What are your Favorite Steve Earle songs plus BQ?

Drugs, divorce, jail, Steve Earle's motto seems to be that you can't sing about it if you haven't lived it. Here are a few of his most uncompromising statements.

Guitar Town: not so much an anthem as a manifesto "Gotta keep rockin" while I still can / gotta two - pack habit and a motel tan / but when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man / with my back in the riser, I make my stand." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otTW0JczoGQ

Copperhead Road: magnificent twang-infested hard-rock on a knock'em dead tale of hillbilly bootleggers turned 'Nam vet drug-runners. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVmU_Ql8uI0

The Devil's Right Hand: te original country outlaw Waylon Jennings covered it - but this s still the definitive renegade version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5E8noEbn4

Johnny Come Lately: Backed by The Pogues with predictably rowdy ad rousing results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaPwdgezWI

Goodbye: one of Earl's tenderest lost-love songs, written for his first album after his release from jail [ and then brilliantly covered by Emmylou Harris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cNiEplXuM

Christmas In Washington: "Come back Woody Guthrie come back to us now "If he did, he'd probably be Steve Earle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NASicF9yTI

Ellis Unit One: written for Tim Robbin's death -row movie, "even Jesus couldn't save me, though I know he did his best." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXhGmty2N74

The Mountain: the best track from an album recorded with the Del McCourty Band. Bluegrass hadn't sounded this edgy in decades. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBuMFDHkrH8

Over Yonder [Jonathan's Song]: an even more unflinching treatment of the same subject as Ellis Unit One, made more personal by being about Jonathan WayneNobles, whom Earle befriended and then watched die in the electric chair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14YWa_0oo3I

John Walker's Blues: who else would or could write a song from the point of the view of an incarcreated American Taliban fighter, other than the Woody Guthrie of his times? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFNTRaXRiI

My favorite at the time is Side Tracks album that is.

take care

dave

Favourite album is "Train a comin'" with "The Hard Way" a close second

Favourite songs:

The Other Kind (my fav song + )

Justice In Ontario

The rain came down

I Ain't Ever Satisfied

Guitar Town

someday

Ben McCulloch

Dixieland

The Mountain

Once You Love

Nothing but a child

Goodbye

Mercenary Song

Tom Ames' Prayer

Hard-Core Troubadour

N.Y.C.

Telephone Road

Transcendental Blues

or any of Steve's song with "Hup" in it :-)

Favorite album is Townes where he covers Townes Van Zandt

Copperhead Road

Way down in the hole - written by Tom Waits (theme of The Wire HBO original series Steve makes appearances in the 2nd & 5th seasons

Continental Trailway Blues

I feel alright

This land is your land

-I got a lot more of his music to listen to I hope to see him in concert in the near future

The Mountain

Guitar Town

BQ - The Mountain

Copperhead Road.