Steve Earlewith Charlie Mars in Charlottesville

Steve Earlewith Charlie Mars

Steve Earle was honored last night by the Recording Academy with a Grammy® Nomination for his album I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (New West Records) in the Best Folk Album Category. I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive was produced by T Bone Burnett and is the follow up to Earle's Grammy Award winning 2009 release Townes. The album features the celebrated song "This City," which was written for the HBO Original Series, Treme, which Earle also appeared as an actor. "This City" garnered a Grammy Award Nomination for last year's ceremony as well as Earle's first ever Emmy® Award Nomination. Of the collection of songs, Earle stated "They are all, as far as I can tell, about mortality in one way or the other; death as a mystery rather than a punctuation mark or at least, a comma rather than a period."

Earle recently completed a worldwide tour in support of the album. A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Earle quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and immediately established the term "New Country." What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the biting hard rock of Copperhead Road (1988), the minimalist beauty of Train A Comin' (1995), the politically charged masterpiece, Jerusalem (2002) and the Grammy Award Winning albums The Revolution Starts…Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007) and Townes (2009). I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive is Steve Earle's 14th Studio Album and shares the same name with his 2011 debut novel. Of the novel, Patti Smith stated, "Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive is like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades."

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