Steve Earle & the Dukes’ ‘Ghosts of West Virginia’ offers a powerful image of American tragedy. Read our review
has released an album every two or so years since getting sober in the mid-Nineties. That’s inevitably led to a mixed bag of results, from the inspired to the less compelling , is likely the most tightly focused and thematically driven collection of the songwriter’s career.
Earle handles the material with sensitivity and emotional dexterity, alternating between heartfelt mourning, righteous anger, and pious pride. On “Union God and Country,” he manages to weave the history of leftist Appalachian labor in a simple two-and-a-half-minute first-person narrative.is that he wanted to try to bridge a political divide in making an album that spoke to people who vote differently than he does. If anything, Earle serves here as a trusted travel guide, offering a nuanced portrayal of a time and place that likely feels a world away for the majority of his listeners.
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