Steve Earle: Album By Album

PLAYWRIGHT, NOVELIST, activist, actor... when Steve Earle has found a moment over the past couple of decades, he has also managed to string together a superb, genre-confounding series of albums. He's embraced rebel country, rockabilly protest folk, orthodox bluegrass and blues, and, on his startling latest, Washington Square Serenade, sets all of the above to modern beats. It's a CV that looks even more impressive when you consider the proportion of the early '90s he spent stoned, imprisoned or in rehab. Today, sporting a hefty beard, he's in fine form, and as unstoppably garrulous as ever...