Far be in for me to order Steve Earle around but, isn't 57 a little early to be writing his memoirs. I mean, sure he sounded half dead at the Town Hall last year but HE ISN'T HALF DEAD… and so why put a full stop on his career story as implied in a memoir.
Plus, Earle is hardly a shrinking violet, what's the point in putting in stone all the stories we've heard over and over again in concert? I know some people who know Earle and tell me he is something of a personality and a loudmouth in person. I think the word is gregarious. Me? I think he is yet another person who lost track of what his true gift was: county rock.
I haven't read last years novel or any of his short stories so I certainly won't state that they suck. I'll just assume it without any proof. What I will say is you only live once and lif is way too short to waste it writing shitty protest songs and long, boring concerts which fail to get to the point.
ANyway, while claiming to have promised to never write a memoir, music.ca gave Earle an offer he couldn't refuse… money.
PS I know this is a great song, it is an exception: