Steve Earle - Revolution Starts Now
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Artist: Steve EarleEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Music Label: Artemis Records
Soundtracks:
- The Revolution Starts?
- Home To Houston
- Rich Man's War
- Warrior
- The Gringo's Tale
- Condi, Condi
- F The CC
- Comin' Around
- I Thought You Should Know
- The Seeker
- The Revolution Starts Now
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Free Music Review: Steve's Earle's Remedy For the Bush Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
You won't hear Steve Earle's, "The Revolution Starts Now", as a soundtrack at any Republican fundraisers this fall. Republicans have staked proprietary claim to country music as one of the few aspects of working class culture that is "politically correct." It rankles the GOP that country music's resident musical genius routinely thumbs his nose at George W. Bush. You will hear a lot of whining about how Steve Earle has diminished his artistry by his left wing politics. Steve Earle stubbornly refuses accept the prevailing wisdom that political statements blemish the purity of art. The Revolution Starts Now is, despite a boycott from the GOP, one of the year's best CDs.
Steve Earle's lifestyle and musical career should be an object lesson on failure. He refused to wear a cowboy hat, he was a pain in the butt to work with and was a junkie, to boot. By the time Copperhead Road was released Earle was heavily tatooed and his band, the Dukes was a full throttled roots rock band with a menancing big boss guitar sound. Remember that Reba McEntire, Barbara Mandrell, Lee Hazelwood, the Judds, Ronnie Milsap, and Billy Ray Cyrus were the squeaky clean assmebly line country music products of choice during the Reagan/Bush years.
By the time Steve Earle got fired from MCA records and moved to South Nashville and began hanging with a crew of local losers, and listening Dr. Dre's "the Chronic", he began developing a reputation as piriah in the music industry... a case of wasted brilliance. It took six failed marriages, several car crashes, fights with the police and a term in jail for heroin possession before Earle found redemption.
Steve is still a piriah in the musically and politically conservative Nashville, but he's found a growing audience for his music among fans of neo-traditionalist country music, aging punk rockers, roots music fans and those from the Uncle Tupelo school of No Depression (or whatever you call it). It's agruable without a few key bridge musicians like Steve Earle the restoration of country music to it's outlaw roots would have never happened. Try to tell Woody Guthrie that there's no room for political statements in music.
The "Revolution Starts Now" is an excellent companion piece to Jersalem which serve as bookends to the four year Bush presidency. Earle's talk of revolution is often misuderstood as Marxist rhetoric but Earle's vision of revolution is more of a populist democracy. He was radicalized by his own father's firing as an air traffic controller during the Reagan era crackdown on PATCO the air traffic contoller's union.
The opening salvo on the album is the title song, "The Revolution Starts Now", is a statement of how the process of change comes from within and each indivdual has the power to transform the world we live in...it's a powerful cry against apathy and our learned helplessness as individuals.
"Home To Houston" takes the well worn country music truck driver theme and instead of out of a Nashville truckstop, Steve Earle's big rig driver is pulling out of Basra Iraq with a bulletproof screen on the hood of his truck. The trucker is an unemployed American semi driver on a contract job in the Iraqi war. He longs to return to his home in Houston...which is a barb directed at the Houston based Halliburton the controversial Cheney connected war contractor in Iraq.
"Rich Man's War" comments on the fact the wars are fought to promote the geopolitical interests of the wealthy by the youth from either inner city ghettos or remote pockets of rural poverty. "Condi Condi" has an infectous one drop reggae riddim in which Steve confesses with tongue firmly in cheek, his undying devotion to Condalezza Rice.
"Comin' Around" , a vocal duet with Emmylou Harris is the album's finest moment. Steve Earle introspective moments where he takes ownership of his failures like "South Nashville Blues" on 1996's "I Feel Alright" are his most powerful songs. On "Comin' Around", Earle wears his heart on his sleeve as he reflects upon his often misguided life. The closer song, "The Seeker", is just that... a song that seeks closure. Closure is not an easy thing for Steve Earle because he still is the pariah who seeks closure on a world of pain caused by sinister political forces. Earle's epistle to all who care to listen is to follow your heart and you will be delivered from Babylon.
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