STEVE EARLE CONFIRMS SERIES OF IN-STORES SURROUNDING RELEASE OF TERRAPLANE.
LISTEN TO “BABY BABY BABY (BABY)”
Musician, actor, author and ardent lover of independent record stores, Steve Earle will perform a series of intimate acoustic in-stores around the country in support of his new album, Terraplane, on New West Records. Earle, who is currently in the midst of a sold out four-night run at City Winery in Chicago, will hit Houston’s Cactus Music February 10 followed by Austin’s Waterloo Records, Denver’s Twist & Shout, Portland’s Music Millennium and Seattle’s Silver Platters. Night of release, Earle will be the special guest at the Los Angeles Grammy Museum’s “The Drop,” where following an interview with Vice President of MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation, Scott Goldman, the hardcore troubadour will perform several new songs.
Earle, who made his first appearance on “Letterman” in 1988 in support of his now classic album, Copperhead Road, will make his final appearance February 23 when he and his band The Dukes perform the shuffling blues single “You’re The Best Lover That I Ever Had.”
Throughout his more than 30-year career, Earle has mined the rich veins of American roots music from country to rock and roll, folk and rockabilly. On his 16th studio album of his singular career, Terraplane, Earle pays tribute to the blues, influenced by the blues giants he saw growing up in Texas – Lightnin’ Hopkins, Freddy King, Johnny Winter, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Canned Heat and Billy Gibbons. Recorded in Nashville by Ray Kennedy and produced by R.S. Field, the new collection is his homage to the music that he calls “the commonest of human experience, perhaps the only thing that we all truly share” and a record he has wanted to make for a long time. Over 11 original tracks, Earle and his band The Dukes traverse various forms of the blues – from the Texas roadhouse blues of opener “Baby Baby Baby (Baby),” to the acoustic country blues of “Ain’t Nobody’s Daddy Now” and the Chicago blues of “The Usual Time” to the pre-war blues of “Baby’s Just As Mean As Me,” a duet with Eleanor Whitmore. The electrified “King of The Blues” features some scorching guitar playing from guitarist Chris Masterson and on “The Tennessee Kid” Earle sounds like a possessed street preacher as he retells the Faustian crossroads legend over a John Lee Hooker-esque boogie.
Described by Mojo as “Earle’s passion for blues in its rawest form,” Terraplane has been receiving rave reviews with Uncut choosing it as their “Americana Album of the Month” and London’s Express & Star exclaiming “It’s like Robert Johnson meets Johnny Cash – and it’s a truly stunning work.” Rolling Stone awarded it three and half stars and called it “less a soul-searcher than a sturdy vehicle, built to chug through hard times,” while Vintage Guitar remarked, “In a time when far too many modern ‘blues’ records feel antiseptic and slick, Earle and band superbly integrate new songs and old sounds.”
Earle is set to return for his second year of Camp Copperhead. The four-day-long immersion songwriting camp led by Earle, debuted last summer in upstate New York and immediately sold out. In 2015, Camp Copperhead will take place again in Big Indian, NY located in the beautiful Catskill Mountains just north of New York City July 20-24. For more information, visit camp-copperhead.com.
An actor with acclaimed roles in HBO’s The Wire and Treme, Earle is currently in the just released film, “The World Made Straight” and can be seen in the upcoming film “Dixieland” later this year. His long awaited memoir “I Can’t Remember If We Said Goodbye” will be published by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group this year. He can be seen in many episodes of the Foo Fighters HBO Original Series “Sonic Highways” and also co-wrote the title track with Marianne Faithfull for her new studio album, Give My Love To London.
Terraplane will be available as a single compact disc, deluxe CD/DVD, digitally, as well as 180g vinyl. The deluxe version of the album will include 24-bit high-res audio of the album as well as a long form interview between Earle and acclaimed journalist Mark Jacobson, three live, acoustic songs filmed on the porch of House of Blues Studio D, and a behind-the-scenes short film about the making of the album.
Pre-order Links:
Terraplane CD: http://smarturl.it/terraplane-cd
Terraplane CD/DVD Deluxe: http://smarturl.it/terraplane-deluxe
Terraplane Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/terraplane-vinyl
Terraplane iTunes: http://smarturl.it/terraplane-itunes
Steve Earle & The Dukes – “You’re The Best Lover That I Ever Had” (Porch Recording)
STEVE EARLE ON TOUR
March 6 – Nashville, TN @ City Winery
March 7 – Nashville, TN @ City Winery
April 24 – Indio, CA @ Stagecoach Festival
