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Death-house troubadour
Corn, Dave | August 25, 1997 issue

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Steve Earle pens and records songs that dish out the traditional fare of country music. The country rocker, much acclaimed for his edgy songwriting in the Texas troubadour tradition, has also written two of the best songs on a topic not often tackled by the good old boys and gals of Opryland, capital punishment. Amnesty International has even deployed one as an organizing tool in its anti-death penalty campaign. Recently, moments after he finished working on an album in Nashville for an act signed to his own label, E-Squared, the 42-year-old Earle, talking mighty fast, explained how his sawdust-and-whiskey voice came to be attached to evocative critiques of the death penalty.

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EARLE, Steve; CAPITAL punishment; COUNTRY music; POPULAR music; CRIMINAL law; PUNISHMENT
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