Steve Earle's new album gets date

It’s been announced that Steve Earle’s new album “So You Wannabe an Outlaw” will drop on 16th June and will also feature country superstars, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson and Texas born Johnny Bush. Earle, who grew up in Texas was quoted saying in a recent CMT interview:

“There’s nothing ‘retro’ about this record,” Earle said. “I’m just acknowledging where I’m coming from. … Look, I’m always gonna be a Texan, no matter what I do. And I’m always going to be somebody who learned their craft in Nashville. It’s who I am.”

The album is a nod towards the Outlaw Country movement and is dedicated to Waylon Jennings who led the way with this sub-genre along with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glasar and Others. Of course, Steve Earle is no stranger to the scene either having been part of the supergroup “The Highway Men” made up of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

Earle then went on to say “I was out to unapologetically ‘channel’ Waylon as best as I could. This record was all about me playing on the back pick-up of a ’66 Fender Telecaster on an entire record for the first time in my life. The vocal part of it is a little different. I certainly don’t sound like Waylon Jennings.

Willie Nelson teams up with Earle on the title track, with Miranda Lambert featuring on “This is How It Ends”. Johnny Bush, who wrote one of Willie Nelson’s best known songs “Whiskey River” features on “Walkin’ in L.A.”.

The deluxe version of the album also features Earle covering four other tracks including Jennings’ Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” Nelson’s “The Local Memory” and Billy Joe Shaver’s “Ain’t No God in Mexico.”

One of Steve Earle’s best known songs of course is the iconic “Galway Girl”. Written by Earle and recorded with Co. Clare native Sharon Shannon. The song was released in 2000 and later covered by Irish artist “Mundy” in 2008 when it reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart in April of that year and remained there for five weeks.4 It was the biggest-selling download in Ireland in 2008, and was a winning nominee at the 2008 Meteor Awards