Tag: I Feel Alright

Steve Earle Performs “Invisible” on David Letterman and Announces Box Set

I have been listening to Steve Earle’s new CD, The Low Highway, and enjoying it. I will probably have more to say about it after some more listens, but in the meantime, check out this video. Earlier this week, Steve Earle was on the Late Show With David Letterman, where he performed his new song about the homeless, “Invisible.”

According to Rolling Stone, that is Chris Masterson playing the pedal steel and Eleanor Masterson playing the violin.

Steve Earle Box Set In other Steve Earle news, Earle and Shout! Factory announced that on June 25 they will release a box set entitled, Steve Earle: The Warner Bros. Years. The box set will feature his three great post-prison albums from the 1990s, Train a Comin’, I Feel Alright, and El Corazón. The package will also include a fourth CD of an unreleased concert album Live at the Polk Theater from 1995. The Nashville concert was his first after being released from jail. Additionally, the box set will contain a DVD of a 1996 concert at the Cold Creek Correctional Facility in Tennessee, To Hell and Back.

American Songwriter has the track listings and Billboard has the audio of a live version of “Devil’s Right Hand” from the new set. Because I already have the three previously released albums (and they are among my favorite CDs of all time, I hope they also release the additional material separately.

What is your favorite Steve Earle song? Leave your two cents in the comments.

  • Steve Earle Performs Tracks from “The Low Highway” on KEXP
  • Steve Earle Performing “The Low Highway” and “Invisible”
  • Steve Earle Sings About the Homeless on “Invisible”
  • Valentine’s Day: Steve Earle and the Fairfield Four
  • Nanci Griffith’s Superstars on Letterman: “Desperados Waiting for a Train”
  • I woke up this morning, and none of the news was good: Steve Earle’s “Jerusalem” (Song of the Day)

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    Valentine’s Day: Steve Earle and the Fairfield Four

    There are many great love songs. But I am not sure there is a better one specifically about Valentine’s Day than Steve Earle’s song, “Valentine’s Day” from his 1996 album, I Feel Alright.

    In this live version of the song below, Earle has The Fairfield Four providing backing vocals. And I’m not sure anyone has ever made a better video of a song.

    The beauty of the song is how it turns the cliches around, reminding us that the things we associate with Valentine’s Day are things that really do not have much to do with love. The singer tells how he forgot about the holiday so does not have a card, flowers, diamonds or gold to give.

    Finally, the singer offers an IOU and to make it all up to the person, concluding, “Until then I hope my heart will do.”

    Happy Valentine’s Day.

  • Steve Earle Performs “Invisible” on David Letterman and Announces Box Set
  • Nanci Griffith’s Superstars on Letterman: “Desperados Waiting for a Train”
  • I woke up this morning, and none of the news was good: Steve Earle’s “Jerusalem” (Song of the Day)
  • Steve Earle Covers Justin Townes Earle’s “Harlem River Blues”
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  • Steve Earle’s “Ghosts of West Virgina” (album review)

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