I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
Steve Earle
2011
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive is a Folk album by Steve Earle, originally released in 2011. On Gatefold: 11 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Folk
- Singer-Songwriter
- warm
- wistful
- pastoral
About
According to Steve Earle's liner notes for I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, these 11 songs are all "about mortality in one way or another." Certainly the title -- after a song by Hank Williams (also the title of Earle's new novel) -- reflects this, but these songs bear that out in spades. Two of them, "God Is God" and "I Am a Wanderer," were written for Joan Baez and appeared on her Day After Tomorrow album. Earle's versions are less stylized, more worldweary, ragged, and poignant. The former is a sobering anthem which states plainly that human .
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Tracklist
- 1Waitin' on the Sky3:28
- 2Little Emperor2:58
- 3The Gulf of Mexico4:15
- 4Molly-O3:20
- 5God Is God3:59
- 6Meet Me in the Alleyway4:25
- 7Every Part of Me2:51
- 8Lonely Are the Free3:23
- 9Heaven or Hell3:26
- 10I Am a Wanderer2:53
- 11This City2:44
Credits
Performers
- Dennis CrouchACOUSTIC BASS
- Roland GuerinACOUSTIC BASS
- Steve EarleACOUSTIC GUITAR BANJO HARMONICA
- Jay BelleroseDRUMS
- Jackson SmithELECTRIC GUITAR
- T-Bone BurnettELECTRIC GUITAR VOCALS
- Sara WatkinsFIDDLE VOCALS
- Greg LeiszSTEEL GUITAR PEDAL STEEL GUITAR
- "Big" Sam WilliamsTROMBONE
- Jon GrossTUBA
- Allison MoorerVOCALS FEATURING
- Tim RobbinsVOCALS
- Allen ToussaintARRANGED BY CONDUCTOR HORNS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 11 pressings tracked on Gatefold