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Steve Earle, Jerusalem

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1130918

Disk length: 36m 29s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2002

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Ashes To Ashes 4:01
2. Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) 4:19
3. Conspiracy Theory 4:14
4. John Walker's Blues 3:41
5. The Kind 2:04
6. What's A Simple Man To Do? 2:29
7. The Truth 2:21
8. Go Amanda 3:34
9. I Remember You 2:52
10. Shadowland 2:52
11. Jerusalem 3:55

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Review

On 1997's El Corazón, Steve Earle wished for the return of Woody Guthrie to a world sorely lacking voices of righteous dissent. Here, Earle stops pining for ghosts and gruffly makes his own claim to the agit-folk crown. The controversial "John Walker's Blues" drew attention to the album and the ire of many who misunderstood it, but it's only one of many topical tunes on a disc that issues a kind of call to arms: over the distorted guitars and garbage-pail drums of "Amerika v. 6.0" and in the spare and creepy satire "Conspiracy Theory," Earle rallies listeners to resist such corrosive cultural forces as consumerism, xenophobia, and apathy. And as Earle's songs often do, several cuts offer sympathetic portrayals of folks on the margins: a busted Mexican migrant writes a letter home as organ chirps and guitars blaze through "What's a Simple Man to Do?" and in "The Truth," Earle's fuzzed-out drawl depicts life behind bars. Though nearly every moment of this ambitious album is laden with meaning, there's room enough for simple beauty--like the velvet voice of Emmylou Harris on "I Remember You"--and, more importantly, hope. "I believe there'll come a day," Earle affirms in the closing track, "when the lion and the lamb will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem." --Anders Smith LindallJerusalem is Steve Earle's state of the state address - an insightful overview of our turbulent times, in the vein of classic political albums like Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA & Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On. Highlights include, 'Conspiracy Theory', 'Ashes To Ashes', 'John Walker's Blues' & an appearance from Emmylou Harris. 11 tracks. 2002.

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Jerusalem

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 36m 29s

Jerusalem

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 36m 29s

Jerusalem

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 36m 32s (+0m 3s)

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