Steve Earle

American blues, country, folk and rock singer Steve Earle (born Fort Monroe, Virginia, January 17, 1955) grew up in Texas, then moved to Nashville, where he made his career with his band, The Dukes. His rootsy, committed songs were quickly noticed on his first album, the exemplary Guitar Town (1986). Others followed at regular intervals, making Steve Earle a major songwriter of his time, in the wake of Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt, to whom he dedicated the album Townes (2009). The albums follow one another with consistency and quality: Copperhead Road (1988), Train a Comin' (1995), I Feel Alright (1996) and El Corazon (1997). After overcoming serious drug problems, Steve Earle returned to his best. In the 2000s, the country rocker stays true to his roots with Transcendental Blues (2000), Jerusalem (2002) and The Revolution Starts...Now (2004). 2011 saw the release of I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, followed by The Low Highway in 2013. In 2015, his sixteenth album Terraplane is released. As usual, Steve Earle doesn't wait more than two years to set a new milestone in his discography, and in 2017 releases So You Wanna Be an Outlaw, the title of which refers to the delinquent tendencies he had as a teenager when listening to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Steve Earle digs deeper into nostalgia with Guy, a tribute album to Guy Clark, one of his musical role models. In 2020, he reunited with his band The Dukes for an album, Ghosts of West Virginia, whose songs, performed live as part of the Coal Country show , evoke life in the mines of Appalachia, as well as the Upper Big Branch mine disaster of 2010. Three months later, he was faced with tragedy: the sudden death of his son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, who succumbed to an overdose. At the end of the year, Steve Earle recorded an album of covers from his son's repertoire, called J.T. , in tribute to his son. The album was released on January 4, 2021, the date on which Earle would have celebrated his 39th birthday.

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