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Guitar Town

by Steve Earle

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8,067
2000's

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973
2002

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116

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Overall Rating: 2.7998 Guitar Town is ranked overall as 2.7998 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.6800 Guitar Town has an avg. critic score of 3.6800 out of 4 stars

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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 listen to the album explains why -- while the music was ...more

Yahoo! Music

Fellow "New Traditionalists" Dwight Yoakam and Randy Travis were drawing on Bakersfield and George Jones , respectively. But on Guitar Town , Earle sounded more like Springsteen gone hillbilly than any country legend. Passionate, tender and spirited, Guitar Town is a celebration of country music and its deep-rooted sentiments. ...more

Yahoo! Music

On Steve Earle's first major American tour following the release of his debut album, Guitar Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill with Dwight Yoakam one night and the Replacements another, and one listen to the album explains why -- while the music was country through and through, Earle showed off enough swagger and attitude to intimidate anyon ...more

Yahoo! Music

Despite being a debut album, Guitar Town, by journeyman Steve Earle, who was already 31 when it was released, sounded like the culmination of a veteran artist's career rather than a beginning. "Hey, pretty baby, are you ready for me?" Earle asked at the outset in the album's title song, and it was a fair question. ...more

PopMatters

In 1986, three new "country" artists shook the foundations of Nashville and took it by storm. Randy Travis made a name for himself with a style similar to the great genre forefathers while Dwight Yoakam went for a California hillbilly style with just as much success. ...more

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In the mid 1990s, when Steve Earle staged a comeback from the spiraling depths of drug abuse and recklessness that had eventually landed him in prison, he began producing a body of work whose maturity and impact were a giant leap forward from...read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net

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