Early Tracks [Extra tracks]

Steve Earle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B000001SLR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #52 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Singer-Songwriters

Track Listings

1. Nothin' But You

2. If You Need a Fool

3. Continental Trailways Blues

4. Open Up Your Door

5. Breakdown Land

6. Squeeze Me In

7. Annie, Is Tonight the Night

8. My Baby Worships Me

9. Cadillac

10. Devil's Right Hand

11. What'll You Do About Me [*]

12. Cry Myself to Sleep [*]

13. A Little Bit in Love [*]

14. The Crush [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hey say may!!!, August 22, 2003

By 

Mr. Rogers (Toronto, Ont. Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Tracks (Audio CD)

This disk has it's moments. If you look at it from the right perspective. Here's a young Earle finding his place and doing so with some mighty big shadows close by. Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark we're mentors and friends at this point of his career. And if you listen you can hear their influence. But you also have to know that here's a great voice being muted by the Nashville music machine at the same time.
Personally My Baby Worships Me, Open Up Your Door and Breakdown Lane show some great style and potiental. As well there is some amazing humor stuck in there too. If you are a fan give it a listen. Just don't expect it to be I Feel Alright!!!

4.0 out of 5 stars I beg to differ, July 20, 2011

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S. F. Hazell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Tracks (Audio CD)

This collection of songs is straight-ahead rockabilly. Taken as that, and not a comparison point for later Steve Earle, it's an excellent assortment of contemporary rockabilly tunes. Every song is not a classic, but, after hearing the vinyl album over 20 years ago, I can still mentally hear a fair number of the songs because they were that refreshing, distinctive, and enjoyable. I really liked the guitar playing and the pre-Dire Straits not-overly-processed Strat sound. The version of Devil's Right Hand on this recording is superior to any version that followed. Oddly, Steve Earle's southern accent is LESS evident here than on more recent recordings where his twang is almost annoying. Maybe he took diction lessons from Gillian Welch after this album, I don't know. Anyway, if you listen to it for what it is- rockabilly- it's a very enjoyable collection of songs.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Great, March 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Early Tracks (Audio CD)

This compilation, recorded in 1983 at the now-defunct LSI studio in Nashville, was the product of Earle's record deal with CBS. "The Devil's Right Hand" and "A Little Bit In Love" show writing promise, and Earle's impressive, gritty Texas guitar and sparse rockabilly instrumental arrangements (particlarly "Nothin But You") make this piece appealing for Earle die-hards and collectors, but was deemed unfit for country radio and the finished project here was unceremoniously shelved. (Ironically, "A Little Bit In Love" would later surface on Patty Loveless' second MCA CD.) For the most part, however, Earle's singing is not up to par and the few rays of light contained here did not prepare the listener (or Nashville's music heirarchy) for the monolith that was to come.