| Essential Steve Earle | ||||
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| Released | March 2, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Country, Country rock | |||
| Length | 46:13 | |||
| Label | MCA Records | |||
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Essential Steve Earle is the second compilation album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle. The album was released in 1993.
All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Guitar Town" | 2:33 | |
| 2. | "Hillbilly Highway" | Earle, Jimbeau Hinson | 3:36 |
| 3. | "The Devil's Right Hand" | 2:59 | |
| 4. | "Goodbye's All We've Got Left" | 3:16 | |
| 5. | "Six Days on the Road" | Earl Green, Carl Montgomery | 3:05 |
| 6. | "Someday" | 3:46 | |
| 7. | "Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)" | Richard Bennett, Earle | 3:58 |
| 8. | "Copperhead Road" | 4:28 | |
| 9. | "The Rain Came Down" | Steve Earle, Michael Woody | 4:11 |
| 10. | "I Ain't Ever Satisfied" | 4:00 | |
| 11. | "Nowhere Road" | Earle, Reno Kling | 2:47 |
| 12. | "The Week of Living Dangerously" | 4:26 | |
| 13. | "Continental Trailways Blues" | 3:08 |
Stephen Fain Earle is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. Earle has had a lengthy career in alternative country, and has branched out into multiple genres of rock music, bluegrass, folk music and blues.
Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award-winning song "Sunny Came Home".
Copperhead Road is the third studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1988. The album is often referred to as Earle's first "rock record"; Earle himself calls it the world's first blend of heavy metal and bluegrass, and the January 26, 1989 review of the album by Rolling Stone suggested that the style be called "power twang".
The Mountain is the eighth studio album by Steve Earle, backed by the Del McCoury Band, and released in 1999.
Transcendental Blues is the ninth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 2000. It features Sharon Shannon on the track "The Galway Girl". The album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category.
Guitar Town is the debut studio album from American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released on March 5, 1986. It topped the Billboard country album charts, and the title song reached #7 on the country singles charts. Earle was also nominated for two 1987 Grammy Awards, Best Male Country Vocalist and Best Country Song, for the title track.
Jerusalem is the 10th studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2002. A concept album, it has a political theme, and contains songs about a post–September 11, 2001 world.
Exit 0 is the second studio album from American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 1987. Earle was nominated for two 1988 Grammy Awards for songs on the album, Best Male Country Vocalist for "Exit 0" and Best Country Song for "Nowhere Road".
The Revolution Starts Now is the 11th studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2004.
The Hard Way is the fourth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1990. Earle is backed by the Dukes. The album is dedicated to Emilio Lorenzo Ensenat (1930–90).
Train a Comin' is the fifth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1995. In addition to Earle, it features Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, Roy Huskey, and Emmylou Harris. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
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.
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steve Earle is a compilation album by Steve Earle. The album was released on August 19, 2003.
Washington Square Serenade is the 12th studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2007. The album features the singer's wife Allison Moorer on the track "Days Aren't Long Enough," and the Brazilian group Forro in the Dark on the track "City of Immigrants." The track "Way Down in the Hole," written by Tom Waits, was used as the opening theme song for the fifth and final season of the HBO series The Wire, on which Earle played a recurring character named Walon. The album was released on September 25, 2007, on New West Records. In February 2008 it won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
American singer and songwriter Steve Earle has released twenty-one studio albums, including collaborations with the Del McCoury Band and Shawn Colvin. Earle's work reflects a wide range of styles, including bluegrass, multiple styles of rock, folk, blues and country. He or his labels have also released six live albums and eight compilation albums.
Justin Townes Earle was an American singer-songwriter and musician. After his debut, EP Yuma (2007), he released eight full-length albums. He was recognized with an Americana Music Award for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2009 and for Song of the Year in 2011 for "Harlem River Blues". His father is alternative country artist Steve Earle.
Townes is the 13th studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2009. It is an album on which he pays tribute to his friend and mentor, the late singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt by covering his songs. According to a New West Records press release, "The songs selected for Townes were the ones that meant the most to Earle and the ones he personally connected to. Some of the selections chosen were songs that Earle has played his entire career and others he had to learn specifically for recording.
The Low Highway is the 15th studio album by singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2013. The album features two songs co-written by Earle and Lucia Micarelli: "Love's Gonna Blow My Way", "After Mardi Gras". Two songs from the album, "After Mardi Gras" and "That All You Got?", are featured in the HBO TV Series Treme.
Terraplane is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle. An album of songs in the blues genre, it was released in 2015 through New West Records. The album sold 11,200 copies in its first week of release, debuting at number 39 on the Billboard 200.
Ghosts of West Virginia is the twentieth studio album by American country musician Steve Earle, credited to Steve Earle and the Dukes. It was released on May 22, 2020 under New West Records. Most of the songs were written for the off-Broadway play Coal Country about the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010. Earle collaborated on the play written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, drawing on interviews with survivors and families of the miners.
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