![]() ![]() "That song makes that particular part of my life sound a lot more fun that it really was," he bleakly added. After "South Nashville Blues," which chronicles his decline into drug addiction and eventually jail time in the early '90s, he talked about nearing the 29-year mark of going sober. The second half of Thursday's set, however, saw Earle slow down and open up more. Others included "My Old Friend the Blues," "Someday," "Guitar Town," "I Ain't Ever Satisfied," "Taneytown" and "Sparkle and Shine." ![]() You could base a yearlong songwriting class on - and glean dozens of hard-learned life's lessons from - the tunes played in the first half. ( Friday's show was a hair away from being sold-out at press time.) ![]() Returning to the Dakota for the second summer in a row - he later explained that he now mostly only tours around the school schedule of his youngest son, John Henry - the 68-year-old Texas songwriting hero blazed through a dozen songs in under an hour to start his first of two nights at Minneapolis' jazz-club-turned-songwriter's-haven. "Same girl, different harmonica," he then offered before the next song, "Goodbye."Īnd after his show-opener cover of the Pogues' "If I Should Fall From the Grace of God," he said of the band's leader Shane MacGowan, "He's one of the best songwriters ever, but nobody can understand it when he sang it." Then to introduce his second number, "Devil's Right Hand" (one he usually has a lot to say about) he simply said, "Now if I could get more people to understand this song." "This song goes out to what's-her-name, wherever the hell she is," was all he said before "Now She's Gone." You could tell how quickly Steve Earle was trying to tear through the first half of his solo-acoustic set Thursday night at the Dakota by how short his comments were between the tunes. ![]()
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