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Essential Steve Earle

Steve Earle
Reviewed by Alanna Nash | Mar 05, 1993
EW's GRADE
A+

Details Lead Performance: Steve Earle; Genres: Country/Bluegrass, Reissues

With Guitar Town, his 1986 debut, Steve Earle etched a grimy portrait of smalltown America that was far bleaker and more realistic than anything out of the whitewashed imaginations of Nashville's Music Row. Essential Steve Earle shows Earle moving from rockabilly to rock and captures the hostility and disillusionment of the nation's itinerant underbelly. A+

Originally posted Mar 05, 1993 Published in issue #160 Mar 05, 1993 Order article reprints

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