Steve Earle, The Mountain - 45m 52s

Tracks & Durations

1. Texas Eagle	3:28
2. Yours Forever Blue	2:30
3. Carrie Brown	4:18
4. I'm Still In Love With You	4:05
5. The Graveyard Shift	2:36
6. Harlan Man	3:20
7. The Mountain	4:43
8. Outlaw's Honeymoon	2:02
9. Connemara Breakdown	2:17
10. Leroy's Dustbowl Blues	3:04
11. Dixieland	2:56
12. Paddy On The Beat	2:00
13. Long, Lonesome, Highway, Blues	2:58
14. Pilgrim	5:27

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Review

When country-rock icon Steve Earle teamed with blazing bluegrass act the Del McCoury Band, the result was more invigoratingly intense than even die-hard fans could have imagined. These energetic songs somehow sound innovative and timeless at the same time, merging the finest, first-person-narrated politico tunes of Springsteen or Dylan with the plaintive, hard-driving mountain wails of the Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe. Whew. --Mike McGonigal Even if it does begin with a jokey incantation of the Mickey Mouse theme song ("M-I-C-K-E-Y..."), The Mountain is Steve Earle's most traditional album, pairing country rock's most notorious miscreant with the best working band in bluegrass. Earle was inspired by a chance meeting with the late bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, and this is his self-declared stab at musical immortality. It is easy to imagine these 14 songs sounding as good 40 years from now as they do today. The mood varies widely from triple-time breakdowns to bluesy shuffles to meditative waltzes, but there's not a missed note or strained chorus anywhere. As Earle states at the outset, "If you want to be in the band, you have to put your hat on," and the one he's wearing, at least figuratively, is 10 gallon-plus. --Keith Moerer

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