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Hardcore Troubadour : The Life and near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100007149425

ISBN-139780007149421

eBay Product ID (ePID)2343191

Product Key Features

Book TitleHardcore Troubadour : the Life and Near Death of Steve Earle

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicComposers & Musicians, General, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorLauren St. John

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight27.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-073874

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsSt. John does a fantastic job...Earle s story is a reminder that not all addict musicians burn out and die., Meticulously researched and well written...captures the heart and soul of one of America s most talented, troubled, and controversial songwriters., A sensitive and amusing book the Earle material is particularly entertaining, confessional and full of wicked one-liners., Hardcore Troubadour offers intimate and accurate behind-the-scenes of the songwriter s trials and tribulations....a fascinating new biography., A wonderfully spirited and sympathetic new biography...Earle is a worthy successor to the all time greats of American music., Brilliant...St. John manages to demythologize a man whose life often threatens to overshadow his music.

Dewey Decimal782.421642/092 B

SynopsisIf Steve Earle weren't a living, breathing person he'd be a character in a blues song, a raucous ballad that would tell the tale of a gifted rebel who drank too much, lost his career and almost all of his women in a blizzard of heroin and crack-cocaine addiction, and lived wildly and extravagantly on the wrong side of the law. Along the way, Earle has welded rock to country, the Beatles to Springsteen, Celtic to Americana, punk to bluegrass and has produced multiple Grammy-nominated albums and one enduring classic: Guitar Town. Like Hank Williams and Robert Johnson he has wandered across the American South; like Janis Joplin he has a huge capacity for self-destruction that matches an appetite for life in all its extremes. Like Stephen Foster, he is a storyteller and songwriter of rare skill and force whose sincerity echoes through all his work. A heroin addict since the age of fourteen, six times married to five different women, a man who took a four-year 'vacation in the ghetto', Steve Earle none the less survived. And he came back with an artistic and personal vision intact, determined to change society for the better even as he seemed set to live his life for the worse. Lauren St John has been allowed unrestricted access and cooperation by Steve, his family and friends. In exchange, she has written a hauntingly clear-eyed, unvarnished and uncompromising life of one of American music's talismanic sons.

LC Classification NumberML420.E176S8 2003