Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection CD

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection CD music All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Can't Let Go" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Williams's fans waited a long six years for this album, as Lucinda went through music business hassles and a revolving door of producers. The reward for their patience is an album full of rootsy, heartfelt observations that alternately rock and mourn. CAR WHEELS is full of songs about loss and longing, like "Metal Firecracker," "Drunken Angel" and "I Lost It," but even when she's bemoaning her own lack of happiness on the bluesy "Joy," she lets loose with so much passion that it seems inevitable she'll find her emotional center again. Produced largely by Steve Earle, CAR WHEELS is immersed in that late-'90s alt-country sound, full of slide guitar, accordion, dobro and other Americana touches. It's a tribute to Williams's unique artistic vision that she distinguishes herself from the No Depression crowd by virtue of her idiosyncratic songwriting. Full of lust, sadness and the occasional glimmer of hope, CAR WHEELS is one small step for Lucinda Williams and one giant leap for those tuned into her wavelength. Principally recorded at Room And Board Studio, Nashville, Tennessee. Personnel: Lucinda Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro); Lucinda Williams (guitar); Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale (vocals); Buddy Miller (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Steve Earle (guitar, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, harmonica); Gurf Morlix (guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, slide guitar); Charlie Sexton (guitar, electric guitar, dobro); Johnny Lee Schell (electric guitar, slide guitar, dobro); Bo Ramsey (electric guitar, slide guitar); Greg Leisz (12-string guitar, mandolin); Ray Kennedy (12-string guitar); Roy Bittan (accordion, organ); John Ciambotti (bass guitar); Donald Lindley (drums, percussion). Audio Mixers: Jim Scott ; Ray Kennedy; Rick Rubin. Recording information: Room And Board Studio, Nashville, TN; Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, CA. Photographers: Birney Imes; Alan Messer; Miller Williams. Personnel: Lucinda Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro); Buddy Miller (acoustic & electric guitars, mando guitar, background vocals); Steve Earle (acoustic & resonator guitars, harmonica, background vocals); Gurf Morlix (6 & 12 string electric guitars, electric & acoustic slide guitars, background vocals); Charlie Sexton (electric & slide guitars, dobro); Johnny Lee Schell (electric & slide guitars, dobro); Bo Ramsey (electric & slide guitars); Ray Kennedy, Greg Leisz (12 string electric guitar, mandolin); Richard "Hombre" Price (dobro); Roy Bittan (accordion, Hammond B-3 organ, organ); Michael Smotherman (Hammond B-3 organ); John Ciambotti (acoustic & electric basses); ...

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection songs The 1996 reissue of WANTED! THE OUTLAWS includes nine additional tracks from the original sessions and one new song ("Nowhere Road"). Digitally remastered by Benny Quinn (Masterfonics, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee). In the mid-1970s, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and a few other cohorts turned the Nashville country establishment on its ear, introducing a gritty, rock & roll feel and iconoclastic, rebellious sensibility to the staid institution country music had become. The breath of fresh air that they were, they became hugely popular, and were justly hailed as the vanguard of "Outlaw Country." After releasing a number of definitive solo albums in the preceding few years, Jennings and Nelson collaborated on one of the most popular albums of the genre, 1976's WANTED! THE OUTLAWS. Aided by Waylon's wife Jessi Colter and pal Tompall Glaser (of the Glaser Brothers), they crafted perhaps the ultimate Outlaw Country mission statement. The rough-and-ready ethos of Jennings's "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)" and Nelson's "Me and Paul" is pretty much ground zero for the style, bearing undeniable energy, earthy humanism, and irresistibly catchy lyrical and melodic motifs. Jennings and Nelson would scale even greater heights of fame in the years to come, but were seldom ever as much at the top of their game. /Willie Nelson/Jessi Colter/Tompall Glaser. Includes liner notes by Chet Flippo. Personnel includes: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser (vocals); Steve Earle (acoustic guitar); Richard Bennett (guitar, mando-guitar); Robby Turner (pedal steel); Mickey Raphael (bass harmonica); Garry Tallent (bass); Greg Morrow (drums); Ray Kennedy (tambourine). Producers include: Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser, Ronny Light, Danny Davis, Chet Atkins. Compilation producer: Steve Lindsey. Engineers include: Al Pachucki, Leslie Ladd, Tom Pick.

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection album for sale This CD commemorates Willie Nelson's 70th Birthday (April 30, 2003). The catalog of Willie Nelson is so vast and rich that assembling an "essential" collection of only one or two discs seems nearly impossible. RCA's single-disc 1995 attempt was admirable and worthy, but doomed by space limitations. With a bit more room to move, Legacy's roomier two-disc collection is about close as anyone could hope to come. We get the full view of the great singer/songwriter's artistic journey. "Hello Walls" and the evergreen "Crazy" hail from the days when Nelson was tooling around Nashville as a songwriter for hire but mystifyingly unable to connect as a solo artist. His transformation into a counterculture icon via the '70s "outlaw country" movement is marked by the likes of "Me and Paul" and "Bloody Mary Morning." His tremendous skill as in interpreter can be heard in such standards as "Blue Skies" and "Georgia on Mind," which helped make him a crossover success in the STARDUST era. Latter-day collaborations with everyone from Aerosmith ("One Time Too Many") to U2 ("Slow Dancing") show Willie's mercurial, eclectic nature. Add it all up and a portrait comes together of a man whose artistic vision has carried him across decades and stylistic shifts aplenty and seen him through in style. Recorded between 1961 & 2002. 2cds-40 All Time Country Classics 1961-2002 Personnel includes: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Ray Price, Leann Womack, Julio Iglesias, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, Aerosmith. Producers include: Felton Jarvis, Arif Mardin, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Booker T. Jones. Compilation producers: Nich Shaffman, Al Quaglieri. Audio Mixers: Michael Brauer; Steven Berkowitz. Recording information: ??/1961-12/2001.

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection buy CD music All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. EL CORAZON was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Steve Earle was a country-rock renegade when Uncle Tupelo were still in short pants and NO DEPRESSION was an inscription on a Prozac bottle. EL CORAZON stands as a milestone in the long, checkered career of an artist who's been to hell and back without losing an ounce of his songwriting talent. This uniformly excellent batch of tunes alternates between gentle acoustic ballads and hard-rocking numbers that could give those grunge boys a run for their money. (In fact, Seattle's Supersuckers guest on one track.) On the opener, "Christmas in Washington," Earle invokes the spirit of bygone heroes like Woody Guthrie and Martin Luther King in service of an unpretentious folk ballad of socio-political discontent. He shows off his storytelling chops on the rocking "Taneytown," supported by the breathy harmonies of Emmylou Harris. The elegiac "Ft. Worth Blues" pays tribute to Earle's old running buddy and primary influence, the late Townes Van Zandt. Throughout, the album lives up to its title, spilling messy emotions all over the place and wallowing in the carnage. Recorded at Room & Board, Nashville, Tennessee and Ironwood Studios, Seattle, Washington. Includes liner notes by Steve Earle. Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, mandola, harmonica, harmonium); Del McCoury (vocals, guitar); Ronnie McCoury (vocals, mandolin); Ross Rice (vocals, drums); Emmylou Harris (vocals); Mark Stuart (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Justin Townes Earle, Dan Bolton, Renaldo Allegre, David Steele (electric guitar); Tommy Hannum (steel guitar); Rob McCoury (banjo); Jason Carter (fiddle); Ray Kennedy (harmonium, drums, shaker, tambourine); Michael Smotherman (organ); Rev. Brady Blade (drums, washboard, tambourine, percussion); Dancing Eagle (drums). Unknown Contributor Roles: Supersuckers; The Fairfield Four. Personnel includes: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, mandola, harmonica, harmonium); Mark Stuart (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola); Brad Jones (vocals, bass); Ross Rice (vocals, drums); Emmylou Harris, Siobhan Kennedy (vocals); David Steele (guitar, electric guitar); Tommy Hannum (pedal steel & steel guitars); Jim Hoke (baritone saxophone); Michael Smotherman (organ); Ray Kennedy (harmonium, hand drum, shaker, tambourine); Roy Huskey Jr. (bass); Brady Blade (drums, percussion, rub board, tambourine); Dancing Eagle (drums); The Fairfield Four, The Supersuckers. The Del McCoury Band: Del McCoury (vocals, guitar); Ronnie McCoury (vocals, mandolin); Rob McCoury (banjo); Jason Carter (fiddle); Mike Bubb (bass).

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection songs I FEEL ALRIGHT is country-rocker Steve Earle's first album of new material following a well-documented five-year residency on the wrong side of the Nashville tracks. Like TRAIN A COMIN', the acoustic set of folk and pop covers with which he made his quiet return a year earlier, this full-band record offers no apologies. It does offer a rocking reclamation of all the blues, folk and country Springsteenisms and Dylanisms that made Earle's return worth waiting for. One of its highlights is a searing, acoustic blues number, "CCKMP," on which Earle declares himself free of most of his former demons. The title stands for "cocaine cannot kill my pain"; the incredibly dark punch line dryly notes that heroin still can. Earle's voice is a blurry twang in which all those demons seem to have left a residue. When on the rollicking opening cut he announces that, "I've been to hell and now I'm back again/I feel alright," you know he means it, but you don't know if he's strong enough to hold on. Which, ironically, is the source of I FEEL ALRIGHT's power. These are songs that seek, in folk and rock and blues, the kind of redemption that life itself can't always offer. Recorded at Room & Board and Treasure Isle, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Steve Earle. Engineers: Ray Kennedy, Peter Coleman, Richard Dodd. Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Custer (vocals, drums, percussion); Logan, Lucinda Williams, The Fairfield Four (vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, harmonica, harmonium, percussion); Ray Kennedy (guitar); Richard Grosjean, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin (violin); Lee Larrison (viola); Robert Mason (cello); Ken Moore (organ); Roy M. "Junior" Husky, Garry Tallent, Ric Kipp, Kelly Looney (bass guitar); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Rick Schell (drums); Dub Cornett (percussion). Audio Mixers: Ray Kennedy; Richard Dodd. Recording information: Room & Board, Nashville, TN; Treasure Isle Studios, Nashville, TN. Photographers: Nancy Lee Andrews; Lee Andrews; Ray Kennedy. Unknown Contributor Role: Siobhan Maher. Arranger: Kris Wilkinson String Section. Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Custer (vocals, drums, percussion); Lucinda Williams, The Fairfield Four, Logan (vocals); Kris Wilkerson (conductor, arranger); Richard Bennett (guitar, harmonium, percussion); Ray Kennedy (guitar); Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean (violin); Lee Larrison (viola); Robert Mason (cello); Ken Moore (organ); Kelley Looney, Garry W. Tallent, Roy Huskey, Jr., Ric Kipp (bass); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Rick Schell (drums); Dub Cornett (percussion). Producers: Ray Kennedy, Richard Bennett, Richard Dodd.

Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection album for sale TRAIN A COMIN' was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. When you need a break from THE MOUNTAIN (Earle's 1999 release with the Del McCoury Band), you could flip on his earlier all-acoustic TRAIN A COMIN'. Released in 1995, after the Texas-born songwriter's bout with heroin addiction and jail time, this was Earle's "comeback album." Not only is it an unfiltered pleasure to hear Earle in such pared-down environs, but the band itself is a killer outfit. Peter Rowan, Norman Blake, and the late Roy Huskey don't make "guest appearances" with the band-they are the band. And they're allowed to do what they do best. Blake is even given a solo spot, the guitar instrumental "Northern Winds." Earle draws on material written over the last 20 years, but there's never a sense that he's culling from his notebook material that he was smart enough not to record the first time around. "Tom Ames' Prayer," "Mercenary Song," and "Ben McCullough" are great story songs with at least one leg planted in the 19th Century. "Sometimes She Forgets," "Goodbye," and "Nothin' Without You" are the kind of smart, acrid love songs that will, of course, never show up on the country charts. Recorded at Magic Tracks Recording Studio and Masterfonics, Nashville, Tennessee. Originally released on Winter Harvest Entertainment (3302). Includes liner notes by Steve Earle. Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, 6-string, 12-string & high string guitars, mandolin, harmonica); Peter Rowan (vocals, gut string guitar, mandolin, mandola); Emmylou Harris (vocals); Norman Blake (Hawaiian guitar, guitar, dobro, mandolin, fiddle); Roy Huskey (acoustic bass). Award Winner