Earle looks at "Times Like These"
The song was recorded late last week.
Earle said to Spin magazine, "This is a song I wrote for a moment at the beginning of the Trumpian nightmare that I planned on releasing closer to the election, but I reckon its time has come today."
"Times Like These" was originally intended for Earle's next studio album. He was then approached by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, a playwright team who would create "Coal Country," a play with music written and performed by Earle based on the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion that killed 29 men in West Virginia in 2010. The seven songs he wrote and performed in the play lead his new album "Ghosts of West Virginia."
While recording "Ghosts of West Virginia" at New York City's Electric Lady Studios, Earle and his band The Dukes recorded a version of "Times Like These." The full band version of the song will be released as a limited edition 7-inch single on Record Store Day's special "RSD Drop" on Saturday, Aug. 29. Its cover art was painted by Steve Earle and can be seen above.
More news for Steve Earle
- 02/27/25: Irving teams with Earle for new single
- 06/28/24: Earle release "Copperhead Road" in advance of live disc
- 05/27/22: Earle pays tribute to "Jerry Jeff"
- 11/02/20: Nashville Songwriters Hall names new members
- 04/22/20: Earle receives theatre award nomination
- 04/03/20: Earle commemorates Upper Big Branch mine disaster Sunday
- 02/27/20: Earle & Dukes set "Ghosts of West Virginia" for release
- 02/26/19: Earle launches record tour
CD reviews for Steve Earle
A decade after recording his tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle has released an album of Guy Clark covers. It includes, perhaps, Clark's best-known songs, "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting For A Train," as well as a slew of songs not known quite so well. Most significantly, it's an album that showcases the breadth of Clark's work. Clark was a songwriter's songwriter, something many of the best Americana songwriters - including Earle - know well. ...
If Steve Earle had never done another album after "Guitar Town" and "Copperhead Road," he'd still have cemented his place in the musical firmament for skillfully creating a ragged and beautiful tapestry from the stray threads of rootsy rock and authentic country. And that may well be why his catalog over the past three decades has been so compelling and satisfying; he has consistently proven that he has nothing to prove.
"So You Wannabe an Outlaw" is the latest ...
In the Instagram era where people use apps to turn digital snapshots into sepia-toned portraits, Steve Earle's 16th studio release finds its place with an old-school sound. It's a Polaroid of rural country, blues and bluegrass frozen in time. But instead of outdated, it plays on the nostalgia of its modern audience.
Named for the 1930s Hudson muscle car model, "Terraplane," the cover is a cacophony of vintage graphics hinting to the fun times that lie beneath. ...
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