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Thread #23473   Message #260937
Posted By: Willie-O
19-Jul-00 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: Is Steve Earl folk
Subject: RE: Is Steve Earl folk
"El Corazon" is the album I have listened to the most. A review made an interesting point about it--he plays in some quite different styles, and you pretty much pick the ones you like on that basis. Some of it is hard-core country--"The Other Side of Town", some roots-rock like "Telegraph Road", "Christmas Time In Washington" depressed leftist sentimentality, and my fave "Taneytown" sounds like Lynyrd-Skynyrd-with-a-brain. (Much like Copperhead Road)

He can't be all those styles for real can he? Guess I don't really care. I think he's someone who understands how to produce good, sometimes great work within his technical limitations.

Willie-O