Singer-Songwriter Steve Earle Talks Divorce (for the Seventh Time), Fatherhood & Taylor Swift's Talent — billboard.com

The title of Steve Earle's 16th studio album Terraplane is a nod to Delta blues legend Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues," but the similarities end there. Recorded with his crack band the Dukes, the album -- which debuted at No. 39 on the March 7 Billboard 200 -- evokes the crunchy electric Texas blues-rock of ZZ Top and the fire of Chicago blues icon Howlin' Wolf and resonates with the 60-year-old Earle's literary, world-weary lyrics. ("King of the Blues" may be the first song of its genre to use the word "Dickensian" in a lyric.)

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