Steve Earle Is Chasing Broadway Success -- By Trying to Write a Mainstream Country Song

, his heart-wrenching tribute to his late son, Justin Townes Earle. “I hope I don’t make another one,” Earle says of his tribute albums, each of which have come after the death of a dear friend or family member., which sounds like the most effortless, free-flowing Earle album in years, come to be? According to Earle, there are two reasons, one less poetic than the other.

“I was way closer to Townes and Guy, but I never would have known about them if it weren’t for Jerry Jeff,” Earle says. “The first time I ever heard a Guy Clark song, Jerry Jeff Walker was singing it. It just didn’t make sense for me not to make this record. It just felt like that would be a lack of respect for my elders, and probably my best fucking part of my character is that I do have respect for my elders. Almost everything else is questionable.

He’s been seeing as many plays as he can lately: musicals, dramas, anything. He recently took in a performance ofEarle raves about the Bob Dylan musical, in part because he sees the play as an opening for the type of hit musical he feels poised to write in. “It’s 50-year-old women who buy tickets for musicals,” he claims. “But 50-year-old women now grew up on Bob Dylan, so it’s my time to do this.

Earle mentions another play he plans on attending soon, the latest Broadway adaptation of Paula Vogel’sHe says he was brought to tears when he learned the cast has been walking out to Justin Townes Earle’s “Champagne Corolla,” a song he covered for last year’sEarle’s whole-hearted embrace of theater has the songwriter as happy as ever to be in New York, where he lives with his youngest son, John Henry.

The two of them recently moved from the Village to Battery Park City. After nearly two decades of living in New York, he’s proud to finally own his own apartment, which he bought with money he recently received from selling all histo former Warner CEO Cameron Strang. “I sold everything,” he says. “So I’m starting over, as far as being a songwriter and having royalties and income from copyrights….

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