Steve Earle & The Dukes Releasing New Album ‘Terraplane’

Steve Earle & The Dukes are set to release the new album Terraplane on February 17th via New West Records.  The 11-track set is the follow up to the 2013 album The Low Highway and features Earle’s longtime band The Dukes, comprised of Kelly Looney, Will Rigby, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. The album was produced by R.S. Field (Buddy Guy, John Mayall), engineered by Earle’s longtime production partner Ray Kennedy and recorded at House of Blues Studio D in Nashville, TN. Terraplane will be available as a single compact disc, deluxe CD/DVD, digitally, as well as 180g vinyl. The deluxe version of the album will include 24-bit high-res audio of the album as well as a long-form interview between Earle and acclaimed journalist Mark Jacobson, three live, acoustic songs filmed on the porch of House of Blues Studio D, and a behind-the-scenes short film about the making of the album.

Terraplane takes its title from the 1930s Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit model, which also inspired the Robert Johnson song “Terraplane Blues.”  It is Earle’s 16th studio album since the release of his highly influential 1986 debut Guitar Town. As its title suggests, the album is very much a blues record, a third of which was written while Earle toured Europe alone for five weeks with just a guitar, a mandolin and a backpack. Earle, who was raised outside of San Antonio before migrating to Houston, offers about Texas blues, “There was Fort Worth where the model was Freddy King, and there was the Houston scene which was dominated by Lightnin’ Hopkins. Two very different styles.” He saw both of these giants, and was also exposed to Johnny Winter, Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Billy Gibbons, all of which make their influence heard here within Earle’s masterful storytelling.

Earle states in the Terraplane album liner notes, “…the blues are anything but superficial.  In fact, they run so deep and dark and close to the bone that folks walk around everyday with the blues as though it were perfectly natural for a human being to go on living with a broken heart (apologies to Tony Kushner).” He continues, “For my part, I’ve only ever believed two things about the blues: one, that they are very democratic, the commonest of human experience, perhaps the only thing that we all truly share and two, that one day, when it was time, I would make this record.”

Earle has also announced four residency performances at the City Winery in NYC during January. Please see the dates below.

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane Track Listing:

1. Baby Baby Baby (Baby)

2. You’re The Best Lover That I Ever Had

3. The Tennessee Kid

4. Ain’t Nobody’s Daddy Now

5. Better Off Alone

6. The Usual Time

7. Go Go Boots Are Back

8. Acquainted With The Wind

9. Baby’s Just As Mean As Me

10. Gamblin’ Blues

11. King Of The Blues

 

STEVE EARLE ON TOUR

January 5 – New York, NY @ City Winery *

January 12 – New York, NY @ City Winery +

January 19 – New York, NY @ City Winery

January 26 – New York, NY @ City Winery

 

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