Audio CD review:
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

Band: Steve Earle Title: Copperhead Road Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Copperhead Road 2: Snake Oil 3: Back To The Wall 4: The Devil's Right Hand 5: Johnny Come Lately 6: Even When I'm Blue 7: You Belong To Me 8: Waiting On You 9: Once You Love 10: Nothing But A Child

Editoral Review For Steve Earle, this third so-so effort from the then-roué-ish troubadour was a pretty glaring rehab-ahead warning light. It happens to every hard partier--your lifestyle eventually catches up to you. The sloppiness was beginning to show: half the disc bogs down in throwaways, cheap echoes of Guitar Town and Exit 0's country-rock acumen. The rest, fortunately, is prime, focused Earle: the Vietnam-vet title track, the Wild West-themed "Snake Oil," and the oft-covered classic "The Devil's Right Hand," in which the composer achieves that perfect balance of city-slick pop and hillbilly twang. Earle would hit that one-two combo again, but not until he shook that party monkey a few albums later. --Tom Lanham .. You can see a complete list of all Steve Earle discography, or go back to the Steve Earle tabs