Steve Earle’s 1988 Copperhead Road album ends very differently than it begins. The album starts with the hard rock title track about a Vietnam veteran who — similar to his bootlegging father and grandfather — ends up growing illegal drugs. The album ends, by contrast, with a Christmas song, “Nothing But a Child.” Earle originally … Continue reading "Once Upon a Time in a Far Off Land (Steve Earle’s “Nothing But a Child”)"