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Article: Hard Road Rebound // Earle's Return Tells Country's Best Tale
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 24, 1995
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One of the most significant country music events of 1995 was the
phoenix-like flight of Steve Earle.
A decade ago Earle made records with loud drums, grinding
guitars and gutsy lyrics that set the table for country music's roots
movement. Everyone from the Mavericks, the 1995 Country Music
Association Group of the Year to Emmylou Harris embraced Earle's
unbending passion.
But Earle was hellbent on being Hank Williams.
For the past five years, Earle has been presumed dead and
assumed innocent. Until this year, his life had been a series of
self-inflicted crashes and burns, culminating in the summer of 1994
when Nashville cops busted the singer-songwriter with crack cocaine,
a glass pipe ...