{"id":38273,"date":"2024-08-14T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=38273"},"modified":"2024-08-14T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:40:39","slug":"steve-earle-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2024\/08\/steve-earle-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Earle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38274\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/904960.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/904960.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/904960.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/904960.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>In het najaar van 2022 zat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveearle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Earle<\/a> opeens zonder band. \u201cI had toured with one version of the Dukes or another since 1982, but the real continuous bloodline of the outfit died with my long-time bass player, Kelly Looney, in 2019. So, it seemed I\u2019d come to a crossroads. Left? Right? I chose BACK. Back to performing solo like I did in coffeehouses when I first started.\u201d Indrukwekkende weerslag daarvan is <strong>Alone Again (Live)<\/strong> (Howe Sound): een uur lang, vijftien nummers Steve Earle in z\u2019n eentje, opgenomen in 2023 tijdens zijn tour door Groot-Brittanni\u00eb. Vanzelfsprekend komen zijn grote hits voorbij, zoals <em>Guitar Town<\/em>, <!--more--><em>Galway Girl<\/em> en <em>Copperhead Road<\/em>, vorig jaar uitgeroepen tot officieel volkslied van de staat Tennessee. Verder nog veel meer hoogtepunten uit Earle\u2019s lange loopbaan, zoals <em>The Devil\u2019s Right Hand, My Old Friend The Blues<\/em> en <em>I Ain\u2019t Never Satisfied<\/em>. Wat live-albums soms minder verteerbaar maakt, zijn de praatjes tussendoor. Een keer leuk om te horen, maar daarna weet je het wel. Dat geldt hier ook enigszins, al moet meteen gezegd worden dat Steve Earle wel degelijk iets te melden heeft. Zo legt hij in de uitgebreide inleiding op <em>It\u2019s About Blood<\/em> (van zijn slechtverkochte conceptalbum <em>Ghosts Of West Virginia<\/em>, over een grote mijnramp in West-Virginia in 2010) uit dat als hij \u2018radical motherfucker\u2019 uiteraard fanatiek tegen steenkool is, maar als je het dan toch per se wilt opgraven, zorg dan verdorie wel dat de mijnwerkers veilig hun werk kunnen doen. In het liedje noemt Earle de namen van alle 25 dodelijke slachtoffers. Een mooi moment in de intro op <em>Sparkle And Shine<\/em>: Earle vertelt dat hij opgegroeid is in Texas, en meteen klinkt uit de zaal weer zo\u2019n obligate hysterische holler. Even is het stil, waarna Earle besluit dit eerbetoon aan de staat met de meeste vuurwapens en de meeste doodstraffen maar gewoon te negeren. <em>Alone Again (Live)<\/em> is meer dan een \u2018best of Steve Earle\u2019; het is, zonder zijn traditionele \u2018outfit\u2019, een heel nieuw album <em>an sich<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Copperhead Road (Acoustic) [Live]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnJgGPSjk78\" width=\"440\" height=\"247\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In het najaar van 2022 zat Steve Earle opeens zonder band. \u201cI had toured with one version of the Dukes or another since 1982, but the real continuous bloodline of the outfit died with my long-time bass player, Kelly Looney, in 2019. So, it seemed I\u2019d come to a crossroads. Left? Right? I chose BACK. 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