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Steve Earle Album: “Guitar Town [Remaster]”
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Steve Earle & The Dukes include: Steve Earle (vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, bass); Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar); Emory Gordy, Jr. (mandolin, bass); Ken Moore (organ, synthesizer); Harry Stinson (drums, background vocals).
<p>Additional personnel includes: Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar); John Jarvis (piano, synthesizer); Steve Nathan (synthesizer).
<p>Producers: Emory Gordy, Jr., Tony Brown, Tim Devine.
<p>Reissue producers: Steve Earle, Tony Brown, Andy McKaie.
<p>Engineers: Russ Martin, Chuck Ainlay, Steve Tillisch.
<p>Includes liner notes by Steve Earle.
<p>All tracks have been digitally remastered.
<p>This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio cd players.
<p>Steve Earle & The Dukes include: Steve Earle (vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, bass); Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar); Emory Gordy, Jr. (mandolin, bass); Ken Moore (organ, synthesizer); Harry Stinson (drums, background vocals).
<p>Additional personnel includes: Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar); John Jarvis (piano, synthesizer); Steve Nathan (synthesizer).
<p>Producers: Emory Gordy, Jr., Tony Brown, Tim Devine.
<p>Reissue producers: Steve Earle, Tony Brown, Andy McKaie.
<p>Engineers: Russ Martin, Chuck Ainlay, Steve Tillisch.
<p>Includes liner notes by Steve Earle.
<p>All tracks have been digitally remastered.
<p>A much-loved album that is one of the key records in the development of "new country". The image of the immaculate, conservative, singing cowboy was completely ruined by Earle. He was bad, he loved substance abuse and he played loud, dirty, rock 'n' roll-laced country rock. Through all the past excess he has emerged a survivor, and is in reality the Bruce Springsteen of "new country". He sings of ordinary life and pick-up trucks instead of pink Cadillacs. "Someday" highlights the perils of being trapped in a small town, with the last line giving some hope: "someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back".
<p>A much-loved album that is one of the key records in the development of "new country". The image of the immaculate, conservative, singing cowboy was completely ruined by Earle. He was bad, he loved substance abuse and he played loud, dirty, rock 'n' roll-laced country rock. Through all the past excess he has emerged a survivor, and is in reality the Bruce Springsteen of "new country". He sings of ordinary life and pick-up trucks instead of pink Cadillacs. "Someday" highlights the perils of being trapped in a small town, with the last line giving some hope: "someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back".
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Album Information :
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Guitar Town [Remaster] |
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UPC:008817026527
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Format:CD
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Type:Performer
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Genre:Rock & Pop - Country Rock
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Artist:Steve Earle
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Guest Artists:John Jarvis
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Label:MCA Records (USA)
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Distributed:Universal Distribution
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Release Date:2002/01/29
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Original Release Year:1986
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Discs:1
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Recording:Digital
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Mixing:Digital
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Mastering:Digital
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Length:33:59
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Mono / Stereo:Stereo
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Studio / Live:Studio
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Customer review - March 14, 2002
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
- A Masterpiece Revisited
Now beautifully restored to pristine analog, 'Guitar Town's' sound is warm, capturing bass lines lost in the original digital master released against Earle's wishes. Included is a seething live version of Springsteen's "State Trooper," captured during Earle's exhuberant concert at Chicago's Park West Theatre in August 1986, showcasing a young troubador ready to take on the world. To complete the package, MCA generously included some extra photos from the original Guitar Town session in downtown Nashville for this re-issue, which show just a hint of imminent trouble in Earle's eyes. Most welcome are Earle's illuminating, newly-penned liner notes, which tell of his attendance of a "Born In The USA" concert, (which inspired "Guitar Town,") and shed much-needed light on Guitar Town's genesis. Easily the most groundbreaking Nashville recording since Waylon Jennings' 1970's sessions, Guitar Town was #79 on Rolling Stone's 'Top 100 Albums of the 80's' list and was hailed by rock critics as the savior of country music. Guitar Town is a cornerstone of the mid-1980's "New Traditionalist" movement in Nashville, and continues to exert a massive influence on songwriters 16 years after it's release. Earle may never understand the full impact this recording will continue to have on future generations of songwriters, but the reappearance of this much-loved, maddeningly slow-selling Rosetta Stone of modern-day country music gives a good hint.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
- A Classic Revisited
Steve Earle is definitely the Hank Williams of our generation-except thankfully he's lived to tell the tale. "Guitar Town" is not his greatest release,but it jump started an awesome talent's career. And compared to the other releases of it's time,it was a masterpiece. "My Old Friend The Blues" still stands out as one of Steve's best songs,as does "Fearless Heart","Someday",and the title track. There really isn't a bad song on this CD,and the bonus live track,Springsteen's "State Trooper" is awesome,and fitting seeing as how Steve has always been compared to the Boss. But Steve Earle shouldn't be compared to anyone-he is a true original and one our best singer-songwriters around today. "Guitar Town" is a good start for anyone who has never heard Steve Earle,but don't stop there. Steve Earle's catalouge is vast and very much worth listening to.
Customer review - May 21, 2002
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
- Stunning
Inspired by his attendance of a Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA" concert in Tennessee, staff songwriter Steve Earle wanted to record a CD that "people would want to listen to start to finish." In the process, this monolithic showcase of neo-outlaw singing/songwriting inadvertantly struck a chord with a new country music audience: young, freshly college-educated, and thoroughly disenchanted with the Kenny Rogers/Urban Cowboy era, "Guitar Town" set a new level of expectation for country music. Earle's intensely personal, riveting, dusty blue collar vignettes steamrolled skepticism and garnered praise from 'Rolling Stone' and 'The Village Voice' before country radio even gave the CD a second look (or listen.) "Guitar Town" (featuring Richard Bennett's Duane Eddy-styled Danelectro guitar solo) became a #8 radio hit as young America embraced the song's escapist exhuberance and sent the CD to #1 in three weeks. "Someday," a masterpiece written about a kid stuck in a dead-end job pumping gas, got the attention of Bruce Springsteen and peaked at #12. "Good-bye's All We Got Left To Say" and "Hilbilly Highway" rounded out a 4-single chart run. Not a massive commercial success (only recently reaching sales of 500,000) this Dylanesque country project made the Rolling Stone "Top 100 Albums of the 80's" list. "Guitar Town" continues to have an monumental influence on singer/songwriters for it's fusion of pithy character development, catchy melodies and echoing guitar solos, and remains the cornerstone of what most likely was the most exciting, daring (and best) period in post-Hank Williams country music history.
Davy (Athens, GA) - August 01, 2004
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
- i'd like to give this one another .5, but whatever
i have just recently become an enormous steve earle fan...but i don't much care about the material from his early years cavorting around nashville. nashville is exactly what is wrong with this album...considering earle's gravelly, chevy-truck-commercial vocal style, glossy production is the LAST thing he needs. but that's what this is. and while it's hard to keep a good song down ("guitar town," for instance, and "someday"), i have a hard time listening. just doesn't feel right, doesn't feel genuine. that's ok, though, because with my next earle purchase--el corazon--i hit much closer to the mark. i bought this one because, a) it's his debut album, and generally quite highly regarded, and b) one of my wife's favorite songs in the world is "guitar town" and the only copy of it she had was on a live album. that live recording, in fact, the only SE album she owned. and i just couldn't in good conscience let that pass.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- The Other Springsteen
Steve Earle was the other Springsteen in the 1980's - honest, blue-collar rock, written from personal experience. A must-have in any collection.
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