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As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

~Steve Earle

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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

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In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

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I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

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You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 17th, 1955

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