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drjones

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"wait you mean bubbles NA sponsor from the wire is also a musician?"

*facepalm*

Steve Earle: 'My wife left me for a younger, skinnier, less talented singer'

Steve Earle has never been so busy. The 62-year-old is a singer-songwriter, actor, playwright, novelist, memoirist, political activist – and we’ve not even got to the heart of the matter yet. “Autism is the centre of my life, apart from recovery. They are the two things that control my life.”

Earle has never been one for beating around the bush. Seven years ago, his then wife, the country star Allison Moorer, gave birth to their son. John Henry is autistic and largely non-verbal. He loves playing the drums, has a passion for water, and is not easily controllable. Earle and Moorer split up five years ago. She was wife number six (he has been married seven times, as he married Lou-Anne Gill, with whom he had the second of his three sons, twice), and probably the love of his life. As for the recovery, there doesn’t appear to be a drug that Earle has not had a problem with – heroin, cocaine, LSD, you name it. He has been clean for 22 years but, as he says, he has to work hard at it.

Earle is one of the great singer-songwriters of the past four decades. He is a master of country, rock and country-rock. His voice is both gruff and tender (Tom Waits meets Hank Williams), his tunes gorgeous (impossible to know where to start, but My Old Friend the Blues is as good a place as any) and his lyrics novelistic.

the wire season 2 end montage;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SO40ansNU8


and they used a song of his in "show me a hero" too;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr_CtFL6fq8


and of course;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
 

Filthy

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"Train A'Comin" is one of the most under-appreciated country albums in history, but I haven't listened to much since "Transcendental Blues" - he and his music got real preachy real quick, starting with "Jerusalem".