Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle

by John, Lauren St

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"Steve jerked blearily back to consciousness to find himself manacled in the back of a police car." Quotes like this are a dime a dozen throughout Lauren St. John's never-dull biography of the mercurial country singer Steve Earle, a born rebel whose edge-of-the-precipice lifestyle would terrify pantywaists like Keith Richards and Sid Vicious. Beset with the commercial setback of playing alternative country music in the 1980s--before the label existed--Earle nevertheless recorded respectably selling albums like GUITAR TOWN and COPPERHEAD ROAD, which, along with serial problems with the law, cemented his reputation as a country music outlaw genius. While Earle's recreational pursuits are the stuff of rock legend (St. John's research uncovers marital bust-ups, tequila and marijuana-fueled Mexican sojourns, and barroom brawls, as well as periods of extraordinary musical inspiration), his creative impulse illuminates the book's narrative, defying the clichéd poverty-riches-obscurity trajectory of many less-talented musicians' careers.