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Steve Earle - Train a Comin' Audio CD

A fair review of the Steve Earle "Train a Comin'" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Steve Earle reviews here, or go back to the Steve Earle tabs.

Steve Earle Band: Steve Earle
Title: Train a Comin'
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Release Date: 1997-01-28
Media: Audio CD

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

Keep it in the limelight
Other CD's I was buying on Amazon kept bringing this one to the "people who bought this also bought. I realize I'm just 14 years late in reviewing this one of a kind CD. . . " comment. Knock on my door enough times, I'll finally open it for you. So I just discovered Steve Earle and this recording. It reminds me of several musicians. One being Guy Clark whom he praises in the liner notes.
Simply put, a great singer/song writer, and guitar picker. It's never too late to discover music. .


hear them tracks a' hummin'

Pretty much everyone I've played this for has the same reaction--it changed them. "Train a' Comin'" is the type of album that, after you listen to it, you're just left going, "Wow!" and although there are some super-catchy songs (most notably "Sometimes She Forgets,") it really takes a few listens to really completely love this record, or to at least fully appreciate it. I've learned more about songwriting from listening to this album than from any other record in my collection, save for my Townes Van Zandt and Hank Williams albums. Speaking of Townes, I often wonder what he thought of Steve's efforts, particularly this record. For those who don't know, Steve was Townes' protege back in the '70s when Mr. Earle was just a skinny kid bumming around Austin and later Nashville, tugging at the coattails of the likes of Townes, Jerry Jeff and Guy Clark. Of course, since Steve learned songwriting at the foot of the greatest songwriter who ever lived, it's easy to see why he became such a fantastic and important songwriter. Steve covers Townes' masterful "Tecumseh Valley" in such a heartfelt way that it comes close to making me favor it over the version on Townes' "Our Mother the Mountain," but I did write "almost. "
If you have the properly sequenced version of this album (the one that begins with "Mystery Train No. II,") then you are in for a heck of a ride that does not stop in its amazing quality. Many of these songs, like "Mercernary Song" and "Tom Ames' Prayer" date back to Steve's early days of songwriting, and it is astonishing to me how he wrote such lyrics at such a young age, but then again, he was hanging out with Townes, so I guess that explains it.
Truly one of the most touching recordings you'll ever hear. Take my word for it.
From one Texas songwriter to another: Steve Earle, my friend, your work never ceases to amaze or inspire me.
-chris edwards.


Essential Earle
This is my 3 year old grandson's favorite CD. I am a rockn grandma whose favorite songwriter/singer is Steve Earl. He likes to get on the dining room table to sing and dance to Steve. The boy is aquiring a sophisticated musical ear so he will never be seduced by musical pablum. .


Best of the Best
A great singer song writer by todays or yesterdays standards to be sure. One of my fav Earle albums, recorded during the heavy drug phase of his carrier. Steve Earle is one of the last true great american artists still putting out records and touring. Get it and you wont be dissapointed.


Earle's best.
All the songs are stripped down to their essence, the lyrics are top notch and Earle's voice never sounded better - reassured yet fragile, tobacco and alcohol ravaged, full of sadness and regret. This is by far the best and most cogent of Earle's albums.

This is the kind of album that belongs in the library of people who like Springsteen's "Nebraska", "Ghost of Tom Joad" and "The Seeger Sessions", The Pogues' "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" and "If I Should Fall From Grace of God", Johnny Cash's prison records, Bob Dylan, CCR, Hank Williams and others of this ilk. If you like any of the above buy this record and you shan't regret it.

Also do yourself a favor, buy "Galway Girl" off Earle's "Transcendental Blues" record, and when you rip this CD, add it to the track listing and re-burn. It fits this CD with uncanny naturalness.

Aside from "Train 'a Coming" the other one to own is the one he recorded with the DelMcoury band - that one's got more of a hoe down feel to it, but the musicians are top notch and Earle phones nothing in.


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