Townes

The culmination of a three-and-a-half-decade admiration, Steve Earle's latest is a Townes Van Zandt cover album.

According to legend, a young Steve Earle once declared, “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Over the years, Earle has continued to tout Van Zandt—even naming his son Justin Townes Earle—and now he’s carrying that…