Guess who's coming to Air America?

Steve Earle! Garofalo and Seder just announced that Earle would soon be doing a weekend show on AAR. I can't wait! Thanks, AAR! :toast::bounce::yourock:

Steve Earle is one of my favorites and I play him all the time on my station; I can't wait to hear his show..

:shrug:

From his site http://www.steveearle.com/

August 4, 2004
Steve Earle and Artemis Chairman/CEO, Danny Goldberg will be featured on Nightline tonight (August 4). Nightline airs at 11:35pm on ABC.

Probably too late, there are more non-radio-pro celebrities to fill time...

I sure hope it happens soon . I've never heard of Steve Earl

We want Guy! We want Guy! We want Guy!

I've never heard of him. :shrug: Is he good?

i hope youre joking, but in case:

steve earle is one of the best country songwriters alive. up there with dwight yoakum, but he's topical.

his 'john walker's blues' pissed the right off royally by daring to look at john walker lindh from a nuanced point of view.

he's a populist, and he's been on a tear since he kicked heroin about what, 8 years ago?

I have never, ever heard of him. Now that he's on AAR, I will! Thanks for the info. :hi:

Steve Earle himself.

Geez, I can see being a fan but hey, I never listen to country despite being in the middle of Texas. Sorry, glad to hear you are glad though!

more rock, I'd say

and then tell us what you think.

Earle is kick-ass.

He has been quoted as saying, and this is pretty much verbatim, "My politics are somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao."

He's a good guy, extremely intelligent -- he's also suffered the pain of drug addiction, and fought his way back from it.

He's great, by the way.

Anyone catch Mike Mills on AAR?

go out now, buy 'just an american boy' and play 'america version 6.0', 'jeruselem', and 'mountain'

you will not be disappointed

Malloy and now Earle - Air America's making some good moves.

My favourite Earle song, "Conspiracy Theory", from Jerusalem:

What if I told you it was done with mirrors
What if I showed you it was all a lie
Better be careful, someone might hear ya
The walls have ears and the sky has eyes
What if I said you were only dreamin'
What you wanna bet that all you gotta do
Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screamin'
When you realize that it's all come true

Hush, now don't you believe it
Cover your head and close your eyes
Now, take it or leave it
Go back to bed
Now don't you cry

Half a million soldiers fly across the water
One in ten are never comin' back again
Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers
Don't you ever wonder who they might have been
What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas
What if you could wrestle back the hands of time
Maybe somethin' could've been done in Memphis
We wouldn't be livin' in a dream that's died

Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets
Go on and tell yourself that you don't want to know
It's best that you believe that you don't hear the footsteps
That follow you around no matter where you go
Maybe you were thinkin' that it didn't matter
Maybe you believed nobody else would care
But once you've added every little lie together
You finally find the truth was always waiting there

This is the album you must hear. It's live Steve at his best. Doing his monologues into the songs including Christmas in Washington, Conspiracy Theory, Harlan Man, Jerusalem and others.

Steve is a "hill country Texas" guy who lives in Tennessee and he's always been too rock for country, and too country for rock. He's been campaigning against the death penalty -- and Republicans -- for years.

But .... how's Steve gonna make it on live radio when his favorite word is "Cheney" with an "F"?

Saw Steve twice in his 'using' days, once on Copperhead Road tour at the Fillmore I think in 1989, then at an outdoor festival (Gathering of the Tribes, maybe?) at Shoreline around 1991. The progression of the disease between the two shows was MARKED.

Anyways, once he 'got out' I started buying his music again, starting with "I Feel Alright", which has rarely left my CD Changer in the 8 or so years it's been since I bought it. I have bought every single album he's put out since. They are all friggin' brilliant, but 'I Feel Alright' and 'El Corazon' are the two best without question in my opinion.

Anyways, I got word one night in late 2002 that Steve was going to be playing a solo gig at Amoeba Records on Ashbury Street in SF in, like, 40 minutes. I FLEW up from my office in Santa Clara, made it just in time to catch the beginning of a 8 (or so) song set. It was just days after Jerusalem came out. Along with some cuts from that album (the song Jerusalem was particularly moving) he played "Valentines Day" on the acoustic, I called my recently ex-GF who I had used to play/sing that song to, and she listened to the whole thing on the cell, very jealous I was there w/o her (too BAD!)

Afterward, I bought the cd, got in line, got it signed, and got to talk w/him for about a minute about his sobriety (was trying to get sober from painkillers myself at the time) and he was totally encouraging and inspirational just in those few seconds I got to speak with him. It was seriously a dream come true to shake the guy's hand and exchange words and tell him how much he and his music meant to me.

If he's anywhere near as good a radio host as he is a musician, he could really do some fantastic things for the progressive cause whilst on AAR.

ROCK ON STEVE!!!

(
and to all you out there who don't know his music, here's the order to buy his post-smack CD's, IMHO:
1) I Feel Alright (absolute stone-cold CLASSIC, 5 stars, runs the gamut of his styles, and every song is just brilliant. this one album of his BURIES the 'greatest hits' of 99% of the artists out there...his duet w/Lucinda Williams at the end is one of the best songs ever made, as are Valentines Day and Hardcore Troubadour)
2) El Corazon (leans more towards the rockin' side of his catalog, nearly every song here is also great, but some of the rock might be too 'hard' for some fans of his more 'country' material)
3) Train A' Comin (great acoustic set, his first album after 'kicking', the song 'goodbye' w/Emmylou Harris is about enough to bring you to tears if you're suffering any kind of profound 'loss' at the time you hear it)
4) Transcendental Blues (another solid offering, very diverse, could've been better with the omission of a couple weak tracks - the tunes with the Irish jug band are among my faves - such happy sounding tunes!)
5) The Mountain (with the Del McCoury Band - brilliant IF you like bluegrass)
6) Jerusalem (has some great tunes, by no means a bad album, but somewhat short, and just not quite up to the level of the previous 5 - still better then 99% of what's out there, though!)
7) Sidetracks (collection of b-sides and outtakes - has some real good tunes on it, just not as solid for obvious reasons - mostly for the 'completist', definitely buy this one last...

Copperhead Road, Guitar Town, and Exit-O are also fully worthwhile releases, but I prefer his 'sober' stuff as a whole. the only really weak album of his is 'the hard way' - only three or four really good tunes on that one - 'the other kind' being one of them, a classic
'rebel without a cause' type-song
)

an I believe that one fine day
all the children of abraham
will lay down their swords forever in
Jerusalem

I'm a new-ish Steve Earle fan and I saw him live last fall here in Durham, NC and then went and bought all his CD's. I was hooked on his smart and political lyrics and just plain good music.

His concert was fantastic. And he had a lot of political commentary between songs too.

If I recall, they tried to 'Dixie Chick' Steve Earle's career when he released "John Walker's Blues" a song he wrote about John Walker Lindh (the so-called 'American Taliban').

Steve Earle eventually told the fascists to kiss his ass.

Read about that here, if you haven't already:

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/earle_steve/767505/album.jhtml

Track Listing:

01 The Revolution Starts ... Now
02 Home to Houston
03 Rich Man's War
04 Warrior
05 The Gringo's Tale
06 Condi, Condi
07 F the CC
08 Comin' Around
09 I Thought You Should Know
10 The Seeker
11 The Revolution Starts Now