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Released
  
March 5, 1986

Guitar Town (1986)
  
Exit 0 (1987)

Release date
  
5 March 1986

Length
  
34:35

Artist
  
Steve Earle

Label
  
MCA Records

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Studio
  
Sound Stage Studios and Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee

Genres
  
Country music, Country rock, Rockabilly, Heartland rock

Producers
  
Emory Gordy Jr., Tony Brown, Richard Bennett

Similar
  
Exit 0, I Feel Alright, The Hard Way, Train a Comin', El Corazón

Steve earle guitar town


Guitar Town is the debut album from singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released on March 5, 1986. It topped the Billboard country album charts, and the title song reached #7 on the country singles charts. Earle was also nominated for two 1987 Grammy Awards, Best Male Country Vocalist and Best Country Song, for the title track.

Contents

The album was recorded in late 1985 and early 1986 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Sound Stage Studio. Overdubs were later recorded at Nashville's Emerald Studios. It was one of the first country music albums to be recorded digitally, utilizing the Mitsubishi X-800. Each of the album's ten tracks was either written or co-written by Earle.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 489 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2012, the album ranked at #482 on a revised list. In 2006, it ranked 27th on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music.

The title track was later covered by Emmylou Harris.

Steve earle guitar town


Track listing

All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted

  1. "Guitar Town" – 2:33
  2. "Goodbye's All We've Got Left" – 3:16
  3. "Hillbilly Highway" (Earle, Jimbeau Hinson) – 3:38
  4. "Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)" (Earle, Richard Bennett) – 3:58
  5. "My Old Friend the Blues" – 3:07
  6. "Someday" – 3:46
  7. "Think It Over" (Bennett, Earle) – 2:13
  8. "Fearless Heart" – 4:04
  9. "Little Rock 'n' Roller" – 4:49
  10. "Down the Road" (Tony Brown, Earle, Hinson) – 2:37

Bonus track on 2002 Remastered CD

  1. "State Trooper" [live] (Bruce Springsteen)

Personnel

  • Steve Earle – guitar, vocals
    • The Dukes
  • Bucky Baxter – pedal steel guitar, guitar on "State Trooper"
  • Richard Bennett – guitar, 6-string bass, slap bass, associate producer
  • Ken Moore – organ, synthesizer, keyboards on "State Trooper"
  • Emory Gordy, Jr. – bass, mandolin, producer
  • Harry Stinson – drums, vocals
  • Reno Kling - bass on "State Trooper"
  • Michael McAdam - guitar on "State Trooper"
    • Additional musicians
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar on "Fearless Heart" and "Someday"
  • John Barlow Jarvis – synthesizer, piano
  • Steve Nathan – synthesizer
    • Technical
  • Chuck Ainlay - recording, mixing
  • Alan Messer - photography

    • Songs

    1Guitar Town feat The Dukes2:35
    2Goodbye's All We've Got Left3:24
    3Hillbilly Highway3:38

    References

    Guitar Town Wikipedia
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