Steve Earle

  • The Salon Interview: Steve Earle

    The radical country rocker and composer of "John Walker's Blues" blasts the war on Iraq, denounces the death penalty and explains why ex-druggies believe in God.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 13, 2002

  • Real Life Rock Top 10

    By Greil Marcus September 23, 2002

  • A cool cowpoke gets political

    Steve Earle, a new disc under his belt, talks about his tumultuous career -- a hair-raising ride that has included many wives, an ugly romance with heroin, and watching a man die.
    By Mark J. Miller August 29, 2002

  • From MTV to the Taliban

    Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith are writing songs about terrorists and the Taliban. So why is country maverick Steve Earle getting all the heat?
    By Anders Smith Lindall July 25, 2002

  • "Doghouse Roses" by Steve Earle

    An acclaimed country music songwriter makes his fiction debut in a collection of stories straight from the bar at the Tip Top Lounge.
    By King Kaufman June 22, 2001

  • Music 2000

    Call it the year of the dogs: Woof-woof. Still, there were 25 records worth listening to again and again.
    By Joe Heim December 21, 2000

  • Sharps and Flats

    Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Ani DiFranco and others rework '60s classics for "Steal This Movie." But does Bob Dylan need updating?
    By Seth Mnookin August 2, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Living literary character (and rocker) Steve Earle plays a noisy show in New York for -- who else? -- a bunch of literary types.
    By Seth Mnookin July 24, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Steve Earle, once dubbed the "hillbilly Springsteen," learns that back roads "never carry you where you want 'em to."
    By David Hill June 8, 2000

  • The book on film

    Director Martin Scorsese presents a new series of books about film, starring James Agee, Vachel Lindsay, David Selznick and "2001."
    By Sarah Vowell May 10, 2000

  • Lucinda Williams

    With her gorgeously "flawed" voice, the genre-bending singer has exquisitely mapped out the South -- as well as her own heart.
    By Elizabeth Bukowski January 11, 2000

  • "Boy, you sing like your granddaddy"

    Hank Williams III pays a debt to Nashville -- and looks toward Texas for real country music.
    By David Bowman November 3, 1999

  • Till death do us part

    On the road with Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and the Indigo Girls.
    By -- Meredith Ochs April 21, 1999

  • Road warrior

    David Bowman talks to Lucinda Williams about her new album 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'
    By David Bowman July 1, 1998

  • The Mavericks

    By John Milward April 14, 1998

  • "The Horse Whisperer" Soundtrack

    By Joe Heim April 6, 1998

  • Sharps and Flats: Cheri Knight

    By Meredith Ochs March 9, 1998
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