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Transcendental Blues

by Steve Earle

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2000

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Overall Rating: 3.2655 Transcendental Blues is ranked overall as 3.2655 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3244 Transcendental Blues has an avg. critic score of 3.3244 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

Winding through the psychedelic title track, the ''Rubber Soul''-ish pop, the garage rock, and the lovely ''Eire meets Tennessee'' ''The Galway Girl,'' ''Blues'' is his musical road map. ...more

All Music Guide

Steve Earle proves again and again that he is the original alternative to the glossy side of Nashville. ...more

Rolling Stone

Transcendental Blues is an intermittently twangy, often trippy and, yes, generally transcendent outing. ...more

Rolling Stone

Steve Earle is all over the map on his new album, and not just Tennessee or even the South.Transcendental Bluesis an intermittently twangy, often trippy and, yes, generally transcendent outing. ...more

PopMatters

Steve Earle, once all but given up for dead, metaphorically if not literally, has been riding a white hot hand since returning from the long dark night of drug addiction and musical oblivion. ...more

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Steve Earle is an outlaw. He has locked horns with just about everyone in the Nashville music making machine. In and out of prison with an addiction to cocaine, there was a point a few years back when only a few people were even willing to be called...read the complete review at The Phantom Tollbooth

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Wall of Sound

It's not precisely rock and roll, more a summary of the stylistic fusion that has evolved over his last five albums: unequal parts rock, bluegrass, folk, Irish, and punk....read the complete review at Wall of Sound

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The A.V. Club

For some artists, epiphanies arrive in the middle of the night with no warning. Steve Earle's came while he was serving time. Though he had been responsible for a string of acclaimed albums before his incarceration, his stint in prison on drug charges...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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