Washington Square Serenade
On his 12th studio album, Steve Earle bids a final farewell to Guitar Town-- his nickname for Nashville and the title of his infamous 1986 debut-- and celebrates his move to the decidedly un-country town of New York City.
An angry Steve Earle is something to behold, but watch out for the man when he's in love. It's been three years since Earle's shrill, prickly The Revolution Starts…Now, but his new Washington Square Serenade leans on the tender company of country singer Allison Moorer, whom Earle married in 2005. And he isn't about to…
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Steve Earle wrote one such song on his 1997 album El Corazón, "NYC," in which a nervy kid from Tennessee hitchhikes to Manhattan because "there must be something happening, it's just too big a town," and a decade later Earle followed him, moving to New York to escape Red State malaise.
<p>Inspired by New York's energy and by his sixth wife, the country politico is aflame again. Cause for jubilation, says <strong>Graeme Thomson</strong>.</p>
If it wasn't evident from the title of his new record, Washington Square Serenade, Steve Earle lives in New York now.