IF YOU GO* What: Steve Earle with The Mastersons* When: 8 p.m. today, Oct. 24* Where: Track 29, 1400 Market St.* Admission: $30* Phone: 423-521-2929* Website: www.track29.co
Steve Earle loves life on the road as a musician. He enjoys seeing new places, the camaraderie with the band, the actual gig, but he also very much enjoys meeting new people. It was in those encounters with fans along the way that he found inspiration for his latest CD, “The Low Highway.”
It’s a collection of songs that he describes as very Woody Guthrie-esque for its insight into the current state of everyday America. Earle, who appears tonight, Oct. 24, at Track 29, said one of his favorite albums is The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and he has always believed albums should carry some sort of cohesion throughout like that groundbreaking work did.
“It was the first album I ever bought, so I am very much invested in the album as a whole,” he said from San Antonio, Texas. I’ve written one-offs for projects like movies and TV because I can, but I usually know exactly what a record is about when I start making it.”
With “The Low Highway,” his 15th CD, he knew he would be singing about what he saw while on the road.