Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle: Colvin & Earle review – easy, upbeat Americana

(Fantasy Records)Steve Earle has moved on, yet again. The last album from one of the finest, most versatile songwriters of the Americana scene was Terraplane, a celebration of the blues, clearly influenced by his seventh divorce. Now comes a series of duets performed and mostly written with the Grammy-winning singer Shawn Colvin. The producer is the great guitarist Buddy Miller, the band includes guitarist Richard Bennett, who played on Earle’s gutsy breakthrough album Guitar Town in 1986...

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