The Week Of Living Dangerously (1996)

Artist: Steve Earle

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Disc 1
Song Title	Album	Sample	Time
14. The Week Of Living Dangerously	Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection		4:26

(P) 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Release Date: 7/30/1996

Label: Hip-O (PG Admin)

UPC: 00076744000620

Buy.com Sku: 200719216

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel includes: Steve Earle (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, 6-string bass); Bucky Baxter (vocals, acoustic, pedal steel, lap steel, steel & electric guitars, dobro, 6-string bass); Ken Moore (vocals, organ, keyboards, synthesizer); Bill Lloyd (acoustic & 12-string guitars); Richard Bennett (acoustic & electric guitars, guitar, 6-string bass, bass); Stacey Earle Mimms (acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals); Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar); John Jarvis (piano, keyboards); Reno Kling (bass); Custer (drums); Patrick Earle (percussion); The Christ Missionary Baptist Church Choir, Memphis (background vocals); The Dukes, Telluride, The Pogues.
	Producers include: Emory Goody, Jr., Tony Brown, Steve Earle.
	Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.
	Recorded between 1985 and 1991. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.
	Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios, North Hollywood, California).
	A definitive two-CD best-of covering Earle's work for MCA, with tracks from all his pre-drug bust albums in more or less chronological order from the 1987 GUITAR TOWN (when he was being marketed as a country artist) to the gonzo 1991 live SHUT UP AND DIE LIKE AN AVIATOR (where the grunge guitars made it clear that he wasn't). Comparisons to Springsteen and Mellencamp are accurate up to a point (as is the "Keith Richards of country" tag) but listening to this collection makes it clear that Earle's always been his own man. High points here include the superb anti-gun anthem "The Devil's Right Hand," an idiomatic live cover of Doug Sahm's "She's About a Mover," the angst-ridden "I Ain't Ever Satisfied," the Reagan-era protest "Good Ol' Boy (Getting Tough)," and a concert version of "Dead Flowers" that out-Stones the Stones, but there isn't a note here that isn't as real as it gets.

Artist Overview

Steve Earle did for country in the 1980s what Waylon Jennings did for it in the '70s--released it from the shackles of commerciality and overproduction by introducing a bad-ass, rock-friendly outlaw aesthetic. Besides his talents as a singer/songwriter, Earle is a producer/entrepeneur who's worked with many other artists (some on his own label) and helped foster a new wave of progressive country. He's also a dedicated political activist who's done much for a variety of progressive causes.

Artist Influences
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
David Allan Coe
David Olney
Guy Clark
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Joe Ely
John Prine
Merle Haggard
Neil Young
The Pogues
The Rolling Stones
Townes Van Zandt
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson

Artist Contemporaries
Buddy Miller
Dave Alvin
Dwight Yoakam
Jason & The Scorchers
Joe Henry
Lucinda Williams
Lyle Lovett
Rank & File
The Beat Farmers
The Knitters
The Long Ryders
The Mavericks
The Morells
Uncle Tupelo

Artist Followers
BR5-49
Charlie Robison
Cheri Knight
Chris Knight
Five Chinese Brothers
Hadacol
Jack Ingram
Old 97's
Robbie Fulks
The Backsliders
The Jayhawks
Whiskeytown
Wilco

Technical Info


	Release Date : 07/30/1996
	Original Release Date : 1996
	Catalog ID : 40006
	Label : Hip-O Records
	Number of Discs : 2
	Studio/Live : Mixed
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00076744000620

Professional Reviews

Q (10/96, p.175)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Suggests that his best days may be just arriving....[Earle is] apt to come on too loud, too abrasive, too rock'n'roll for Nashville....All those...hits are here...each as high, wide and handsome as the day they were coined."

Mojo (Publisher)
(6/00, p.43)
- "...Brilliantly compiled...pulling together all of the high points of Earle's tenure at MCA, alongside live covers from the likes of Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones..."

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