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Steve Earle Shares Thoughts on Aging, Israel & Songs That Shaped His Career

Steve Earle talks about his Fifty Years of Songs and Stories Tour.

The song publishing company Sunbury-Dunbar made him a staff writer, though Earle would subsequently head back to Texas and then return to Nashville, where he became an artist in his own right with the 1982 EP Pink & Black; his career really took off with 1986’s Guitar Town, which hit No. I’m just trying to live long enough to get the f–kin’ thing up.” He also appears on Willie Nile’s upcoming new album The Great Yellow Light and has recorded a “cosmic country” song, “Dead or Gone to Dallas,” for a split single he’s doing with Reckless Kelly. I wrote ‘Down the Road’ second on the trip that me and Jimbeau Hinson and Tony [Brown] had taken down to Bill Golden’s beach house; he supposedly wasn’t gonna be there but he showed up with a bunch of yahoos after we’d been there a couple days but we got a few songs.

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