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Steve Earle   12/??/1987

McCabe's Guitar Sop compilation, Santa Monica, CA
Media flac.cdr   2 discs
Notes the 4 discs listed can be combined into 2 discs
J-Card Comment 12-19-87 (early show)

Disc 1

1 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
2 Angry Young Man
3 Hometown Blues
4 My Old Friend The Blues
5 Someday
6 Johnny Come Lately
7 Nothing But A Child
8 Lungs (Townes Van Zandt)
9 So Different Blues (Mance Lipscomb)
10 Limousine Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins)
11 The Rain Came Down
12 Copperhead Road

Disc 2

1. Even When I'm Blue
2. I Ain't Ever Satisfied
3. No. 29
4. The Devil's Right Hand
5. Guitar Town


12-19-87 (late show)

Disc 1

1 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
2 Angry Young Man
3 Hometown Blues
4 My Old Friend The Blues
5 Someday
6 Little Sister (Greg Trooper)
7 Little Rock & Roller
8 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [David Olney]
9 Limousine Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins)
10 Even When I'm Blue
11 Johnny Come Lately
12 Copperhead Road

Disc 2

1. I Ain't Ever Satisfied
2. Nothing But A Child
3. Down The Road
4. Fearless Heart
5. White Freightliner Blues (Townes Van Zandt)
6. Nebraska [Bruce Springsteen]
7. Continental Trailways Blues



This set was compiled from the 6 CD-R set of three shows (one recorded December 18, and two on December 19) at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA during Steve Earle's December 1987 solo acoustic tour. These shows were a great glimpse at both where Earle had been and where he was headed; the setlists included some of his earliest songwriting efforts, then-unrecorded songs that would appear on Copperhead Road (and some that would not see released versions until 1995's Train A Comin'), and a number of covers. His manner, as well, is worth noting; his jokes, friendliness, and general ease seem at odds with the incredible turmoil in his life at the time (this was when his woman troubles and heroin addiction were spiraling out of control, and less than two weeks before the Dallas arrest for assaulting a police officer that would haunt him for years)...Though lo-fi audience recordings, these are still far more than merely "listenable" and a great glimpse at an artist at his most raw and pure, captured at an intimate and legendary venue.



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Ratings Show: A    Sound: B+
Owned by courtney · Last Updated May 23, 2023