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They are joined together now on The Mountain, a gorgeous album of new Steve Earle songs that has been brewing since he first moved to Nashville from San Antonio in 1974.īe certain of this: The Mountain is not a marriage of convenience, but a blessing. They have been together before: in the studio playing “I Still Carry You Around” on Earle’s 1997 album El Corazon onstage one night in September 1997 at the Station Inn in Nashville recording “Virginia Way/Shenandoah Breakdown” on the V-Roys’ latest, All About Town, co-produced by Earle and released on the label he co-owns (E-Squared). That Earle should choose to make a record with the Del McCoury Band ought not come as a surprise. Collectively and individually, these musicians - Del McCoury (lead vocals, guitar), sons Ronnie McCoury (mandolin, lead vocals) and Rob McCoury (banjo), and Jason Carter (fiddle) and Mike Bub (bass) - have won virtually every award the International Bluegrass Music Association offers. The senior McCoury spent a year apprenticing with Bill Monroe back in the fallow days of 1963, began leading his own group in 1967, and has in the past decade or so - no longer obliged to work part-time in the Pennsylvania woods to support his family - led the finest bluegrass band working. They are widely celebrated within that small world. That the Del McCoury Band is not a household name speaks to the shadow that obscures most bluegrass. The Del McCoury Band, who have become Earle’s most recent collaborators, wear their suits with practiced ease, and it is to them - and to the tradition they so elegantly represent - Earle wishes to show deference. He’s changed, but not that much, not that way. In the new pictures Steve Earle is wearing a dark, crisp, pin-striped suit, but that’s merely a gesture of respect. The Undertaking: Life Studies From The Dismal Trade

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© Mark Deming /TiVo Maggiori informazioni Guitar Town is slightly flawed by an overly tidy production from Emory Gordy, Jr., and Tony Brown as well as a band that never hit quite as hard as Earle's voice, and he would make many stronger and more ambitious records in the future, but Guitar Town was his first shot at showing a major audience what he could do, and he hit a bull's-eye - it's perhaps the strongest and most confident debut album any country act released in the 1980s. And even when Earle gets a bit teary-eyed on "My Old Friend the Blues" and "Little Rock 'n' Roller," he showed off a battle-scarred heart that was tougher and harder-edged than most of his competition. While Earle's songs bore a certain resemblance to the Texas outlaw ethos (think Waylon Jennings in "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" mode), they displayed a literate anger and street-smart snarl that set him apart from the typical Music Row hack, and no one in Nashville in 1986 was able (or willing) to write anything like the title song, a hilarious and harrowing tale of life on the road ("Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still can/Got a two-pack habit and motel tan") or the bitterly unsentimental account of small-town life "Someday" ("You go to school, where you learn to read and write/So you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life"), the latter of which may be the best Bruce Springsteen song the Boss didn't write. On Steve Earle's first major American tour following the release of his debut album, Guitar Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill with Dwight Yoakam one night and the Replacements another, and one listen to the album explains why - while the music was country through and through, Earle showed off enough swagger and attitude to intimidate anyone short of Keith Richards. Acquista e scarica questo album in più formati, secondo le tue esigenze.