Steve Earle

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Biography

Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author, political activist, and Grammy Award winner.

  • Real name
  • Stephen Fain Earle
  • Name variations
  • Earle·S. Earle·S.E.·Stephen Earle·Stephen F Earle·Stephen F. Ear·Stephen F. Earle·Stephen Fain Earle·Steve·Steve Earl
  • Aliases
  • Steve Earle & Friends·Steve Earl·Stephen Fain Earle
  • Steve Earle & The Dukes·Steve Earle & The Dukes (And Duchesses)
  • Primary profession
  • Soundtrack·actor·composer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 January 1955
  • Place of birth
  • Fort Monroe
  • Member of
  • Detroit Express·Wichita Wings·Fulham F.C.·Peterborough United F.C.·Leicester City F.C.·Tulsa Roughnecks

Music

Lyrics

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

He has married 7 times and divorced 6 times. He married Lou-Anne twice.

Singer/guitarist/songwriter.

Is a dedicated anti-death penalty activist.

He performs a free concert at "Starvin for Justice", a four-day fast and vigil held every summer in front of the US Supreme Court.

Several of Steves songs are about capital punishment.

Steve is the creator of E squared records.

His song "John Walker Blues" ignited controversy for its sympathetic view of convicted terrorist John Walker Lindh, the American who joined the Taliban in 2001.

Was a part of the music-going crowd that is seen during the Centennial Park filming sequences of Robert Altman s Nashville , which was filmed in 1974.

Brother-in-law of Shelby Lynne.

Quotes

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

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