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By the time i wrote those first three songs for his new cd ... i wanted to push the poetics as hard as i could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until i committed them to whatever the recording format was. i went through drafts right up until i recorded every single one of them.
-Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
By the time i wrote those first three songs for his new cd ... i wanted to push the poetics as hard as i could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until i committed them to whatever the recording format was. i went through drafts right up until i recorded every single one of them.
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