Steve Earle - The Complete Warner Years (2023)

One of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of his generation, Steve Earle first won an audience as a country artist, though it didn't take long for him to demonstrate that designation was too narrow for him. Earle's music runs the gamut from country (1986's Guitar Town), bluegrass (1999's The Mountain), and rock (1988's Copperhead Road) to folk (2007's Washington Square Serenade, and blues (2015's Terraplane). His populist lyrical stance, literate yet down to earth, finds room for the personal and the political, writing about the stuff of everyday lives as well as the forces that shape and define their existence. Earle's naturally rebellious nature had an impact on his personal and professional lives; his most popular and celebrated work has a strong outlaw streak, and his unwillingness to play nice with record companies (as well as his struggles with addiction and his history of stormy marriages) attracted a certain breed of fans while alienating others. However, his versatility, the strength of his work, and consistent critical acclaim helped him attract a loyal following happy to follow his stylistic evolution. He staked his claim to country stardom with 1986's Guitar Town, and displayed a harder rock sound on 1988's commercial breakthrough Copperhead Road. Toward the early '90s, his career was thrown off track by personal problems and substance abuse, but he re-emerged stronger and healthier with two of his most critically acclaimed albums, 1995's Train A Comin' and 1996's I Feel Alright. Earle celebrated his love for bluegrass on 1999's The Mountain, while his progressive political views dominated his work from the 2000s. He returned to personal themes on 2011's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, and made a full-bodied return to country sounds with 2017's So You Wannabe an Outlaw and 2020's Ghosts of West Virginia, the latter of which chronicled the 2010 mining explosion that killed 29 workers. Earle has also recorded a handful of albums paying homage to songwriters who influenced him including Townes Van Zandt (2009's Townes), Guy Clark (2019's Guy), and Jerry Jeff Walker (2022's Jerry Jeff).

Track List:
01. Mystery Train Pt. 2
02. Hometown Blues
03. Sometimes She Forgets
04. Mercenary Song
05. Goodbye
06. Tom Ames' Prayer
07. Nothin' Without You
08. Angel Is the Devil
09. I'm Looking Through You
10. Nothern Winds
11. Bem McCulloch
12. Rivers of Babylon
13. Tecumseh Valley
14. Feel Alright
15. Hard-Core Troubadour
16. More Than I Can Do
17. Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You
18. Now She's Gone
19. Poor Boy
20. Valentine's Day
21. The Unrepentant
22. CCKMP
23. Billy and Bonnie
24. South Nashville Blues
25. You're Still Standin' There
26. Christmas In Washington
27. Taneytown
28. If You Fall
29. I Still Carry You Around
30. Telephone Road (feat. The Fairfield Four)
31. Somewhere out There
32. You Know the Rest
33. N.Y.C. (feat. The Supersuckers)
34. Poison Lovers
35. The Other Side of Town
36. Here I Am
37. Ft. Worth Blues
38. Texas Eagle
39. Yours Forever Blue
40. Carrie Brown
41. I’m Still in Love with You
42. The Graveyard Shift
43. Harlan Man
44. The Mountain
45. Outlaw's Honeymoon
46. Connemara Breakdown
47. Leroy's Dustbowl Blues
48. Dixieland
49. Paddy on the Beat
50. Long, Lonesome Highway Blues
51. Pilgrim
52. Transcendental Blues
53. Everyone's in Love with You
54. Another Town
55. I Can't Wait
56. The Boy Who Never Cried
57. Steve's Last Ramble
58. The Galway Girl
59. Lonelier Than This
60. Wherever I Go
61. When I Fall
62. I Don't Want to Lose You Yet
63. Halo 'Round the Moon
64. Until the Day I Die
65. All of My Life
66. Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
67. Some Dreams
68. Open Your Window
69. Me and the Eagle
70. Johnny Too Bad
71. Dominick St.
72. Breed
73. Time Has Come Today
74. Ellis Unit One
75. Creepy Jackalope Eye
76. Willin'
77. Sara's Angel
78. My Uncle
79. My Back Pages
80. Ashes to Ashes
81. Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)
82. Conspiracy Theory
83. John Walker's Blues
84. The Kind
85. What's a Simple Man to Do?
86. The Truth
87. Go Amanda
88. I Remember You
89. Shadowland
90. Jerusalem
91. Audience Intro (Live)
92. Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)[Live]
93. Ashes to Ashes (Live)
94. Paranoia (Monologue)[Live]
95. Conspiracy Theory (Live)
96. I Remember You (Live)
97. Schertz, Texas (Monologue)[Live]
98. Hometown Blues (Live)
99. The Mountain (Live)
100. Pennsylvania Miners (Monologue)[Live]
101. Harlan Man (Live)
102. Copperhead Road (Live)
103. Guitar Town (Live)
104. I Oppose the Death Penalty (Monologue)[Live]
105. Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)[Live]
106. Billy Austin (Live)
107. Audience Intro #2 (Live)
108. South Nashville Blues (Live)
109. Rex's Blues / Ft. Worth Blues (Live)
110. John Walker's Blues (Live)
111. Jerusalem (Live)
112. The Unrepentant (Live)
113. Christmas in Washington (Live)
114. Democracy (Monologue)[Live]
115. What's So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding (Live)
116. Time You Waste (Live)
117. The Revolution Starts…
118. Home to Houston
119. Rich Man's War
120. Warrior
121. The Gringo's Tale
122. Condi, Condi
123. F the CC
124. Comin' Around
125. I Thought You Should Know
126. The Seeker
127. The Revolution Starts Now