STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES RETURN WITH GHOSTS OF WEST VIRGINIA MAY 22nd, 2020 VIA NEW WEST RECORDS. Een paar jaar geleden werd Steve Earle benaderd door Jessica Blank en Erik Jensen voor een documentaire waarmee zij naar de theaters wilden. Ghosts of West Virginia is the twentieth studio album by American country musician Steve Earle. Te bestellen bij Bol.com. That hasn't stopped Earle from trying to make music that reaches out to the working-class audience whose stories aren't much heard in the mass media, and with Ghosts of West Virginia, he's created some of the most eloquent music he's written in two decades. anybody else who has it with this pressing? Ghosts of West Virginia is the twentieth studio album by American country musician Steve Earle. The album was produced by Steve Earle and engineered by Ray Kennedy at Jimi Hendrix’s legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Once upon a time, that wasn't an unlikely combination for someone working in folk or country music, yet in an era where "country" is mostly a lifestyle brand and "folk" means just about anyone who plays an acoustic guitar rather than an electric, that makes him somewhat more unusual. It was released on May 22, 2020 under New West Records. Country radio probably doesn't have a place for music this raw and direct in the year 2020. Verschillende nummers klinken in melodieus en tekstueel opzicht als klassieke Amerikaanse folksongs, zoals Woody Guthrie ze … View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Blue & Gold West Virginia Vinyl release of Ghosts Of West Virginia on Discogs. Steve Earle & The Dukes will release Ghosts of West Virginia on May 22nd, 2020 via New West Records. Usually they are average sounding, this sounds really good. This is a good sounding pressing for a New West Records. Op Ghosts Of West Virginia zingt Earle zijn krachtigste werk sinds de vorige keer dat hij zo’n fel statement maakte (het anti-Bush-album The Revolution Starts Now uit 2004). Critical reception. The muscular blend of bluegrass, country, and rock summoned by the Dukes -- guitarist Chris Masterson, pedal steel player Ricky Jay Jackson, fiddler Eleanor Whitmore, bassist Jeff Hill, and drummer Brad Pemberton joining Earle on guitar and banjo -- gives the music vivid, forceful, and unsentimental life. Label: New West Records Datum Release: 22 Mei 2020. Steve Earle is a songwriter with a gift for telling stories with his lyrics, and he's also a leftist populist who likes to sing of the lives and challenges of working people and how they often struggle against an economic system not meant to favor them. Indie "blue and gold" limited edition pressing. That said, that does nothing to change the emotional power and honesty of Earle's songs, and thankfully they can be heard outside of the context of the show on his 2020 album Ghosts of West Virginia, with Earle joined by his road band the Dukes. Steve Earle is a songwriter with a gift for telling stories with his lyrics, and he's also a leftist populist who likes to sing of the lives and challenges of working people and how they often struggle against an economic system not meant to favor them. My copy has extremely disturbing noise on the first two songs. Veteran rock and folk musician Steve Earle released an album in May, Ghosts of West Virginia.The songs were created in conjunction with a stage play … At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82, based on 10 reviews. It was released on May 22, 2020 under New West Records. Steve Earle & the Dukes’ ‘Ghosts of West Virginia’ Offers a Powerful Image of American Tragedy This is the alt-country hero’s most thematically focused work to date Steve Earle And The Dukes Ghosts of West Virginia. Fiddle, Vocals, Arranged By [String Arrangements], Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Vocals, Written-By, Producer, Liner Notes, Public Relations [North American Publicity], Buy Vinyl, Barcode (scanned - on wrapping): 607396540310, Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): NW5397 SIDE A J POWELL, Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): NW5397 SIDE B J POWELL, Barcode (scanned - on album cover): 607396539710. The record doesn't explicitly tell the story of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster; instead, the lives of the men who work the coal mines and the many ways the legacy and dangers of their job define their existence shapes these songs, and the arc of the individual numbers coheres into an effective larger tale. thought it was my equipment but problem don't occur on other records. From the working man's spiritual of "Heaven Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and the holy trinity of "Union, God and Country" to the defiant pride that comes from dangerous work in "Black Lung" and the outrage and betrayal of "It's About Blood," Earle's songs bear the tough ring of truth. [1], Ghosts of West Virginia was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. Given his talents and inclinations, Earle was the ideal choice to write songs for Coal Country, a play written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen about the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, in which 27 West Virginia coal miners lost their lives in 2010. 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There is a certain irony that Earle created a song cycle about the real costs of being a blue-collar worker in America in the 21st century for an off-Broadway play staged by New York's Public Theater, where the majority of people who lead the lives he's singing about will never see it.