Artist: Steve Earle
Album: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Label: New West
Release Date: 16th April 2011
Rating 4.5 / 5
I was excited to finally pick up the new T-Bone Burnett-produced Steve Earle record, as I hadn't heard from him for quite some time. I am glad that it had been awhile- Steve pulled out some tricks, trust me, this one was well worth the wait. Some say that T-Bone Burnett has a "heavy hand" in his production services, (can you count how many GRAMMYS(tm) that he's won?), but I have to humbly disagree- the man is a production genius. That being said, this album grabbed me immediately from the first track, "Waitin' on the Sky" is catchy country-rock steeped in the voice we know and love. Singing with his lovely wife, Allison Moorer on the track "Heaven or Hell" gives you the idea that they are very serious in their marital martial arts. This album brings you all over the place too, some hillbilly blues-harp envelopes the soul on the "Meet Me in the Alleyway" track, invoking Tom Waits and maybe somewhere in there I hear a bit of Muddy Waters even. Ha! A great album through and through. As always, Steve Earle delivers with a melancholy sarcasm that makes one kinda' wanna' get up and dance while also checking to see if the beer glass is still full enough. Ya' dig? Steve surely does.
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