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Steve Earle & The Dukes on Mountain Stage

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Mountain Stage

Steve Earle & The Dukes on Mountain Stage

Celebrated country outlaw Steve Earle brings songs of love, loss, and coal country to Mountain Stage.

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New Mix: Steve Earle, Big Thief's Buck Meek, Katy Kirby, More

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New Mix: Steve Earle, Big Thief's Buck Meek, Katy Kirby, More

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite songs of the week including Steve Earle performing the work of his late son, Justin Townes Earle who died of an apparent drug overdose in August.

New Mix: Steve Earle, Big Thief's Buck Meek, Katy Kirby, More

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Steve Earle Tells The Story Of A West Virginian Mining Disaster Through Song

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World Cafe

Steve Earle Tells The Story Of A West Virginian Mining Disaster Through Song

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Earle knows the value of storytelling as a way to find our shared humanity. He used that talent to write the music for a play called Coal Country and make his latest album, Ghosts of West Virginia.

Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Featuring Music From Steve Earle, 'Coal Country' Recounts Deadly Mine Explosion

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Featuring Music From Steve Earle, 'Coal Country' Recounts Deadly Mine Explosion

A new play tells the story of the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia. Songwriter Steve Earle used it as a creative challenge to write his forthcoming album, Ghosts of West Virginia.

Featuring Music From Steve Earle, 'Coal Country' Recounts Deadly Mine Explosion

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Steve Earle & The Dukes On Mountain Stage

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Mountain Stage

Steve Earle & The Dukes On Mountain Stage

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Listen to the master storyteller pay tribute to Guy Clark and perform an unreleased song that he wrote for the upcoming play, Coal Country.

Steve Earle & The Dukes On Mountain Stage

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Steve Earle Pays Tribute To Guy Clark, His Songwriting Hero

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Steve Earle Pays Tribute To Guy Clark, His Songwriting Hero

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The guy who always calls it like he sees it remembers a late friend, mentor and outlaw music icon with a new album, GUY.

Steve Earle on World Cafe

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Steve Earle Sings To His Hero, Guy Clark

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Steve Earle Sings To His Hero, Guy Clark

At 21, Steve Earle left San Antonio, hitchhiked to Nashville and met his musical hero, Guy Clark, who was playing pool. That was 1974. Now, Earle pays tribute to Guy Clark on his new album, GUY.

Steve Earle Sings To His Hero, Guy Clark

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Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Steve Earle On World Cafe

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The prolific songwriter has a lifetime of stories, and you're gonna hear them — plus, a live performance of music from his latest album.

Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Colvin & Earle On World Cafe

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Colvin & Earle On World Cafe

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The two songwriters finish each other's phrases as they discuss the co-writing process for their new album as a duo. Hear the conversation and watch a live performance.

Colvin & Earle on World Cafe

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Steve Earle On World Cafe

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World Cafe

Steve Earle On World Cafe

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The rough-hewn country singer is back with a new album and a book. Listen to Earle play live in the WXPN studio and chat with World Cafe host David Dye.

Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Steve Earle: Tiny Desk Concert
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Steve Earle: Tiny Desk Concert

Earle has lived through the sort of horrors that have launched a million country songs: addiction, affliction, heartbreak, even prison. He wears them in his voice, but what's most appealing about him is the wide-eyed, unmistakable fearlessness with which he goes about his life these days.

Steve Earle: Tiny Desk Concert

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Lyle Lovett And Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Lyle Lovett And Steve Earle On World Cafe

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World Cafe's series of Cayamo Cruise performances continues with Lovett and Earle, who joined host David Dye for a special interview and live performances at an unlikely venue: a boat in the Caribbean.

Lyle Lovett And Steve Earle On World Cafe

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Kate And Anna McGarrigle At Carnegie Hall

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Kate And Anna McGarrigle At Carnegie Hall

Kate McGarrigle, who died Monday, performs a 2004 concert as a tribute to Emmylou Harris, with help from her sister Anna McGarrigle and her son Rufus Wainwright. Also on the bill: Patty Griffin, husband-and-wife songwriters Buddy and Julie Miller and guitarist Steve Earle.

Kate And Anna McGarrigle At Carnegie Hall

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Music Interviews

Steve Earle's Hero, Heckler: Townes Van Zandt

Van Zandt's songs of loners, lovers and misfits made a deep impression on Earle, so much so that he's made a new album of covers. Earle tells Melissa Block about Townes, a tribute to his friend and musical mentor.

Steve Earle's Hero, Heckler: Townes Van Zandt

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Steve And Justin Townes Earle: Life Lessons

Justin Townes Earle went into the same business as his father, country-rock singer-songwriter Steve Earle, who taught his son a lot about rebellion and making music. Together, they talk about the parallels between their lives growing up.

Steve And Justin Townes Earle: Life Lessons

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All Songs Considered

Sneak Previews: Of Montreal, Okkervil River

We'll soon begin making a list of the year's best albums. Okkervil River and Of Montreal are back. Also, Steve Earle and Gillian Welch, Jeff Hanson, The Walkmen and The Broken West.

Sneak Previews: Of Montreal, Okkervil River

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