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DISCID=7308170a
DTITLE=Steve Earle / Guitar Town (West German Pressing)
DYEAR=1986
DGENRE=Country
TTITLE0=Guitar Town
TTITLE1=Goodbye's All We've Got Left
TTITLE2=Hillbilly Highway
TTITLE3=Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)
TTITLE4=My Old Friend The Blues
TTITLE5=Someday
TTITLE6=Think It Over
TTITLE7=Fearless Heart
TTITLE8=Little Rock 'N' Roller
TTITLE9=Down The Road
EXTD=Guitar Town (West German Pressing)\n\nOriginally Released March 1
EXTD=986\nOriginal CD Released March 28, 1988\nRemastered CD Released 
EXTD=January 29, 2002\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: On Steve Earle's first maj
EXTD=or American tour following the release of his debut album, Guitar
EXTD= Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill with Dwight Yoakum one 
EXTD=night and the Replacements another, and one listen to the album e
EXTD=xplains why -- while the music was country through and through, E
EXTD=arle showed off enough swagger and attitude to intimidate anyone 
EXTD=short of Keith Richards. While Earle's songs bore a certain resem
EXTD=blance to the Texas Outlaw ethos (think Waylon Jennings in "Lones
EXTD=ome, Orn'ry and Mean" mode), they displayed a literate anger and 
EXTD=street-smart snarl that set him apart from the typical Music Row 
EXTD=hack, and no one in Nashville in 1986 was able (or willing) to wr
EXTD=ite anything like the title song, a hilarious and harrowing tale 
EXTD=of life on the road ("Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still ca
EXTD=n/Got a two pack habit and motel tan") or the bitterly unsentimen
EXTD=tal account of small town life "Someday" ("You got to school wher
EXTD=e you learn to read and write/so you can walk into the county ban
EXTD=k and sign away your life"), the latter of which may be the best 
EXTD=Bruce Springsteen song the Boss didn't write. And even when Earle
EXTD= gets a bit teary-eyed on "My Old Friend the Blues" and "Little R
EXTD=ock 'n' Roller," he showed off a battle-scarred heart that was to
EXTD=ugher and harder-edged than most of his competition. Guitar Town 
EXTD=is slightly flawed by an overly tidy production from Emory Gordy 
EXTD=Jr. and Tony Brown as well as a band that never hit quite as hard
EXTD= as Earle's voice, and Earle would make many stronger and more am
EXTD=bitious records in the future, but Guitar Town was his first shot
EXTD= at showing a major audience what he could do, and he hit a bull'
EXTD=s-eye -- it's perhaps the strongest and most confident debut albu
EXTD=m any country act released in the 1980s. -- Mark Deming\n\nAmazon
EXTD=.com essential recording \nOn this 1986 debut, Steve Earle burst 
EXTD=on the scene as a fully formed songwriting master, synthesizing e
EXTD=ffortlessly the finest parts of country-folk troubadours like Tow
EXTD=nes Van Zandt and the anthemic, working-class rock of Bruce Sprin
EXTD=gsteen. "Someday," a country-rock masterpiece about a kid stuck p
EXTD=umping gas in a dead-end town, remains the perfect realization of
EXTD= this style, and with the exception of the slight and silly "Litt
EXTD=le Rock 'N' Roller," most everything else here (especially "Hillb
EXTD=illy Highway" and the heartbreaking ballad "My Old Friend the Blu
EXTD=es") comes awfully close. The 2002 reissue, overseen by Earle and
EXTD= original producer Tony Brown, offers fresh remastering, new line
EXTD=r notes by Earle, and a bonus live version of Springsteen's "Stat
EXTD=e Trooper." --David Cantwell \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nStil
EXTD=l Essential 16 Years Later, January 31, 2002 \nReviewer: Steve Vr
EXTD=ana from Aurora, NE USA \nI bought this album on vinyl when it wa
EXTD=s first released in 1986--the same year that Dwight Yoakam debute
EXTD=d with Guitars, Cadilacs, Etc., Etc. While both artists used diff
EXTD=erent approaches (Earle filtered his music through rock, while Yo
EXTD=akam leaned more toward honky-tonk and the Bakersfield sound), bo
EXTD=th artists brought an honesty and integrity to country music that
EXTD= had been missing from mainstream country. All tracks were writte
EXTD=n or co-written by Earle with the exception of the bonus track, a
EXTD= live version of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper." [This bonus
EXTD= track was originally released in 1986 on an EP and is also avail
EXTD=able on the 2-CD anthology Ain't Ever Satisifed.] Earle has put o
EXTD=ut a string of excellent albums over the years, but his debut is 
EXTD=arguably his strongest. He's never fit in with the hat acts of th
EXTD=e past two decades--Earle is too much of a rebel for that--but as
EXTD= he sings on the title track: "Hey, pretty baby are you ready for
EXTD= me/yeah, it's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee." Coun
EXTD=try radio may not have been ready, but they sure needed him. HIGH
EXTD=LY RECOMMENDED \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nOne of the most en
EXTD=dearing and moving records ever made, November 9, 2000 \nReviewer
EXTD=: RedTunicTroll from Earth, USA \nAfter an indie EP release and a
EXTD=n aborted recording career at Epic (some of which saw the light o
EXTD=n "The Early Years" after "Guitar Town" established itself as a h
EXTD=it), producer Tony Brown convinced MCA to pick Earle up, and the 
EXTD=result is perhaps one of the greatest singer-songwriter country-r
EXTD=ock LPs ever recorded. \n\nEarle's early mentoring by Townes Van 
EXTD=Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker informs the brilliance with which his
EXTD= lyrics describe a character's emotion and turmoil from the insid
EXTD=e, while the burgeoning neo-traditional Country (Travis, Yokam) a
EXTD=nd blue-collar rock (Springsteen, Mellancamp) give his music its 
EXTD=kick.\n\nTen originals, nearly every one a classic in its own way
EXTD=. Even the trifles (e.g., "Little Rock 'n' Roller") add to the al
EXTD=bum's overall feeling of characters in need of release - emotiona
EXTD=l and physical. His tales range from kids stuck in small towns nu
EXTD=rturing their big dreams (bringing to mind Brian Wilson's "I Get 
EXTD=Around" and the movie "Footloose"!) to broken hearts that have no
EXTD=thing more to cozy up to than their own sadness. It's rare to fin
EXTD=d a writer who so transparently translates his emotions into word
EXTD=s, and a songwriter who so transparently translates his words int
EXTD=o music.\n\nRecorded in Nashville with Tony Brown's guidance, Ear
EXTD=le's LP debut is his most consistent and potent release to date. 
EXTD=\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nJr. Emory Gordy, Producer\nTony Brown
EXTD=, Producer\n\n\nAlbum Notes\nSteve Earle & The Dukes include: Ste
EXTD=ve Earle (vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, bass); Bucky Baxter (
EXTD=pedal steel guitar); Emory Gordy, Jr. (mandolin, bass); Ken Moore
EXTD= (organ, synthesizer); Harry Stinson (drums, background vocals).A
EXTD=dditional personnel includes: Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar);
EXTD= John Jarvis (piano, synthesizer); Steve Nathan (synthesizer).Pro
EXTD=ducers: Emory Gordy, Jr., Tony Brown, Tim Devine.Reissue producer
EXTD=s: Steve Earle, Tony Brown, Andy McKaie.Engineers: Russ Martin, C
EXTD=huck Ainlay, Steve Tillisch.Includes liner notes by Steve Earle.A
EXTD=ll tracks have been digitally remastered.A much-loved album that 
EXTD=is one of the key records in the development of "new country". Th
EXTD=e image of the immaculate, conservative, singing cowboy was compl
EXTD=etely ruined by Earle. He was bad, he loved substance abuse and h
EXTD=e played loud, dirty, rock 'n' roll-laced country rock. Through a
EXTD=ll the past excess he has emerged a survivor, and is in reality t
EXTD=he Bruce Springsteen of "new country". He sings of ordinary life 
EXTD=and pick-up trucks instead of pink Cadillacs. "Someday" highlight
EXTD=s the perils of being trapped in a small town, with the last line
EXTD= giving some hope: "someday I'll put her on that interstate and n
EXTD=ever look back".\n\nRolling Stone Magazine (11/01/1989)\nRanked #
EXTD=79 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums Of The 80s survey.\n\nR
EXTD=olling Stone (11/01/1989)\nRanked #79 in Rolling Stone's 100 Grea
EXTD=test Albums Of The 80s survey.Mojo (6/00, p.43) - ...The rock edg
EXTD=e and attitude that [he] brought to the table marked him out from
EXTD= the country crowd straight away....a landmark debut.\n\nMojo (06
EXTD=/01/2000)\n...The rock edge and attitude that [he] brought to the
EXTD= table marked him out from the country crowd straight away....a l
EXTD=andmark debut.
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