Steve Earle - Hard Way
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Artist: Steve EarleEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-02-06
Music Label: Mca Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Other Kind
- Promise You Anything
- Esmeralda's Hollywood
- Hopeless Romantics
- This Highway's Mine (Roadmaster)
- Billy Austin
- Justice in Ontario
- Have Mercy
- When the People Find Out
- Country Girl
- Regular Guy
- West Nashville Boogie
- Close Your Eyes
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Free Music Review: The Hard Way, Indeed....
Hit: 5 Stars
This was the last Steve Earle cd I thoroughly enjoyed and incidentally, was the last one he did (that we're aware of...)while indulging in the "ecstacies" of drug addiction. This Steve was emaciated, unpredictable, and, in my opinion, at the peak of his creativity. It was the last recording session that incorporated that trademark 80's Steve Earle sizzle : razor sharp, digital production, with what I consider to be the best version of the Dukes ever assembled, Steve's fiery, angry and deliberate vocal delivery, and guitar power that peeled the paint off the walls. Man, I miss that. The only "political" reference would be the anti-death penalty "Billy Austin" in which Earle sings, in the first person, about a 29 yr old that's "quarter Cherokee I'm told" who kills a service station attendant while robbing the place and won't say "...I don't deserve to die". Earle's gift has always been putting flesh on stories about real people in real life, dealing with real situations without being "preachy" and this work follows that direction. "Have Mercy" is a little collage of three different stories in which reasonably good people do bad things for reasons that we tend to offer a little mercy to once we've heard their perspectives. The opening track, "The Other Kind", is my favorite with classic lines galore: "I'm the apple of my Momma's eye, and my Daddy's worst fears realised". "Esmerelda's Hollywood" is a truly great piece of penmanship in which the title character is representative of the many young female hopefuls who came to Tinsel Land with big dreams and wound up ghosts, haunting the corner of Hollywood and Vine. I don't like the stuff Earle has done after "El Corazon" as it is too lo-fi and garagy sounding with Earle mumbling and hardly singing at all; I dearly love everything from "The Hard Way" back: full of fire, hunger, and an intense desire to portray simple life as if it were on the big screen of a small town drive-in. John Steinbeck would have been proud.
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Special low price import edition of his 1990 album released through MCA. 'I defend The Hard Way to the death, because I almost died in the process of making it', Steve Earle told a reporter in 2000 & he wasn't just being melodramatic. Earle's well-documented addiction to heroin & cocaine was spiraling out of control in 1990 while he was holed up in Memphis recording The Hard Way. 13 tracks in all.Country Music CDs
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