in acclaimed TV series The Wire and Treme—the latter earning him a 2010 Emmy nomination for his song “This City.”
∙ In 2017, he made his off-Broadway debut as the narrator in experimental playwright Richard Maxwell’s Samara, for which he also composed the score.