Steve Earle News

Every festival has to have at least one band like Okkervil River. Something crazy and unexpected and utterly memorable.

Mundy plays a once off intimate gig in The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton this Thursday, July 9 at 8.30pm. If you thought this boy from Birr, Co Offaly was just about big, bug-eyed pop songs such as July, Mexico, or indeed, the most downloaded song of 2007 & 2008 Galway Girl then his latest collection boasts fourteen great songs to make you throw all ...

The Roadhouse features familiar artists and songs as well as album cuts and some local country / rock bands.

Plenty of musicians pay reverence to Townes Van Zandt, but not so many look upon him as a father figure.

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Country : Steve Earle Steve Earle - Jerusalem - Perhaps one of the most underappreciated songwriters of our time, Steve Earle has never been one to do things quietly, as evidenced by his troubled past.

Recent CDs by independent-minded Americans, Canadians and Brits: Steve Earle, "Townes," produced by Earle Steve Earle didn't merely proclaim that the late Texan Townes Van Zandt was America's best songwriter.

BRILLIANT bluegrass will be the buoyant entertainment at St Bartholemew's Church when the Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys play there tomorrow.

Steve Earle's master class in storytelling was only a little more than half-filled at Memorial Hall Saturday night.

Jonathan Richman Steve Earle's first EP Pink & Black, released in 1982 found a listening ear in no less a critic then John Lomax, who send the EP to EPIC records, which signifies the start of a tumultuous and colorful career.

Paramount Theatre, June 19 "I had a friend and a teacher, and his name was Townes," offered Steve Earle in his standard introduction to Townes Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues," and Friday's show at the Paramount celebrated both aspects of their relationship: the former related through stories that have become legend, the latter manifested by Earle ...

Honey, I splashed the kids at NRH{-2}O Hey, dads, this is one day you can ignore that 'Honey do' list that keeps getting longer.

Singer-songwriter Steve Earle will pay tribute to his late friend and mentor, the songwriter and artist Townes Van Zandt, with a show on Tuesday night in Knoxville.

Posted on June 18th, 2009 3:15 AM By Jon Bream What a perfect match! Two entertaining acts of the alt-country persuasion.

"He's had more hard luck than most men could stand/ The mines was his first love but never his friend," opens "Black Lung," a tune penned by West Virginia bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens in 1969.

This band's just-released 90 Proof Lullabies , a reviewer said, "is one of those albums that you hear playing at a party that makes you immediately begin to plan how to steal said CD from the host." While we here at Connect Savannah try to discourage such behavior every chance we get, there's no denying that Christian and company are one ...

Alejandro Escovedo played in a San Francisco punk band before heading home to Texas in the '80s to immerse himself in the roots and alternative country scene.

Steve Earle belongs in the first rank of the great tradition of Texas singer-songwriters and he's been in great form since his two-year "vacation" in the early 1990s.

Singer and songwriter Steve Earle will perform at the Fine Arts Auditorium at Armstrong Atlantic State University on June 13.

Artist: Earle, Steve Something always seemed to get in the way of Steve Earle completing his tribute album to singer-songwriter and cult hero Townes Van Zandt.

As Steve Earle recounted to The New York Times' Anthony DeCurtis last month, he knew he was too deep into his own addictions when Townes Van Zandt - like Earle himself, one of the true if troubled geniuses of American songcraft - arrived to assess his peer's health.