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Steve Earle: Travellin' man. Songs by the New Depression's chronicler

Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, May 2013

THERE'S NO myth quite so enduring in American popular music as a highway — folk, country, pop or rock'n'roll, it runs endlessly through them all, symbolising escape, independence, adventure, growing up, refusing to grow up, getting out, and moving on. Steve Earle, arguably one of the most American of American artists — not to mention one of the few who appears almost equally at home in all the above-mentioned musical genres — has had the highway bug, as he writes in the liner-notes, since he was old enough to stand by the side of a road and stick out his thumb.

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