Steve Earle at Tradewinds, Part 1
by Pete
I haven’t posted about my favorite left-wing Tennessee via Mexico via East Texas outlaw in a while. Steve Earle hasn’t been quiet lately though. He’s a modern-day renaissance man: musician, poet, protester, playwright, you name it. He jokes that he has to keep himself that busy to keep him sober. He wasn’t doing so good there for a while (in the late 80’s and early 90’s). Well, since he got sober, and inspiration took over, Steve has been hitting us hard with some great albums: I Feel Alright, Train a Comin’, El Corazon, Jerusalem, among others. In ‘98, Steve was on tour supporting one of my personal favorites, El Corazon (a tour that didn’t bring him to Phoenix, so I flew my butt to Montrose, Colorado to see him – well, actually my brother flew me).
This is a special show, folks. The locale is Tradewinds in Sea Bright, New Jersey. It’s February 6, 1998, and a certain someone is lurking in the audience watching this great show. I’ll give you part one here. In part two later this week, this certain someone hits the stage with Mr. Earle to fully complete roof tearage off the sucker.
Steve Earle & the Dukes
February 6, 1998
Sea Bright, NJ
Part One
Christmas In Washington
Here I Am
Taneytown
Hardcore Troubador
My Old Friend The Blues
Someday
If You Fall
Mystery Train Part II
You Know The Rest
Windfall (Son Volt cover)
Copperhead Road
Telephone Road
More Than I Can Do
Now She’s Gone
Ft. Worth Blues
I Feel Alright
Poison Lovers
In recent Steve Earle news, he signed with New West Records recently. I’m looking forward to good things in ‘07 from ol’ Steve.
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Pilgrim
January 27, 2010 - 10:07 pm
Tags: Del McCoury Band, Steve Earle
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I still have a bad taste in my mouth from this week’s Radio Daze piece, so I’ve been doing my best to reverse the damage with – ya know – real music. And it gets no more genuine than Steve Earle. I finally dug out this CD a couple of months ago after a few [...]
Pete’s Favorite Albums of the 00’s
December 31, 2009 - 7:56 am
Tags: Arcade Fire, band of horses, bruce springsteen, Grandaddy, M.I.A., Marah, Prince, Steve Earle, The Boss, Wilco
Posted in Ickmusic Faves | 6 comments
Quick Note: I didn’t want to bombard my Top 10 with Springsteen and Prince albums, so I chose my favorites of theirs from the 00’s. Did I spend more time with M.I.A.’s Arular than with Bruce’s Magic or Prince’s Musicology? No way. Just so you know, I limited my picks to one album per artist.
And [...]
Video: Steve Earle at Amoeba Records
November 25, 2009 - 9:18 pm
Tags: Amoeba Records, Steve Earle
Posted in Folk, Video | 1 comment
I knew I subscribed to Amoeba’s video RSS feed for a reason! Once in a while, they post a gem. Case in point today: Steve Earle.
Here’s Steve’s 45 minute in-store performance from back in May. But be sure to check out the insightful 13 minute interview too, where he discusses his early years as a [...]
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October 29, 2009 - 10:15 pm
Tags: Byrds, Calexico, CCR, Jim Croce, Little Feat, Old 97s, Paul Weller, Reverend Hortom Heat, Steve Earle
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A lot can be accomplished musically in two minutes and twenty eight seconds. What brought this to mind was a Little Feat tune I heard on my way to work recently: “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now”. It funks and it rocks & rolls and grooves…makes me wanna strut down a crowded street with a sweet [...]
Ick’s Pick (Week XIX): Steve Earle – ‘Townes’
May 14, 2009 - 10:32 pm
Tags: Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt
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I’m sitting down to write this after the improbable occurrence of just seeing Steve Earle in the 30 Rock season finale. Oh my, what an ending! It’s a kidney benefit for Jack’s dad, and a We Are the World-esque gathering of talent comes together – Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, the Beastie Boys, Rhett Miller, Sheryl [...]
Steve Earle reads for the Poetry Project
May 3, 2009 - 9:29 am
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Steve Earle reads a short piece of poetry about the passing of his father:
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Steve Earle. Letterman. Friday.
September 4, 2008 - 11:04 pm
Tags: letterman, reckless kelly, Steve Earle, zevon
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Hey Steve Earle fans, watch Letterman tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 5th). Steve will perform a Warren Zevon tune, “Reconsider Me”, in tribute to the late great Zevon who passed away 5 years ago (Sept. 7th, 2003).
I didn’t know it until tonight, but Earle recorded the song (hear it on YouTube) with Texas band Reckless Kelly [...]
Steve Earle at the Newport Folk Festival
August 13, 2008 - 10:10 pm
Tags: newport, Steve Earle
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For fellow Steve fans, NPR has a podcast of Steve’s set at the Newport Folk Festival available for free.
Get it from their site, or download from iTunes.
While you’re there, grab Jim James’s set, and Tom Waits’s entire Atlanta show. Free.
Thank you NPR.
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A Good Week for Tunes in Telluride: Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Junior Brown, and Jonny Lang
July 10, 2008 - 10:07 pm
Tags: Jonny Lang, Junior Brown, Steve Earle, telluride
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Top Left: Steve Earle works his dobro hard for the Sheridan Opera House crowd.
Top Right: Jonny Lang brings the blues in Mountain Village.
Bottom Left: Junior Brown rocks his guitar / lap-steel hybrid in Mountain Village.
Bottom Right: I ponder life’s great questions with a Franziskaner in hand.
Yes, folks, life was sweet last week. My wife and [...]
Tunes in Telluride
July 1, 2008 - 9:05 pm
Tags: Steve Earle, telluride
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It’s summer time in Arizona, which means it’s high time to hightail it out of town. This week finds me back in one of my favorite places on God’s green earth – Telluride, Colorado. I snapped the pic above this afternoon near the Nelly Mine, up in the San Juan Mountains at about 11,200 feet. [...]
January 25, 2007 - 12:47 am
Thankyou so much for this. I am a big fan of Steve and always go see him when he plays in Scotland. I have a dozen or so bootlegs of his if anyone wants to trade.
Thanks again. Gram, Aberdeen, Scotland
January 25, 2007 - 2:48 am
Fantastic stuff. And new album from Mr. E in 2007 would be cause for celebration indeed.
January 25, 2007 - 10:07 am
Thanks! I’ve been a fan since Guitar Town, and love the whole ride he’s given us. One of my favorite quotes from a reviewer I’ve long forgotten: He sounds like what Bruce Springsteen would have sounded like if he had hitchiked through Texas with a Waylon Jennings songbook. Yeh.
Brad
January 26, 2007 - 8:45 am
It’s funny that you are posting this show this week – I’ve been a Steve Earle fan for years, and last weekend I picked up Copperhead Road on vinyl for a dollar. My girlfriend and I were listening to it this weekend, and we genuinely wondered how big Earle could’ve become if he hadn’t suffered from drug addiction. And I Feel Alright is a masterpiece. Period.