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Post by Brian on Jun 5, 2017 23:00:20 GMT -8
That neat 95-second report ran on TV stations in Canada last week. The new album, "So You Wannabe an Outlaw," comes out June 16. On July 1, Steve Earle and the Dukes will embark on a tour that doesn't end until October 1. So far, 57 dates are scheduled, back and forth across the U.S. and Canada.
Initially, the only Los Angeles County gig was Friday, August 11, at the Troubadour. I considered missing my first Montrose Peace Vigil in years, but decided that I wasn't up to enduring Hollywood and West Hollywood traffic and trying to park on a Friday evening. That concert sold out, but last Thursday the Troubadour announced another on Saturday, August 12. For tickets:
www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1498430?utm_medium=459899
I love all three songs that I've heard from the album. This is "Lookin' for a Woman," the official video released last week.
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Post by Brian on Jun 14, 2017 23:00:25 GMT -8
Before Steve Earle and the Dukes hit the road next month, Steve and his guitar will play solo shows at seven record stores, starting today in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is promoting his appearance there at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, June 21: www.amoeba.com/live-shows/upcoming/detail-4070/If Steve solicits requests, I'll nominate his acoustic anti-war masterpiece, "Rich Man's War," from "The Revolution Starts Now" album in 2004. Sadly, this song is just as relevant today.
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Post by Brian on Jun 24, 2017 23:03:53 GMT -8
Steve Earle performs "This Land Is Your Land" at Good Records in Dallas.
That's how Steve opened his 40-minute set at Amoeba Music in Hollywood last Wednesday. He got a great turnout of fans of all ages and ethnicities who also heard seven songs from his just released album, "So You Wannabe an Outlaw." Steve told us that it was probably the least political album he's ever made because as he was writing the songs last year, he couldn't imagine that anyone but Hillary would be president when the album came out.
Anni and I got to the store an hour early so we could shop with fewer people in the aisles. Big changes at Ameoba: the CD area of the floor space has again shrunk considerably, and new and used CD's are now combined. Country music was moved into the other room with classical and jazz. Instead, there are racks of merchandise like t-shirts. Anni spotted Steve Earle browsing in the expanded book section.
I'm besotted by the new album. Here's the official video of the title song featuring Willie Nelson:
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Post by Brian on Aug 15, 2017 23:00:44 GMT -8
"News from Colorado" might be my favorite song from the new album. That clip was shot live in Nashville for SiriusXM radio last June.
Anni and I caught Steve Earle and the Dukes last Saturday, August 12, at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, about halfway into their three-month tour of the U.S. and Canada. I cannot think of another artist who would open a concert with six new songs -- and later, Steve played four more from "So You Wanna Be an Outlaw." I made notes, so I can verify that we got exactly the same set as this list of the previous evening's sold out show at the Troubadour, all 24 songs before the encore in the same order:
www.setlist.fm/setlist/steve-earle-and-the-dukes/2017/troubadour-west-hollywood-ca-63e57aab.html
Quite a generous set list. Steve performed his two big hits, "Guitar Town" and "Copperhead Road" -- both nearly 30 years old -- of course. Only a few of his 16 studio albums were not represented. This time, nothing from "The Revolution Starts Now." But I got to hear the title songs from the two classic albums that preceded it, "Jerusalem" and "Transcendental Blues," a real treat. Perhaps the biggest surprises for me were the traditional song "I Know You Rider," most famously covered by the Grateful Dead, and "Mississippi, It's Time," a single Steve released after I last saw him in concert in 2015, with proceeds benefiting the Southern Poverty Law Center. That song urging Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle flag from its state flag was in the set list on this tour before the events in Charlottesville, but it was even more stunning on Saturday.
My only anxiety all evening was whether we would be able to sit down inside. The Troubadour's layout has not changed since I first went there as a teenager in the 1970's, but I haven't seen folding chairs in front of the stage for years. Anni and I lined up an hour before the doors opened, behind just a couple dozen of Steve's biggest fans. Yet the benches in the balcony filled up immediately. We lucked into the best seats in the house -- two of the eight stools behind the bar. We could see all of the band except the drummer. The sold out crowd -- more than half in their 50's or older -- filled every space between the stage and the other side of the bar, where there were no stools. Unlike the Roxy, the Troubadour does not maintain a walkway to the restrooms or the door. So Steve, please play the Canyon or the Coach House next time. We won't mind the drive.
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Post by Sharon W on Aug 16, 2017 10:59:04 GMT -8
Thanks for the great review! Wish we could have been there but can't be two places at once. We were at the Forum for Neil Diamond Saturday night. Bill hasn't put up all his photos yet but this is his anthem to immigration from an earlier show in the tour.
Let's hope Steve Earle plays the Rose or Saban, shorter drives. In any case let us know if he anounces more dates maybe we'll finally find a show when we're mutually available.
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Post by Brian on Aug 17, 2017 23:00:20 GMT -8
I'm with you, Sharon -- the Rose in Pasadena or the Saban in Beverly Hills would be best. How about the Wiltern at Wilshire and Western? Steve Earle will appear in seven of the eight cities on the 2017 Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees Tour to benefit the Jesuit Refugee Service and UNHCR, including Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 10. Joan Baez is headlining. The only other artists announced so far are Patty Griffin, the Mastersons and Alynda Segarra. But the tour's website says that Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Dave Matthews and Buddy Miller will also appear along the way -- check back with this link to see who's being added and where: jrsusa.org/campaign_detail?PTN=PROMO-20160707043431&TN=PROJECT-20170815013041Tickets go on sale for the Wiltern at 10 a.m. today: concerts1.livenation.com/event/0900530ECC323C3E?c=EML_LN_1800811&camefrom=EMLN_1800811Maybe Steve will play "Goodbye Michaelangelo," his elegy to his friend and mentor Guy Clark, from the new album. This live solo performance was published by a Chicago public radio station last week.
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2017 23:00:13 GMT -8
"I stepped off one tour bus and onto another," Steve Earle told the audience last Tuesday at the Wiltern. Turned out that Steve decided to play all eight cities on the 2017 Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees Tour immediately after crisscrossing the U.S. and Canada for three months with the Dukes. Sharon started a thread on this message board about that evening: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/713/lampedusa-benefit-show-10-reviewTwo members of the Dukes -- Eleanor Whitmore and Chris Masterson -- supplied fiddle and guitar along with their harmonies and one of their own songs. They record albums and open for Steve Earle and the Dukes as The Mastersons. I also knew Steve, Joan Baez and Lucinda Williams, of course, but I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of most of the younger artists. Brandi Carlisle was a revelation for her voice, guitar playing and her songwriting. I also loved the format with the performers seated in a semi-circle, trading songs. I particularly enjoyed watching them appreciate each other's songs while figuring out how to join in, or not, as if they were hanging out in somebody's living room in Austin or Nashville. Anni and I feel blessed to have seen and heard Steve Earle each time he's come to L.A. this year, starting with his solo show at Amoeba Records in June, then the concerts at the Troubadour smack in the middle of his mammoth tour with the Dukes, and finally Lampedusa at the Wiltern. The new CD remains on constant rotation in our house and car. It ranks among his best albums -- and all of them are great. Let me close with a clip I just found on You Tube, a solo performance of "Every Part of Me" from 2011. I dedicate this song to Anni.
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Post by anni on Nov 25, 2017 9:52:00 GMT -8
Steve Earle's song "F the CC" from 2004 hits harder today with a different Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission. Say goodbye to fairness on the Internet for hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers. Warning: adult language!
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Post by Sharon W on Nov 25, 2017 10:09:53 GMT -8
That is an appropriate song for these days but I don't think we should ask Bill and Jeanne to learn it for the corner! I bet we could get teens to sing along but it would be wrong - lol.
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Post by Jeanne on Nov 25, 2017 11:09:06 GMT -8
That is an appropriate song for these days but I don't think we should ask Bill and Jeanne to learn it for the corner! I bet we could get teens to sing along but it would be wrong - lol. LOL. I would prefer learning "Rich Man's War." I've tried in the past and found the phrasing to be a bit sophisticated for this poor country girl. Bill's sense of timing is much stronger. Maybe we could learn it together.
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