Steve And The Dukes Earle - Terraplane - CD

Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica); Eleanor Whitmore (vocals, fiddle); Chris Masterson (guitar); Will Rigby (drums). Audio Mixer: Ray Kennedy . Liner Note Author: Steve Earle. Recording information: House of Blues Studio, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Ted Barron. "Hell, everybody's sick of all my f---ing happy songs anyway," Steve Earle declares in the liner notes to his 2015 album Terraplane as he explains why he chose to cut a blues album. If you feel like you somehow missed Earle's Pollyanna period, you're not the only one, but if he was motivated to turn to the blues because of personal troubles -- he was going through his seventh divorce while he wrote and recorded these songs -- it sure sounds like he chose the right kind of musical therapy. Terraplane is the most relaxed and least fussed-over album Earle has made in quite some time, and frankly, he sounds like he's having a ball on these sessions; with rare exceptions, this isn't music that ponders the d