Earle, Steve

Earle, Steve

▪ American musician
in full  Stephen Fain Earle 
born Jan. 17, 1955, Fort Monroe, Va., U.S.

      American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who bridged the genres of rock and country music.

      As a child growing up in Texas, Earle acquired his first guitar at age 11 and was playing proficiently two years later. Although he showed musical promise, Earle was often in trouble with the law and was disliked by local country music fans because of his long hair and precocious anti-Vietnam War stance. He left home as a teenager to live with an uncle in Houston and dropped out of high school. Making his way to Nashville, Tenn., Earle sought to establish himself as a songwriter. In the process he forged friendships with a pair of his musical idols, Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, country music “outlaws” of long standing. Earle's debut album as a performer, Guitar Town (1986), won praise from critics and was a commercial success, with both its title track and "Goodbye's All We Got Left" reaching the Top Ten on the country music chart.

      Much influenced by Van Zandt, Earle's music contains elements of country and rock yet fits wholly into neither genre. Of Earle's more than 15 albums, Copperhead Road (1988) was particularly popular. His career sometimes has been sidetracked by drug and alcohol addictions, as well as by several divorces, and he served nearly a year in prison and rehab following his conviction for narcotics possession. The turmoil of Earle's personal life is particularly evident in his album The Hard Way (1990). Earle has always exhibited political fervour (especially in his opposition to the death penalty), and his leftist leanings came through clearly on Jerusalem (2002), an agit-prop-filled album that features the controversial "John Walker's Blues," an empathetic consideration of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban.” The similarly political The Revolution Starts…Now (2004) won a Grammy Award (Best Contemporary Folk Album) in 2005, and Washington Square Serenade (2007), Earle's romantic confessional collaboration with his sixth wife, singer Allison Moorer, won another Grammy (Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album) in 2008. Earle is the author of a collection of short stories, Doghouse Roses (2001), and the subject of a film documentary, Steve Earle: Just an American Boy (2003).

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