Album: Steve Earle, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (New West)
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Earle's voice is as unlovely as ever, but there's feeling in that unloveliness and it is perfectly set off by the semi-electric ensemble which underpins the (increasingly Tom Waitsy) songs. As befits a novelist, the songs are narratives concerned with the big issues. Life, death, that sort of thing. Good record.
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