Steve Earle - Copperhead Road [Deluxe 2xCD]

Brazenly explosive and hard-rocking, Copperhead Road was not the work of an artist who would be - or would want to be - embraced by the Grand Ole Opry. It also marked the commercial pinnacle of Steve Earle's career's tumultuous first chapter.

The album won widespread mainstream critical acclaim and substantial rock radio airplay, and became Earle's second gold release. The set broadened his fan base in a way many in Music City had not foreseen. It must have been a satisfying moment for country's most persistent anti-authoritarian: He had proved Nashville wrong.

This expanded Deluxe Edition offers a deep look at Earle on stage in the months surrounding the recording and release of Copperhead Road. A November 1987 performance by the Exit 0 band includes early renditions of The Devil's Right Hand and Johnny Come Lately, plus three numbers dating back to his Epic sessions and covers of songs by his Nashville compadre Rodney Crowell and early influence Gram Parsons.

Springsteen receives homage in a 1988 solo version of his brooding Nebraska. Finally, five songs from an April 1989 Canadian date reveals the stops-out potency of the Copperhead Road-era Dukes on the road.

Disc 1

• Copperhead Road
• Snake Oil
• Back To The Wall
• The Devil's Right Hand
• Johnny Come Lately
• Even When I'm Blue
• You Belong To Me
• Waiting On You
• Once You Love
• Nothing But A Child

Disc 2

• The Devil's Right Hand
• Fearless Heart
• San Antonio Girl
• Nobody But You/Continental Trailways Blues
• My Baby Worships Me
• Wheels
• The Week Of Living Dangerously
• Johnny Come Lately
• Brown And Root
• I Love You Too Much
• It's All Up To You
• Nebraska
• Copperhead Road
• I Ain't Ever Satisfied
• Dead Flowers
• Little Sister
• Guitar Town