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| Personnel Steve Earle vocals guitar banjo mandocello mandolin piano Allison Moorer vocals accordion piano harmonium organ Siobhan Kennedy vocals Chris Masterson guitar pedal steel guitar Eleanor Whitmore mandolin fiddle Kelly Looney upright bass electric bass Will Rigby drums percussion Audio Mixer Ray Kennedy Liner Note Author Steve Earle Recording information Ben s Studio And Room And Board Nashville TN Photographer Ted Barron Over the past 27 years Steve Earle s music has journeyed all across the Americana spectrum country rock folk Beatlesque psychedelia topical folk songs etc He s even done a covers record of Townes Van Zandt songs to pay tribute to his late mentor and friend His very best offerings are those he s recorded with his Twang Trust production partner Ray Kennedy They re together here Over 12 songs Earle does what he does best he tells stories that get under the skin and into the bones Backed by the Dukes amp Duchesses his road band the title track s first-person vignette captures the strangeness and contradiction of America from a small vantage point a first-person narrative about traveling His world-weary voice brings the listener into the meld of fiddle strummed acoustic guitars and whining pedal steel and keeps her there seeing it all through his eyes Calico County is a straight-up rocker with whomping electric guitars Fender Rhodes bass and drums Burnin It Down is the other side of the roaming romantic of I Ain t Ever Satisfied defeated angry bewildered about what happened to those dreams and his town Allison Moorer s accordion lends a poignant undercurrent to the guitars After Mardi Gras written for Lucia Micarelli s character in the HBO series Treme is delivered with a gentle swing and a tender violin solo by Eleanor Whitmore This contrasts with the barroom boogie of Pocket Full of Rain driven by Moorer s piano fiddle and a strolling upright bassl |
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