Steve Earle

Sounds from beyond the Shed 159 “Why can’t people just be nice?”

October 18, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 4

Regular readers will know that I occasionally head over to France and Belgium to show people round the battlefields and commemorative sites of World War I and sometimes II. Last week it was the turn of […]

Preview – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024: from San Francisco to your screen

October 3, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

Since its inception in 2001, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has been a fixture in the americana and roots music calendar. Founded by Warren Hellman, a San Francisco venture capitalist, HSB has been held each year in […]

Live Review: Steve Earle + Zandi Holup, Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, Wilmington, North Carolina – 31st August 2024

September 11, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

Steve Earle is touring with a new acoustic album titled “Alone Again Live,” going back to his roots as a troubadour with a guitar, a harmonica, a backpack full of songs, and some truths to tell. […]

Artwork for Steve Earle album "Alone Again (Live)"

Steve Earle “Alone Again (Live)”

July 24, 2024 Peter Thompson 0

Excellent Steve Earle solo acoustic live release offers a glimpse of the hard-core troubadour doing what he does best. Earle has gone full circle, back to how he started out; standing on a stage by himself, […]

Preview: Steve Earle to release new live album “Alone Again (Live)”

July 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

Last summer Steve Earle brought his solo acoustic Alone Again tour to the UK including a great evening at the Barbican in London. The set list that night ran to 23 songs starting with his cover […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 3

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]