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Steve Earle Transcendental Blues Limited Remastered Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
Warner Bros. Records will release remastered versions of six classic Steve Earle albums in September 2017. After Steve Earle redrew a handful of musical maps with 1997’s El Corazon, it was surprising to hear the troubadour team with Del McCoury on the unabashed bluegrass set The Mountain. In truth, El Corazon paved the way for the Grammy-nominated Transcendental Blues, released in 2000.
Here Earle returns back to the sprawl of El Corazon. There’s Spartan, yearning folk in “Over Yonder,” boot-scooting ‘grass on “Until the Day I Die,” and ear-pinning rock on “Everyone’s in Love with You.” Earle rescues the connection between Ireland and American traditionalism with the mandolin-driven “Galway Girl” and even seems inspired by fables with “The Boy Who Never Cried.”
Earle shows again and again that he’s a consummate indexer, demonstrating how American music crisscrosses distinct styles. As a singer, Earle is alternately snarly, wispy, guttural, and earnest. In short, he’s able to shake the ear with a fresh musical twist and then settle the listener with all the broad-minded smarts he’s relied upon since his mid-’90s comeback.
Featured Tracks:
1. Transcendental Blues
2. Everyone’s In Love with You
3. Another Town
4. I Can’t Wait
5. The Boy Who Never Cried
6. Steve’s Last Ramble
7. The Galway Girl
8. Lonelier Than This
9. Wherever I Go
10. When I Fall
11. I Don’t Want to Lose You Yet
12. Halo ‘Round the Moon
13. Until the Day I Die
14. All of My Life
15. Over Yonder (Jonathan’s Song)
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