Train A Comin - Steve Earle Reviews

Steve Earle's first post-heroin record, Train A-Coming is a revelation, particularly given the raging, distorted squall of much of the preceding album, the fairly grim (in tone, not in quality) The Hard Way. Where that album piled feeding-back, echo-soused distorted guitars one atop the other from floor tiles to ceiling, sounding even more of a ...  Read the complete review

This time last year, I reviewed the London gig, “Concert for a Landmine Free World,” and doffed my hat to the magnificent Steve Earle… To quote what I said then: “Having served time in prison for drug offences, Earle was released in 1994 and has since been living clean and sober, rebuilding his own ...  Read the complete review