Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection

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Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection
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ReleasedJuly 30, 1996
RecordedSeptember 30, 1985 – October 6, 1990
Genre Country, Country rock
Label Hip-O
Steve Earle chronology
Essential Steve Earle
(1993)
Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection
(1996)
Angry Young Man: The Very Best Of Steve Earle
(1999)
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Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection is a compilation album by Steve Earle, drawn from his years with the MCA label. The album was released on July, 1996.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Guitar Town"
  2. "Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)" (Richard Bennett, Steve Earle)
  3. "Hillbilly Highway" (Steve Earle, Jimbeau Hinson)
  4. "My Old Friend the Blues"
  5. "Fearless Heart"
  6. "Think It Over" (Richard Bennett, Steve Earle)
  7. "Someday"
  8. "Goodbye's All We've Got Left"
  9. "State Trooper" (live) (Bruce Springsteen)
  10. "I Ain't Ever Satisfied"
  11. "Nowhere Road" (Steve Earle, Reno Kling)
  12. "The Rain Came Down" (Steve Earle, Michael Woody)
  13. "I Love You Too Much"
  14. "The Week of Living Dangerously"
  15. "Continental Trailways Blues"
  16. "Six Days on the Road" (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery)
  17. "Copperhead Road" – 4:32
  18. "Snake Oil" – 3:30
  19. "Even When I'm Blue" – 4:14
  20. "Devil's Right Hand" – 3:04
  21. "Nothing But a Child" – 4:25
  22. "Johnny Come Lately" – 4:08
  23. "Dead Flowers" (live) – 5:38 (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  24. "The Other Kind" – 5:11
  25. "When the People Find Out" – 4:13
  26. "Billy Austin" – 6:17
  27. "She's About a Mover" (live) – 4:10 (Doug Sahm)
  28. "West Nashville Boogie" (live) – 7:41

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References

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