Steve Earle & The Dukes new album GUY is now streaming in full. Check it out in this week’s edition of the New Yorker.
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Rescheduled dates for Steve Earle's in-store solo performances have been announced for Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles. A new Toronto date has also been added. See below for details.
Portland - 3/31 at Music Millennium @6pm
Seattle - 4/1 at Easy St Records @7pm
https://easystreetonline.com/NewsItem/8263
https://www.facebook.com/events/301119920581403/
Los Angeles - 4/2 at Amoeba Hollywood @6pm
https://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/upcoming/detail-4694/
Toronto - 4/8 at Sonic Boom @7PM
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES RETURN WITH GUY MARCH 29th, 2019
16-SONG SET COMPRISED OF SONGS WRITTEN BY THE LEGENDARY GUY CLARK
FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES BY EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL, TERRY ALLEN, JERRY JEFF WALKER, MICKEY RAPHAEL & MORE
NPR MUSIC PREMIERES “DUBLIN BLUES” TODAY
Steve Earle & The Dukes are set to return with GUY on March 29th, 2019. A return to New West Records, the 16-song set is comprised of songs written by one of his two primary songwriting mentors, the legendary Guy Clark. GUY appears ten years after his Grammy Award winning album TOWNES, his tribute to his other songwriting mentor, Townes Van Zandt. Produced by Earle and recorded by his longtime production partner Ray Kennedy, GUY features his latest, and possibly best, incarnation of his backing band The Dukes including Kelley Looney on bass, Chris Masterson on guitar, Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle & mandolin, Ricky Ray Jackson on pedal steel guitar, and Brad Pemberton on drums & percussion. GUY also features guest appearances by fellow Guy Clark cohorts Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Mickey Raphael, Shawn Camp, Verlon Thompson, Gary Nicholson, and the photographer Jim McGuire.
Steve Earle first met Guy Clark after hitchhiking from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. A few months after his arrival, he found himself taking over for a young Rodney Crowell as bassist in Guy’s band. “No way I could get out of doing this record,” says Earle. “When I get to the other side, I didn’t want to run into Guy having made the TOWNES record and not one about him.”
“Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark were like Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to me.” The mercurial Van Zandt (1944-1997) who once ordered his teenage disciple to chain him to a tree in hopes that it would keep him from drinking, was the On The Road quicksilver of youth. Clark, 33 at the time Earle met him, was a longer lasting, more mellow burn. “When it comes to mentors, I’m glad I had both,” says Earle. “If you asked Townes what it’s all about, he’d hand you a copy of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. If you asked Guy the same question, he’d take out a piece of paper and teach you how to diagram a song, what goes where. Townes was one of the all-time great writers, but he only finished three songs during the last fifteen years of his life. Guy had cancer and wrote songs until the day he died...he painted, he built instruments, he owned a guitar shop in the Bay Area where the young Bobby Weir hung out. He was older and wiser. You hung around with him and knew why they call what artists do disciplines. Because he was disciplined.”
“GUY wasn’t really a hard record to make,” Earle says. “We did it fast, five or six days with almost no overdubbing. I wanted it to sound live...When you’ve got a catalog like Guy’s and you’re only doing sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.
Today, NPR Music has premiered the album’s first single and lead off track “Dublin Blues” along with a nearly 30-minute conversation between Earle and NPR’s Bob Boilen for an edition of All Songs Considered. Hear it HERE.
There was another reason, Earle said, he couldn’t “get out of” making GUY. “You know,” he said, “as you live your life, you pile up these regrets. I’ve done a lot of things that might be regrettable, but most of them I don’t regret because I realize I couldn’t have done anything else at the time. With Guy, however, there was this thing. When he was sick --- he was dying really for the last ten years of his life --- he asked me if we could write a song together. We should do it ‘for the grandkids,’ he said. Well, I don’t know...at the time, I still didn’t co-write much, then I got busy. Then Guy died and it was too late. That, I regret.”
Like the TOWNES record, GUY is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures.
GUY will be available on compact disc, across digital retailers, standard black vinyl, limited edition blue vinyl available at Independent Retailers, an extremely limited-to-200 clear vinyl edition available at retailers in Texas & Tennessee, a limited autographed edition available at Barnes & Noble stores, and limited edition red vinyl exclusively available for pre-order now via NEW WEST RECORDS.
Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts. What followed was a varied array of releases including the Grammy Award Winning albums The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), andTOWNES (2009). A true Renaissance man, Earle has become a novelist, a film, TV, and stage actor, playwright, record producer, and radio host. Earlier this year, he appeared in the off-Broadway play Samara, for which he also wrote the score that The New York Times called “exquisitely subliminal.” 2018 marked the 30th Anniversary of his legendary album Copperhead Road. GUY is Steve Earle’s 19th studio album.
GUY Track Listing:
Dublin Blues
L.A. Freeway
Texas 1947
Desperados Waiting For A Train
Rita Ballou
The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
The Randall Knife
Anyhow I Love You
That Old Time Feeling
Heartbroke
The Last Gunfighter Ballad
Out In The Parking Lot
She Ain’t Going Nowhere
Sis Draper
New Cut Road
Old Friends
Steve Earle returns to The Town Hall in NYC for the 4th annual John Henry's Friends Benefit Concert, presented by City Winery, celebrating the Keswell School's work in providing education for children and young adults with autism.
With Special Guest appearances by Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, and The Mastersons
VIP Tickets available now at the link using pre-sale code: OUTLAW
https://citywinery.com/newyork/steveearleandfriends/
General Onsale - Thursday, October 25th
Long time Dukes crew member and Brother on the Road.
Steve Earle is honored to join Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Lila Downs, and Graham Nash on the Lantern Tour this fall to stand with families seeking safety at our border. Proceeds go to the Women's Refugee Commission.
Learn more at thelanterntour.org
Tickets on sale for D.C., Collingswood, and Boston.
Check out Music Master Camp's video with Steve Earle regarding Camp Copperhead. For registration and additional info, go to www.campcopperhead.com .
JUST ANNOUNCED! LSD Tour: Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle & The Dukes, and Dwight Yoakam! The pre-sale exclusive to Steve Earle & The Dukes' fans starts this Monday, March 26th at 10AM local time (password: STEVE). Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, March 30th at 10AM local time. King Leg will be opening the show as Special Guest on the tour. Presented by SiriusXM Radio. List of dates below. Get more info here: https://bit.ly/2IGU4HE
LSD TOUR DATES:
TUE 6/12 Boston, MA - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
WED 6/13 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
FRI 6/15 Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
SAT 6/16 Gilford, NH - Bank of NH Pavilion
SUN 6/17 Oxon Hill, MD - MGM National Harbor
TUE 6/19 Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion
WED 6/20 Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
THU 6/21 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
WED 8/1 San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
FRI 8/3 San Diego, CA - Open Air Theatre
SAT 8/4 Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
FRI 8/10 Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater
SAT 8/11 Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
SUN 8/12 Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater
TUE 8/14 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
THU 8/16 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
FRI 8/17 Rochester, MI - Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
SAT 8/18 Indianapolis, IN - Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn
Steve Earle & The Dukes are excited for the upcoming Copperhead Road 30th Anniversary Tour. All dates and ticket links are available at: www.steveearle.com/tour
Join Steve Earle and Special Guests at his Annual Songwriting Camp June 25-28, 2018 at Full Moon Resort in Upstate New York.
Tickets include all workshops, private performances, open mics, lodging and meals. Space is limited so register soon to secure your spot at Camp Copperhead!
www.campcopperhead.com
