TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Steve Earle
Steve Earle
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9118
Steve Earle Album Rankings
1
WHEN STEVE Earle dropped Guitar Town, his sampler of fringe characters, beautiful losers, and shattered dreams, into mainstream country in 1986, everybody agreed on one thing -- the son of a gun could
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2
Steve Earle is an outlaw. He has locked horns with just about everyone in the Nashville music making machine.
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3
Released in 1995,Train a Comin'signaled Steve Earle's final declaration of independence from the Nashville assembly line.
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4
Steve Earle has never been shy about stirring up trouble. His latest record Jerusalem, offers upin no uncertain termsa (well-intentioned) kick in the ass to the American status quo.
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5
Although his personal life was plagued with troubles during the late '80s, Steve Earle wrote a wealth of first-rate songs during that time and the majority of those tunes are collected on the double-d
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6
In 1986 and 1987, Steve Earle made two great records –Guitar TownandExit 0– on which he established a vivid Southern-working-class identity and melded aspects of country, folk and rock.
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On Steve Earle's first major American tour following the release of his debut album,Guitar Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill withDwight Yoakamone night andthe Replacementsanother, and one liste
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8
Over 20 years ago, Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban, fired up by post-punk and Studio 54, saw no reason why the two couldn't coexist.
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9
New York City has long been more than America's biggest and most fabled city -- it's a place that symbolizes fresh starts and new opportunities, and there are scores of songs and stories about folks p
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10
The cliche is that rockers don't make protest music like they used to. Maybe that's because they turn it out too slowly. Steve Earle's roilingThe Revolution Starts . . .
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11
When Bill Monroe dropped his guitar for the mandolin over sixty years ago, he accomplished something no other American musician can claim-- he single-handedly created a genre.
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12
"No matter what anybody tells you, it is never ever unpatriotic or un-American to question any-fucking-thing in a democracy," seethes Earle before charging into "(What's So Funny About)
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14
A self-described collection of "unreleased or underexposed" songs,Sidetracksillustrates the many sides of Steve Earle.
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15
Released on MCA in 1991, Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator was recorded live in Ontario, Canada, in October of 1990.
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16
Steve Earle lives up to the title billing here.
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17
MCA Special Products' Fearless Heart may just be a budget-price compilation, but according to those standards, it's an excellent one.
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21
Hard-Core Troubadour Steve Earle used to be a decent songwriter. He used to be a Nashville craftsman with a populist bent, a country singer whose songs were at once universal and faceless.
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