American troubadour talks to The Globe and Mail about the trouble with the music industry, freedoms of speech and Jason Aldean
“I’m at the point in my life where I’m trying really, really, really hard to impress upon people, especially in America, that we’re in the trouble we’re in because we don’t listen,” Steve Earle says, on a Zoom call from the road. And when the hardcore American troubadour and outlaw country icon suggests you listen, you better be all ears.
Earle plays Toronto’s Massey Hall on Aug. 24, his lone Canadian date. He spoke to The Globe and Mail about controversial country singer Jason Aldean, freedom of speech and the trouble with the music industry.It’s physically way harder. It always has been, but I didn’t start realizing it was harder until I was older.Try That In A Small TownI haven’t heard it. So, it’s not appropriate for me to comment on it. I didn’t listen to country radio when I was on it.
We’d be back to kind of where we were in the 1970s and 80s. There was real money in this for a long time. But I’m not sure artists take enough responsibility, and the business takes enough responsibility, for what happened in the record business. People want to blame it on downloading. I think it was because of bad songs too.Yeah. A lot of us grew up listening to great singer-songwriters. Songwriting, the lyrical content, was what elevated rock ‘n’ roll to an art form in the first place.
As someone who has appeared in a few films, do you think the film business is looking at the record industry as a cautionary tale?Midnight RiderI don’t think anyone’s after me. The older you get, the harder you have to fight for relevance. My audience is older. I can tell, because the line’s larger at the men’s room now than it is for the ladies’ room at my shows.I know what I am here to do. I’m a songwriter, and I’m working on a musical,.
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