Some artists cannot be lumped into a category. We like to find the right box to file everything into including entertainers. They have to be country or pop or rock or folk and there are some that are just unique and don't really fit into any package. Steve Earle is one of those artists. He is an artists artist.

Even to people who didn’t like country, there were certain albums that caught their ear and brought them in. Dwight Yoakam did that in the 80’s and so did Steve Earle in 1985 with his killer album 'Guitar Town' which he recorded on this date 31 years ago today.

Steve quickly became one of my favorites when I first heard the title cut ‘Guitar Town’ and then discovered the rest of this killer album. Steve helped me rediscover my love of country with this record. He then blew me away a couple years later with ‘Copperhead Road’.

Here is a couple cuts from that epic album as well as a trip down Copperhead Road. Buckle up! It’s time machine time.

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