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Steve Earle

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Steve Earle

November 13, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 2
In 1974, aged 20, Earle hitchhiked to Nashville to find one of his favourite songwriters, Guy Clark. Earle managed to blag a role in Clark’s band as a bassist and played on his 1975 album “Old […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 159 “Why can’t people just be nice?”

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

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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 […]
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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. […]
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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, […]

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A second tribute album to the songs of the great Jesse Malin. There can’t be many Americana music fans who weren’t deeply moved by the incredibly sad news back in 2023 that Jesse Malin, one of […]

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