In 1986, Steve Earle‘s debut LP, Guitar Town, was one of the albums that reenergized and redefined country music in the genre’s dreary post-Urban Cowboy days. The raw, twang-fueled guitars and Earle’s ...

Multi Grammy award-winning musician, actor, author, playwright and activist, Steve Earle was an ambitious Texas songwriter struggling to get his break when now legendary MCA A&R head Tony Brown signed ...

There’s a fine line between giving a song what it needs and being so on the nose that it becomes cheesy, and it was along this narrow precipice of taste that Steve Earle, Richard Bennett, and Emory ...

On this day (March 5) in 1986, Steve Earle released his debut album Guitar Town. The album featured 10 tracks written or co-written by Earle. As a result, it introduced him to the country music world ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Guitar Town was his first shot at showing a ...

Steve Earle's 1986 album Guitar Town turns 30 in 2016 (it did so on March 5, to be exact), and to celebrate the milestone, the project is being reissued in remastered form, and with bonus material. On ...