Steve Earle

One of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of his generation, Steve Earle first won an audience as a country artist, though it didn't take long for him to demonstrate that designation was too narrow for him. Earle's music runs the gamut from country (1986's Guitar Town), bluegrass (1999's The Mountain), and rock (1988's Copperhead Road) to folk (2007's Washington Square Serenade, and blues (2015's Terraplane). His populist lyrical stance, literate yet down to earth, finds room for the personal and the political, writing about the stuff of everyday lives as well as the force...