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* AmbiguousSyntax: The first verse of "Copperhead Road" doesn't make it clear whether it's the revenue man or John's granddad that never came back from Copperhead Road.
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955 in Fort Monroe, Virginia) is an {{OutlawCountry|Music}}[=/=]AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas and Tennessee (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955 in Fort Monroe, Virginia) UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}) is an {{OutlawCountry|Music}}[=/=]AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} and Tennessee UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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* RecoveredAddict: Both Steve in real life, as well as his character Walon in ''Series/TheWire''.
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* HellHasNewManagement: "The Unrepentant" ends like this.
-->''Now he's standin' at Hell's door \\
With a bad attitude and a .44\\
The devil said, "What's up man, now what you come here for?"\\
He said, "Man, let's just get to it"\\
He said, "I always heard that you were the bad one\\
There's a few places I ain't been, a few things I ain't done\\
You got your pitchfork and I got my gun..."''
-->''Now he's standin' at Hell's door \\
With a bad attitude and a .44\\
The devil said, "What's up man, now what you come here for?"\\
He said, "Man, let's just get to it"\\
He said, "I always heard that you were the bad one\\
There's a few places I ain't been, a few things I ain't done\\
You got your pitchfork and I got my gun..."''
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955 in Fort Monroe, Virginia) is an AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas and Tennessee (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955 in Fort Monroe, Virginia) is an AlternativeCountry {{OutlawCountry|Music}}[=/=]AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas and Tennessee (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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Earle's music tends to draw on a lot of different influences, including country, rock'n'roll, folk music, punk, and even hip-hop. In the 1980s, Earle's music gained considerable popularity with alternative, folk and punk fans, and he is considered to be extremely influential on the development of the AlternativeCountry genre. A self-described socialist, Earle is very politically active in left-wing causes, which often [[ProtestSong shows up in his lyrics]].
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Earle's music tends to draw on a lot of different influences, including country, rock'n'roll, folk music, punk, {{country|Music}}, RockAndRoll, {{folk music}}, UsefulNotes/{{punk}}, and even hip-hop.HipHop. In the 1980s, Earle's music gained considerable popularity with alternative, folk and punk fans, and he is considered to be extremely influential on the development of the AlternativeCountry genre. A self-described socialist, Earle is very politically active in left-wing causes, which often [[ProtestSong shows up in his lyrics]].
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* ''Ghosts of West Virginia'' (2020)
* ''J.T.'' (2021)
* ''J.T.'' (2021)
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son Justin died in August 2020.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son Justin died in August 2020. He actually recorded a tribute album named ''J.T.'' in his son's memory.
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Earle's music tends to draw on a lot of different influences, including country, rock'n'roll, folk music, punk, and even hip-hop. In the 1980s, Earle's music gained considerable popularity with alternative, folk and punk fans, and he is considered to be extremely influential on the development of the AlternativeCountry genre. He is very politically active on the left-ish side, which often [[ProtestSong shows up in his lyrics]].
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Earle's music tends to draw on a lot of different influences, including country, rock'n'roll, folk music, punk, and even hip-hop. In the 1980s, Earle's music gained considerable popularity with alternative, folk and punk fans, and he is considered to be extremely influential on the development of the AlternativeCountry genre. He A self-described socialist, Earle is very politically active on the left-ish side, in left-wing causes, which often [[ProtestSong shows up in his lyrics]].
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* AscendedFanboy: As a teenager, he spent a lot of time trying to become Music/TownesVanZandt. He had to settle for becoming a friend of Townes (and naming his son after him).
-->"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Music/BobDylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
** To which Townes himself [[DeadpanSnarker replied]] "I've met Dylan's body guards, and I wouldn't recommend it."
-->"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Music/BobDylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
** To which Townes himself [[DeadpanSnarker replied]] "I've met Dylan's body guards, and I wouldn't recommend it."
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** To which Townes himself replied "I've met Dylan's body guards, and I wouldn't recommend it."
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** To which Townes himself replied [[DeadpanSnarker replied]] "I've met Dylan's body guards, and I wouldn't recommend it."
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Father of Music/JustinTownesEarle.
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Father of the late Music/JustinTownesEarle.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son Justin died in August 2020.
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* MistakenIdentity: The narrator of "Taneytown" is a young black man who is accosted by a group of racists and barely escapes by slashing one of them with his pocketknife. He throws the knife away while running back to his house, another black boy picks it up, and is later lynched when the men see him with it, despite protesting he didn't hurt anyone.
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* ReligionRantSong: "Tom Ames' Prayer" is about a bank robber who finds himself "trapped in an alley in Abilene with all but four shells spent" and [[PrayerIsALastResort turns to God for the first time in his life]]... only to wind up bragging at length about that time he saved himself from hanging and concluding:
-->"Yeah, but who the hell am I talkin' to, there ain't no one here but me."
-->And then he [[DramaticGunCock cocked both his pistols]] and he [[SpitefulSpit spit in the dirt]] and he [[BolivianArmyEnding walked out in the street]].
-->"Yeah, but who the hell am I talkin' to, there ain't no one here but me."
-->And then he [[DramaticGunCock cocked both his pistols]] and he [[SpitefulSpit spit in the dirt]] and he [[BolivianArmyEnding walked out in the street]].
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* RealSongThemeTune: His CoverVersion of Music/TomWaits' "Way Down In The Hole" is used for the fifth season of ''Series/TheWire''; Earle had a recurring role that season as Walon, Bubbles' Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. (Earle had appeared as Walon a few times in Season 1 and once in Season 4, but he wasn't nearly as prominent as in Season 5, which is when Bubbles gets serious about recovery.)
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* RealSongThemeTune: At least 2 of Earles' recordings have ended up as television music.
** His CoverVersion of Music/TomWaits' "Way Down In The Hole" is used for the fifth season of ''Series/TheWire''; Earle had a recurring role that season as Walon, Bubbles' Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. (Earle had appeared as Walon a few times in Season 1 and once in Season 4, but he wasn't nearly as prominent as in Season 5, which is when Bubbles gets serious about recovery.)) "Copperhead Road" was featured on the Discovery Channel's docudrama: "Moonshiners".
** His CoverVersion of Music/TomWaits' "Way Down In The Hole" is used for the fifth season of ''Series/TheWire''; Earle had a recurring role that season as Walon, Bubbles' Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. (Earle had appeared as Walon a few times in Season 1 and once in Season 4, but he wasn't nearly as prominent as in Season 5, which is when Bubbles gets serious about recovery.
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas and Tennessee (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) 1955 in Fort Monroe, Virginia) is an AlternativeCountry singer/songwriter, actor, and author. After about 10 years of hanging around his favorite musicians in Texas and Tennessee (he turns up in the 1975 documentary ''Heartworn Highways''), he finally got his breakthrough in 1986 with the album ''Guitar Town'' and became something of a country rock star.
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!!Discography
* ''Guitar Town'' (1986)
* ''Exit 0'' (1987, with The Dukes)
* ''Copperhead Road'' (1988)
* ''The Hard Way'' (1990)
* ''Train a Comin''' (1995)
* ''I Feel Alright'' (1996)
* ''El Corazón'' (1997)
* ''The Mountain'' (1999, with the Del [=McCoury=] Band)
* ''Transcendental Blues'' (2000)
* ''Jerusalem'' (2002)
* ''The Revolution Starts Now'' (2004)
* ''Washington Square Serenade'' (2007)
* ''Townes'' (2009)
* ''I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive'' (2011)
* ''The Low Highway'' (2013)
* ''Terraplane'' (2015)
* ''Colvin & Earle'' (2016, with Shawn Colvin)
* ''So You Wanna Be an Outlaw'' (2017)
* ''Guy'' (2019)
* ''Guitar Town'' (1986)
* ''Exit 0'' (1987, with The Dukes)
* ''Copperhead Road'' (1988)
* ''The Hard Way'' (1990)
* ''Train a Comin''' (1995)
* ''I Feel Alright'' (1996)
* ''El Corazón'' (1997)
* ''The Mountain'' (1999, with the Del [=McCoury=] Band)
* ''Transcendental Blues'' (2000)
* ''Jerusalem'' (2002)
* ''The Revolution Starts Now'' (2004)
* ''Washington Square Serenade'' (2007)
* ''Townes'' (2009)
* ''I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive'' (2011)
* ''The Low Highway'' (2013)
* ''Terraplane'' (2015)
* ''Colvin & Earle'' (2016, with Shawn Colvin)
* ''So You Wanna Be an Outlaw'' (2017)
* ''Guy'' (2019)
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* AlternativeCountry: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]].
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* AlternativeCountry: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]]. Earle made his name by playing to both country and alt-rock audiences, including a stint opening for Music/TheReplacements in the 1980s.
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- bit more on his influence and crossover appeal in the lede
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Earle's music tends to draw on a lot of different influences, including country, rock'n'roll, folk music, punk, and even hip-hop. In the 1980s, Earle's music gained considerable popularity with alternative, folk and punk fans, and he is considered to be extremely influential on the development of the AlternativeCountry genre. He is very politically active on the left-ish side, which often [[ProtestSong shows up in his lyrics]].
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* DramaticDrop: From "Devil's Right Hand":
-->''So I asked if I could have one someday when I grew up\\
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up''
-->''So I asked if I could have one someday when I grew up\\
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up''
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* CompanyTown: One of these is mentioned as the location of a car game in "Devils Right Hand".
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* CompanyTown: One of these is mentioned as the location of a car card game in "Devils Right Hand".
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