Steve Earle - Train a Comin'
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Artist: Steve EarleEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-01-28
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Mystery Train Part II
- Hometown Blues
- Sometimes She Forgets
- Mercenary Song
- Goodbye
- Tom Ames' Prayer
- Nothin' Without You
- Angel Is The Devil
- I'm Looking Through You
- Northern Winds
- Ben McCulloch
- Rivers Of Babylon
- Tecumseh Valley
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Hit: 5 Stars
"Train a' Comin'" is the type of album that, after you listen to it, you're just left going, "Wow!" and although there are some super-catchy songs (most notably "Sometimes She Forgets,") it really takes a few listens to really completely love this record, or to at least fully appreciate it.
Pretty much everyone I've played this for has the same reaction--it changed them. I've learned more about songwriting from listening to this album than from any other record in my collection, save for my Townes Van Zandt and Hank Williams albums. Speaking of Townes, I often wonder what he thought of Steve's efforts, particularly this record. For those who don't know, Steve was Townes' protege back in the '70s when Mr. Earle was just a skinny kid bumming around Austin and later Nashville, tugging at the coattails of the likes of Townes, Jerry Jeff and Guy Clark. Of course, since Steve learned songwriting at the foot of the greatest songwriter who ever lived, it's easy to see why he became such a fantastic and important songwriter. Steve covers Townes' masterful "Tecumseh Valley" in such a heartfelt way that it comes close to making me favor it over the version on Townes' "Our Mother the Mountain," but I did write "almost."
If you have the properly sequenced version of this album (the one that begins with "Mystery Train No. II,") then you are in for a heck of a ride that does not stop in its amazing quality. Many of these songs, like "Mercernary Song" and "Tom Ames' Prayer" date back to Steve's early days of songwriting, and it is astonishing to me how he wrote such lyrics at such a young age, but then again, he was hanging out with Townes, so I guess that explains it.
Truly one of the most touching recordings you'll ever hear. Take my word for it.
From one Texas songwriter to another: Steve Earle, my friend, your work never ceases to amaze or inspire me.
-chris edwards
Train a Comin' Poster
Steve Earle's first record after emerging from artistic struggles, prison, and addiction, 1995's Train A-Comin' finds an artist starting from scratch and returning to the very basics of his musical vision. The low-key, charming, all-acoustic support comes from veterans Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, and Roy Huskey, while Earle's original material dates as far back as 1974--he wrote "Mercenary Song," he notes, while still working at Ciraco's Pizza. The mix of covers--Beatles, Townes Van Zandt, and the "Jamaican hillbilly" of "Rivers of Babylon" (with Emmylou Harris chiming in)--proves he had one primary listener in mind: himself. With no expectations thrust upon him, no labels involved, and very few at the time bothering to listen, Earle mined a raw gem. --Marc GreilsamerCountry Music CDs
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