Steve Earle - Train a Comin`

Artist:

Earle, Steve

UPC:

093624635529

See Also:

Presley, Elvis Beatles (The) Williams, Hank

Description:

Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, 6-string, 12-string & high string guitars, mandolin, harmonica); Peter Rowan (vocals, gut string guitar, mandolin, mandola); Emmylou Harris (vocals); Norman Blake (Hawaiian guitar, guitar, dobro, mandolin, fiddle); Roy Huskey (acoustic bass).
Recorded at Magic Tracks Recording Studio and Masterfonics, Nashville, Tennessee. Originally released on Winter Harvest Entertainment (3302). Includes liner notes by Steve Earle.
TRAIN A COMIN` was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
When you need a break from THE MOUNTAIN (Earle`s 1999 release with the Del McCoury Band), you could flip on his earlier all-acoustic TRAIN A COMIN`. Released in 1995, after the Texas-born songwriter`s bout with heroin addiction and jail time, this was Earle`s "comeback album." Not only is it an unfiltered pleasure to hear Earle in such pared-down environs, but the band itself is a killer outfit. Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, and the late Roy Huskey don`t make "guest appearances" with the band-they are the band. And they`re allowed to do what they do best. Blake is even given a solo spot, the guitar instrumental "Northern Winds."
Earle draws on material written over the last 20 years, but there`s never a sense that he`s culling from his notebook material that he was smart enough not to record the first time around. "Tom Ames` Prayer," "Mercenary Song," and "Ben McCullough" are great story songs with at least one leg planted in the 19th Century. "Sometimes She Forgets," "Goodbye," and "Nothin` Without You" are the kind of smart, acrid love songs that will, of course, never show up on the country charts.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Hometown Blues
2. Mercenary Song
3. Goodbye
4. Tom Ames` Prayer
5. I`m Nothin` Without You
6. Angel Is the Devil
7. I`m Looking Through You
8. Northern Winds
9. Ben McCulloch
10. Rivers of Babylon
11. Tecumseh Valley
12. Sometimes She Forgets
13. Mystery Train Part II

Album Information

Release Date:

01/28/1997

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alt Country

Label:

Warner Bros.

Producer:

William Alsobrook; Steve Earle

Catalog Number:

46355

Original Release Year:

1995

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

ADD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Guest Artist:

Emmylou Harris; Peter Rowan; Norman Blake

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