As an Indiana native I was unaware of Earle's connection with Crane and Mellencamp. Thank you.

Guitar Town is one of my favourite albums.🍁

That was the first vinyl record I bought and it’ll never leave me .

Amazing guy with some legendary history. I can't believe it wasn't until the show The Wire that I had heard of him. RIP to Justin. Great interview here.

This is great.

Just amazing this is classic music good stuff

i've always been interested in that mid-80s "heartland rock" thing that went down with earle/petty/bruce/mellencamp/lobos. the vietnam thing, the farm crisis, the beginning of massive deindustrialization, reaganomics, all kind of found traction in what these guys were writing about. it expressed itself in a sort of confused populism that people still don't understand and mistake as moral majority conservatism when every one of the key performers was/is an unapologetic lefty. nice interview. awkward ending though.

@wigs2u

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing awkward about the ending. It's a wrap!

@highjenks3d

6 жыл бұрын

Putaspellonyou how old are you if you don't mind me asking, I grew up through it watched the family farm auxtioned off, after 4 generations being the 5th with a future of the unknown, now in the grasp of the urban sprawl of the grid my identity has become known as a number 156 is all that's shown

@highjenks3d

6 жыл бұрын

And we go on as if nothing has happened

@issacmilo5055

3 жыл бұрын

A tip : watch series on instaflixxer. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

@zaydenluciano1124

3 жыл бұрын

@Issac Milo yea, been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself :)

He’s spot on about West Virginia.

All politics aside, can anyone else agree and relate on what steve has to say about even when I’m blue?

Am I the only one who noticed Strombo's inverted crucifix necklace? Not making a point one way or another, just an interesting observation.

Great. and funny shite as well

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"All this black stuff in the ground is running out" LMAO! 1980's outdated profundity.

Love the music keep the politics to yourself

@billcbren

3 жыл бұрын

If you agreed with his politics, you'd be cheering him. Typical right-wing hypocrite.

@castanzes

2 жыл бұрын

Why should he?

Steve writing about the common working man is great. Steve talking politics is bullshit.

@gmoore6166

4 жыл бұрын

sdushdiu yep! Rip the very system that made you rich and tell others how bad it is and instill rebellion and disrespect while you’re tooling around living the highlife off the system you’re singing and putting down! Love his music but like Crosby, Nash and the others who do the same thing who made a career bitching about the system that made them rich!!! How hypocritical is that?

@johndeere8594

2 жыл бұрын

@@gmoore6166 You left out Springsteen.

@henry__49

14 күн бұрын

The man’s entitled to his opinion. The last ones I remember listening to are The Mountain and Jerusalem.

Here again like David Crosby, Graham Nash and the likes, they all have made tons of money off capitalism but bemoans the system! The 70s spawned some of the biggest leftist hypocrites! All their music was great but their politics are terrible and confused, you can’t become filthy rich using the system then tell others how terrible it is and to rebel while you are living the high life off of that very system! Steve I do love your music and wish you well ( I’m a child of the 60s & 70s myself) but drop the politics and stick to your god given talent! Love you dude, keep creating!

@DavidWilson-yj3si

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on..Truth.

@DavidWilson-yj3si

4 жыл бұрын

I love Steves music..he is wealthy enough he like most rich liberals dont have to live with the day to day consequences of liberal policies...wages driven down by illegal immigrantion being just one example.

@billcbren

3 жыл бұрын

Yet another right-wing phony. If his politics were similar to those of Hank Williams Jr., you'd have no problem with him expressing them.

@gmoore6166

3 жыл бұрын

Bill Brennan he can Express his politics all he wants and that’s not what I said. I have no problem with him expressing himself, I just call him out as the hypocrite he is but I still like his music. What does Hank Williams have to do with it? I don’t agree with all his politics either as I believe entertainers should stick to entertaining and quit pushing their political beliefs on their fans. I grew up in the late 60s - early 70s music and even as a young adult I saw the hypocrisy of a lot of the people like CSNY and others as their political songs were about the establishment and how terrible it was but they were making money hand over fist in the very same establishment.

@devilsforkdigital1490

Жыл бұрын

Bullshit. You can make money and still criticize capitalism, because currently short of moving to a socialist country you have no alternative but to live in it. Being critical of capitalism doesn't mean you have to personally choose to live in poverty or give all your worldly goods away. We all need "stuff" to live. If you live in the US you're obliged to participate in a capitalist economy to get it.

I love your music, I strongly dislike your politics.

I prayed Trump into office with many others as a single one. Trump is the decendent of Cyrus the great prophesied by the Chosen of The All. Jesus The Nazarene is FatherSon.

@jimiverson4831

4 жыл бұрын

Time for your medication pal

@jduke4664

4 жыл бұрын

O K

@billcbren

3 жыл бұрын

Psycho.