Transcendental Blues is the ninth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 2000. The album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Read more on Last.fm.
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Transcendental Blues is the ninth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 2000. The album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Read more on Last.fm.
Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle on January 17, 1955 in San Antonio, Texas) is a singer-songwriter best known for his country music and rock 'n roll tinged "alt-country." He is also a published writer, a keen political activist (particularly in protesting against the death penalty in the U.S., as in his song "Ellis Unit One" from the movie Dead Man Walking), and has written and directed a play. Earle also had small roles on the HBO television shows "The Wire" and "Treme". Read more on Last.fm
Steve Earle records are typically a combination of jaded, divorce influenced rants on the dregs of love chased by leftist protest music. Transcendental Blues, however, is a transition record, where Steve’s focus is more on the idea of one’s struggle to exist. These songs are pointed questions about mortality, about sex and faith and anger. They stand alone as mini-sermons, each with some kernel of depth perception. Musically, its all acoustic lead bar band alt country…and good acoustic lead bar band alt country at that. There you go.