Steve Earle Cover Town, Vol. 4

 

STEVE EARLE
Cover Town, Vol. 4

Years ago I made 3 compilations of live songs written by other artists, performed by Steve Earle. Finally I have enough material for a 4th compilation.

From the original text that came with volume 1:

" While Steve Earle is known primarily as one of the great singer/songwriters of his (or any) era, fans who've seen or heard his live shows know that he is also a brilliant interpreter of other artists' work.
With this in mind, I have gone through my collection of Steve's shows and extracted the best versions of his covers and put together this collection, which will be followed by at least two more volumes.

For the purposes of this collection, I have only used songs from Steve's own shows. He's done many guest appearances at other artists' concerts, doing duets, but I'll leave those. Of course there is the occasional
duet here from his shows. Also, I didn't use his  first known recorded live show (Hickory 1982), since that consists almost entirely of covers and people might as well get it in its entirety (it has been shared previously on Dime).

With so many sources, I have left out the lineages, but want to thank the tapers, the people I've traded with, and the people who've uploaded Steve's shows online."

Some tracks were extracted from CD, the newer ones came directly from flac as uploaded on sites like Dime. I adjusted and balanced volume and applied fade in/out.

Note on choice: many songs of the compilation come from the period when Steve's Townes Van Zandt tribute album was released. Consequently live shows from this period had many Townes songs. Including those
songs would not have given much variation, so I left them out, except for one song which was performed before the album came out.

None of these tracks has been commercially released.
Enjoy!
Sylvia

01. Summer Wages( Tyson)                   - The Diamond Club, Toronto- 1987-07-27
02. Brown And Root(Crowell)            - The Diamond Club, Toronto- 1987-07-27                       
03. Sundown (Lightfood)             - The Concert Hall, Toronto- 1989-02-18
04. Ohio (Young)                - Theater Of The Living Arts, Philadelphia- 1999-10-16
05. No Reply (Lennon/McCartney)            - La Zona Rosa, Austin- 2000-11-10
06. Folsom Prison Blues(Cash)             - The Ryman, Nashville- 2003-11-10
07. Luxury Liner (Parsons)             - Universal Amphitheater, LA- 2004-07-10
08. Pancho And Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)        - Bruce Mason Centre- Auckland, NZ- 2008-11-13
09. Deportee (Woody Guthrie)            - Clearwater Festival- Croton-on-Hudson, NY- 2010-06-19
10. John Henry (Roger MCGuinn)            - Clearwater Festival- Croton-on-Hudson, NY- 2010-06-19
11. T'aint Nobody's Business (Frank Stokes)    - Preservation Hall- New Orleans,LA- 2012-05-06
12. Blue Railroad Train (Doc Watson)        - HSB2012- San Francisco, CA- 2012-10-06
13. San Francisco Nights (Eric Burdon)        - HSB2012- San Francisco, CA- 2012-10-06
14. Wild Thing (Chip Taylor            - Vicar Street- Dublin- 2013-06-01
15. Rag Mama Rag (Levon Helm)            - Rhythm & Roots Festival- Charlestown,RI- 2013-08-31
16. Crazy Mama (JJ Cale)             - Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ- Columbia, CO- 2013-09-20
17. Hey Joe (Jimmy Hendrix version)         - Gruene Hall- New Braunfels, TX 2015-04-17
18. Forty-Four (Howling Wolf)            - Gruene Hall- New Braunfels, TX- 2015-04-17
19. There Is A Mountain (Donovan)        - The Canyon Club- Agoura Hills, CA- 2015-06-17


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