Name: Guy
Brand: Steve Earle

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NW6455CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Digipack with Booklet.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-03-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

607396645527

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Steve Earle

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

New West Records

New West Records is a rock-oriented independent label that was founded in 1997. With a focus on alternative, indie, country, and folk music, this US-based label has established itself as a powerhouse in the industry. Headquartered in Los Angeles and Austin TX, New West Records also exclusively represents the renowned PBS Television program Austin City Limits. Known for their commitment to showcasing both archival and current performances, this label releases an impressive range of music on DVD and CD formats.

Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter born on January 17, 1955, in Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. With a career spanning decades, he has established himself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Steve was married to Allison Moorer from 2005 to 2014 and is the older brother of Stacey Earle and Patrick Earle.
As a father, Steve has two sons named [a1728404] (1982–2020) and John Henry Earle (2010-). His unique style and heartfelt lyrics have earned him a dedicated fan base. Drawing inspiration from various genres such as country, folk, and rock, his music resonates with listeners around the world.
Steve Earle's musical talent can be compared to artists like Hayes Carll, Todd Snider, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, James McMurtry,and many others. With his rich discography and captivating live performances, Steve continues to leave an indelible mark on the music scene.

Steve Earle was nineteen and had just hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. Back then if you wanted to be where the years later, Steve would be playing bass guitar in Guy’s band and flying high on what would become an indelible friendship of like-minded musicians who bonded in a kinship of stories told through song. Flash forward more than forty years to May 2016. Guy Clark had just succumbed to cancer after a long battle with Lymphoma. Guy had lived with his disease and had continued to write songs until the day he died. He also painted, built instruments and owned a guitar shop in the Bay Area. According to Earle, “You hung around with him [Guy] and knew why they call what artists do disciplines. Because he was disciplined.” The same can be said of Earle. In the fall of 2018, Steve and The Dukes went into House Of Blues studio in Nashville and recorded Guy in six days. “I wanted it to sound live...When you’ve got a catalog like Guy’s and you’re only doing sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.” Earle and his current, perhaps best-ever Dukes lineup, take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. The tunes are all over the place and so is the band, offering max energy on such disparate entries as the bluegrass rave-up Sis Draper and the talking blues memoir of Texas 1947. Earle’s raw vocal on the sweet, sad That Old Time Feeling is heartbreaking, sounding close enough to the grave as to be doing a duet with his late friend and mentor. You can hear little hints of where Earle came from. The stark Randall Knife has the line “a better blade that was ever made was probably forged in Hell,” which wouldn’t be out of place in a Steve Earle original. Also hard to beat is The Last Gunfighter, a sardonic western saga to which Earle offers a bravura reading of the chorus: “the smell of the black powder smoke and the stand in the street at the turn of joke.” But in the end Guy leads the listener back to its beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good “tribute” should do. Guy is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures. We are lucky that Earle remembers and honours these things, because like old friends, Guy is a diamond.

2LP - Double 150 Gram Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

2LP+ - Limited Double 150 Gram Blue Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

Music GB