Hi! I wanted to share this wonderful interview with Steve Earle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-earles-fearless-heart/id1510623480?i=1000775763297

I hope you enjoy. He's a legend!

Saw Steve for the third time. Seemed appropriate to see the 51 tour a couple days before my 51st Birthday.

Laura Cantrell opened. I wasn’t familiar with her. When she began with a straight ahead rendition of Poor Ellen Smith I knew it was going to be a great set. Was not disappointed and she has a new fan in me.

I think Steve was in pretty fine form. He liked the audience a lot more than the last time he was in Halifax when there was a couple drunk hecklers and request-shouters. I don’t like it when audiences sing along, but Steve sure does so it was ok by me.

The set started out chronologically, and he played Copperhead Road as the 4th song. I think this is a pretty good strategy for a guy in his situation - get the hit out of the way so the drunks aren’t yelling for it all night.

I brought a friend who’s seen Steve almost every time he’s been to Halifax and then some. He also thought it was a great show overall.

I am not a fantastic photographer and I prefer to just enjoy the show - but I did snap this pic during the curtain call and figured I’d share.

Welp, I'm going to Dublin in September to see Steve play the Fisherman's Blues album with The Waterboys. When I told my wife The Waterboys were touring Europe as an anniversary tour for Fisherman's Blues and Steve was the newest Waterboy she said you have to go. She's a keeper. I'm just saying now it's gonna make me cry.

He sounds better and looks better than he did in Macon in 2017.

Firstly, wow, what a damn song. It's a bit of guitar magic. Could listen to it
days on end.

Secondly, has anyone figured this out on guitar? I remember seeing a tab many years
ago that said it was an alternate tuning, but It's gone and I can't for the life of me
figure it out. And all I can find only is some very basic 'these are the chords' kind of
tabs.

It's truly Steve's acoustic blues masterpiece.

Not my video, but a nice full concert video.

Has HSB released any details re: this beyond it will happen at some point and tix go on sale soon? I'm wondering if it will be the night before like the Emmylou show last year, or just sometime this summer.

Great show in Tallahassee! Steve crushed it, loved all the tunes and stories.

see r/justintownesearle for his interview

hope the photos are large enough to read

He's doing a show not too far from me and I would love to see him. But I'd say I'm more a fan of his sadder acoustic stuff than anything (Goodbye, Lonelier Than This, Lonely Are The Free, Elijahs Church, etc). Obviously some of his faster stuff is great, but I've always been drawn to his more acoustic stuff. What does he usually play these days?

I'm looking for a copy of this "Don't Think Twice..." cover

https://www.guitars101.com/threads/nobody-sings-dylan-like-dylan-the-dylan-covers-volumes-1-40-various-artists.791252/page-2?post_id=4088811#post-4088811

And saw this post over at r/bobdylan:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bobdylan/comments/1pvzj38/steve_earles_dont_think_twice_its_all_right_cover/

Steve Earle performed a cover of Don't Think Twice, It's All Right shortly after Suze Rotolo's passing in 2011. A website had a video recording of it that seems to have been scrubbed from the internets. It was a beautiful rendition that only Steve Earle could do - I can still remember it this day. Does anyone have a copy of it?

I don't know where else to ask this, so I'll hop in here - is it normal for Steve Earle not to play any California shows?