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Article: EARLE RUSHES TO RECOUP LOST TIME SINGER SONGWRITER DODGED A BULLET WHEN HE GAVE UP DRUGS.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2003
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Byline: Tom Alesia Wisconsin State Journal
Three drug overdoses. Two pistols in his face. Three horrifying car wrecks. Five ex-wives. A month-long jail stint.
That's Steve Earle's ugly, ugly past.
Earle should be dead; he admits that. But those experiences keep him working at a frantic pace now, restoring his pre-drug addiction legacy as one of America's best songwriters.
"When you don't have to go out and find $500 worth of dope every day," Earle says with a snarl at his sordid history, "it seems like you have a lot of time."
So Earle, a rousing live act since he burst on the country scene in the mid-1980s, writes, tours and ...