“You could tell how quickly Steve Earle was trying to tear through the first half of his solo-acoustic set Thursday night at the Dakota by how short his comments were between the tunes.
“This song goes out to what’s-her-name, wherever the hell she is,” was all he said before “Now She’s Gone.”
“Same girl, different harmonica,” he then offered before the next song, “Goodbye.”
And after his show-opener cover of the Pogues’ “Fall From the Grace of God,” he said of the band’s leader Shane MacGowan, “He’s one of the best songwriters ever, but nobody can understand it when he sang it.” Then to introduce his second number, “Devil’s Right Hand” (one he usually has a lot to say about) he simply said, “Now if I could get more people to understand this song.”
Returning to the Dakota for the second summer in a row — he later explained that he now mostly only tours around the school schedule of his grandson, John Henry, son of his late son Justin Townes Earle — the 68-year-old Texas songwriting hero blazed through a dozen songs in under an hour to start his first of two nights at Minneapolis’ jazz-club-turned-songwriter’s-haven. (Friday’s show was a hair away from being sold-out at press time.)”
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By Chris Riemenschneider Star Tribune
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Steve Earle – Alone Again Tour (Night 2)
w/ special guest Zandi Holup
AUG 11 • 7PM
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