![]() There’s probably some people that could do it if they let themselves do it, but I’m very thankful that I can go out with one guitar and make a living if I need to.”Īnd that’s all it is – is just you two and two guitars, not other players? She’s really good – a really great guitar player and a really good solo performer. Part of the connection that we have comes from going out there with one guitar and playing – the fact that we both can do that. That was just as her first record was coming out, and in between my first and second record. We played a benefit in Boston and then just within a week or two after that we played this show together at The Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass. And we met -we did a couple of gigs together really close together. It was the only thing I knew how to do, ‘cause I’d been a solo artist for years, and Shawn had done a lot of that, too. ![]() “I started doing that, and also, it became part of my process for writing songs for the next record. Well, you get exactly the same amount of money solo as you do with the band. ![]() ‘Cause you get roughly the same amount of money to play solo as you do with a band. One thing, I make more money – I can, kind of, save up some money. Shawn and I met when I first – after ‘Guitar Town’ came out, I started pretty early on doing solo tours in between my band tours. I’m in between record cycles and I do all kinds of stuff in between record cycles. This summer I’m doing dates with Colvin, I’m doing solo shows, I’m doing dates with The Dukes, and I’m doing dates with the Bluegrass Dukes. We’ve both been doing this awhile, so it’s ways top keep it interesting for audiences. We have a lot of audience in common, but … And doing half the amount of work for the same amount of money, so there’s that factor. ![]() It’s going out and trying to reach people in each others’ audience that we wouldn’t normally reach – getting our audiences together in one place. “So, you know, it’s whitewashing the fence. And we have other friends that do stuff, and Shawn’s part of the trio thing she did with Emmy and Patty Griffin – the three-girls-and-their-buddy thing. It was, like, somebody either in my camp or her camp. I think it was maybe suggested by somebody else, but I can’t even remember who it was, and we talked about it for a while. So tell me how the pairing came together. That’s just … she’s pretty famous for that.” “But it’s gonna be a guitar-pool thing, where both of us will go out and do the set together, and it’ll be my stuff, her stuff and, knowing her, probably some covers that nobody expects. We’ve known each other for a long time – we’re kind of the same graduating class. We have no idea what’s going to happen, ‘cause we’ve never done this before. We’re going to do … we don’t know what’s going to happen. “It’s the two of us on stage the whole time. Patrick’s Day to rehearse, and the tour starts the next day there.”ĭo you have any idea what the show’s going to be like? Are you going to be singing together? Are you going to be doing each others’ songs? Shawn and I are meeting up in Pittsburgh on St. I’m working on a book, so I’m trying to bang out my 500 words a day whenever I can.” In a telephone interview this week from New York City, where he lives, Earle says he expects the pair will play his songs, such the 1988 Top 10 hit “Copperhead Road” and Colvin’s chart-topping 1997 song “Sunny Came Home,” as well as some surprise covers.Įarle also spoke about all the projects he’s been doing lately, as well as his past and future. The pair starts a tour March 18 in Pittsburgh that comes to Musikfest Cafe in Bethlehem on March 19 and Keswick Theatre in Glenside March 29. Now he’s reinventing himself as one half of an acoustic guitar duo with Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. Or maybe a workaholic.Īfter nearly a year of touring with a band for his acclaimed, successful album “The Low Highway,” Earle now is working on his third book, just finished a movie and wrapped up his role on a hit HBO TV series. Steve Earle is something of a Renaissance man.
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