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Music CD - Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade (DIG)
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Music CD: Washington Square Serenade (DIG)
Artist: Steve Earle
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $11.87
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Manufacturer: New West Records
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Tracks:
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1. Tennessee Blues
2. Down Here Below
3. Satellite Radio
4. City Of Immigrants (with Forro In The Dark)
5. Sparkle And Shine
6. Come Home to Me
7. Jericho Road
8. Oxycontin Blues
9. Red Is The Color
10. Steve s Hammer (For Pete)
11. Day s Aren t Long Enough (with Allison Moorer)
12. Way Down In The Hole
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0607396612826
Label: New West Records
Manufacturer: New West Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: New West Records
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: New West Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: If you haven't yet fallen in love with Steve Earle, here's your latest chance. Wherever Steve Earle is is where Steve Earle shines, and for sure New York City is no exception. Each song is gorgeous, fresh and new. The writing and production is fabulous from what might be called "hillbilly hip-hop" on "Satellite Radio" and "Tennessee Blues" to the lilting, Beatlesque "Days Aren't Long Enough". Thoughtful, gentle "Come Home To Me" is especially poignant for those of us who've loved and lost and lived to finally find real love. "Down Here Below" is midtown Manhattan with a brilliant, NYC-meets-Tennessee banjo break. Other simply outstanding tracks include... every other song on the album. If you think you can write a song, listening to Steve Earle will either make you want to put down your pen forever or try a heck of a lot harder. The man just oozes impeccable music, and presents it in such a down home way he makes such genius seem as every-day as putting gas in your car, but we know better. I can't wait for more from Mr. Earle. Pale Male might not care, but I sure do.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Politically Correct Drivel
Comment: I like Steve Earle a lot and have several of his albums. The only song on this record I have heard is City of Immigrants. It is a catchy toon, but the lyrics are banal and politically correct. If you listen to it you will want to wrap your head in duct tape so it won't explode. The bridge is downright goofy.
Sorry Steve. You really tried too hard to be meaningful and ended up being pedagogical.
Aaakkk.
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Summary: Would have liked a couple rock tunes
Comment: Great CD I just wish it would have had a couple more rock tunes on it.
You know the one's that have that Keith Richard's feel. Loved the DVD as well,I just hope I don't have to wait 3 more years for some great Steve Earle tunes!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Old days gone.
Comment: This is not the old Mr. Earle. He changed some time ago. Acoustic or electric, he does not cut it for me anymore. I wish him well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Ever!
Comment: This is the best of Steve's career! Wonderful, catchy song rhythms and lyrics on many songs, great messages, beautiful backing vocals.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The title and opening songs of Washington Square Serenade are as much a celebration of New York City--Steve Earle's newly adopted home--as his breakthrough Guitar Town was an evocation of his previous home in Nashville. In fact, the opening "Tennessee Blues," with its acoustic guitar over a digital rhythm loop, bids "goodbye to Guitar Town," as he leaves with "a redhead by my side." That would be wife Allison Moorer, who harmonizes beautifully with her husband on "Days Aren't Long Enough," written by the two; provides background vocals elsewhere; and plainly inspires "Sparkle and Shine" and the bittersweet "Come Home to Me," two of the album's loveliest songs. The result is a new chapter in Earle's career, an album unlike any he's previously recorded, produced by John King of the Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys). While the raw, raging blues of "Red Is the Color" ranks with Earle's most powerful music, "Satellite Radio" could well be the slightest (as well as perhaps a plug for Earle's own radio show), but the artist's willingness to take chances attests to a restless creativity that refuses to be corralled. Other noteworthy tracks include the Brazilian-tinged "City of Immigrants," the tribute to Pete Seeger on "Steve's Hammer," and the closing rendition of Tom Waits's "Down in the Hole," which will serve as the theme music for Season 5 of The Wire. --Don McLeese More from Steve Earle 
Guitar Town | 
Train a Comin' | 
Copperhead Road |
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