Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade

Pressed on colored vinyl for the first time!

Metalic gold vinyl, limited to 3,500 copies

50th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
Washington Square Serenade
Steve Earle

"The city hasn't changed as much as real estate agents would have you believe," Steve Earle explains about his adopted hometown of New York City. "Specifically, my neighborhood hasn't changed that much. I point people in the right direction so that they can take their picture like the cover of Freewheelin' all the time."

That's easy enough for Earle these days, because he and his wife, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, now live on the very Greenwich Village street on which the famous cover shot for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962) was taken. In that photo, Dylan and his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo huddle against the cold as they walk along a snowy New York street. It's an indelible romantic image that captures the idealism of the folk revival that was gathering momentum in New York at the time.

Steve Earle's gripping new album, Washington Square Serenade, is a loving tribute to that era, that movement, that music and the city that gave them all a nurturing home. "That period changed pop music," Earle says. "It made lyrics much more important."

Side A

1. Tennessee Blues

2. Down Here Below

3. City Of Immigrants (with Forro In The Dark)

4. Sparkle And Shine

5. Come Home To Me

Side B

1. Jericho Road

2. Oxycontin Blues

3. Red Is The Color

4. Steve's Hammer (For Pete)

5. Days Aren't Long Enough (with Allison Moorer)

6. Way Down In The Hole

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