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  The Replacements' Reunion Has Already Raised Thousands for Ailing Slim Dunlap

  March 5, 2013 – The Replacements' Songs for Slim reunion EP comes out digitally today (March 5), just as organizers behind the monthly "Songs for Slim" split seven-inch series have declared the project's second auction "an overwhelming success."Following the January auction of the 'Mats five-track covers EP — featuring four songs by Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson, plus one extra from drummer Chris Mars — the charity effort to raise mo …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Steve Earle, Will Sheff Unplugged

  May 31, 2011 – While iconic singer-songwriter Steve Earle and heady Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff have a Texas background in common, we brought them together in NYC because of their shared catalog of innately compelling music, their reverence for music history, and their dedication to their craft. We caught part of their joint interview on camera, plus two solo acoustic performance from each artist. …
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  Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle

  May 17, 2011 – The Okkervil River leader and the outlaw country legend trade notes on tradition, storytelling, and just plain pissing people off. Steve Earle -- country rebel, playwright, actor, and now novelist -- fishes an iPhone from his weathered denim jacket, eager to show Will Sheff a video of his one-year-old son, John Henry, bopping his head to "The Valley," the opening track from I Am Very Far, the artfully raw sixth album from Sheff's band  …
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  Steve Earle, 'I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive' (New West)

  April 26, 2011 – Like his idol Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle has made bemused fatalism his milieu. But Earle's first original set in four years is still a landmark of grimness - even his devotional songs invoke mortality ("I can't promise anything / Except that my last breath will bear your name"). T-Bone Burnett's understated production suggests an aqueous atmosphere, with a few actual sea shanties. …
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  New Albums from Steve Earle, An Horse + 11 More

  April 25, 2011 – Here's our take on the best and worst albums available online and in record stores Tuesday, April 26: Steve Earle, I'll Never Get Out of This World AliveSo lonesome he could die, forever and ever, amen.Read Review Explosions in the Sky, Take Care. Take Care. …
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