Justin Townes Earle won the Song of the Year prize at the 2011 Americana Music Awards for "Harlem River Blues," the title track of his excellent third full-length album and the most upbeat song about ...

Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own ...

Steve Earle opened his show at a sold-out Birchmere on Tuesday night with “Tom Ames’ Prayer,” a song about a young bank robber who has a complex relationship with the Lord. “I wrote that song fifty ...

Steve Earle has a number of events he can point to in his life to mark 50th anniversaries, but he's clear about what's sending him on his Fifty Years of Songs and Stories tour that kicks off May 25 in ...

Because country rocker Steve Earle is a Texas contemporary of artists like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, he's also the type of storyteller able to set an entire mood with the inflection of his voice ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Earle about his new album Ghosts of West Virginia. Much of the music was written for a play about a 2010 mine... West Virginia Mining Disaster Told Through Steve ...

A few months ago, Steve Earle stopped by Cactus Music for a special in-store performance to promote his latest album, Terraplane. A line stretched around the building, and not everyone around me ...

Singer-songwriter Steve Earle has said that he and touring and recording partner Shawn Colvin don’t plan who’ll sing which line of a song they sing together or which lines they’ll sing in unison. For ...

“I’m trying to get songs on country radio,” says Steve Earle. It’s not what anyone would expect to hear from Earle these days, especially when we’re supposed to be discussing Jerry Jeff, his new ...