Thursday, October 27, 2011
STEVE EARLE at the GLASGOW CARLING ACADEMY
After many years of acoustic performances Steve Earle returns with his full rock backing band.
It was refreshing to hear his old time hits the way they are supposed to sound.
Here is a good quality footage of his current tour ( The song "someday" starts at the 2min 30 sec mark:
His ubiquitous high profile political comment of the concert concerned immigration , "Immigration is Americas past ; present and ,if it has one, the Future."
Here is a good example of the tight sound the band has from footage taken at the concert:
For the second night in a row , the other being James , the Barrowlands got a glowing mention.
Steve related when he gets together with many musicians to do session work or jam the topic of Glasgow being an extra special place for concerts always comes up.The proof this is not just patronising talk is in the pudding as they say , and this being Steve third visit to Glasgow in little over two years is ample proof of that.
Here is a recording of the song Copperhead Road from the tour:
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