I am a big Steve Earle fan. It took a while for me to get into him (to give him credit for anything beyond Copperhead Road) but I now have about a dozen of his albums. He has not put out many bad ones and some are exceptional.
Train A Comin' was recorded and released after he was released from jail after serving time for drugs and firearms offences. It was gentler and more country than his recordings prior to going to jail. It seemed that on those earlier albums he seemed to be striving to the be Country Music's Bruce Springsteen (and not doing too bad a job). This album, however, reaches back to the more acoustic leanings of his official debut Guitar Town
Buying this would be worth it for Goodbye alone. A song that could be about kicking drugs or a lover. However it also includes Mystery Train Part 2, Hometown Blues and Mercenary Song (dusting it off after about ten years) covers of The Beatles I'm Looking Through You and even the Rivers of Baylon.
He turned more electric again for his excellent next three albums (which I will write about in time) before starting to re explore bluegrass and acoustic country again. However this is an album that I play often (and loud).
Buying this would be worth it for Goodbye alone. A song that could be about kicking drugs or a lover. However it also includes Mystery Train Part 2, Hometown Blues and Mercenary Song (dusting it off after about ten years) covers of The Beatles I'm Looking Through You and even the Rivers of Baylon.
He turned more electric again for his excellent next three albums (which I will write about in time) before starting to re explore bluegrass and acoustic country again. However this is an album that I play often (and loud).
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