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Sidetracks [CD]

Steve Earle | Format: Audio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (2 Oct 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: ADA Global
  • ASIN: B00019JNYE
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 65,115 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Some Dreams
2. Open Your Window
3. Me And The Eagle
4. Johhny Too Bad
5. Dominic Street
6. Breed
7. Time Has Come Today
8. Ellis Unit One
9. Creepy Jackalope Eye
10. Willin
11. Sara's Angel
12. My Uncle
13. My Back Pages

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Leave it to Steve Earle to unleash Sidetracks, one of the most off-the-wall odds & sods collections ever; it's also, by the way, one of the most satisfying. Except for two plucky instrumentals originally meant for Transcendental Blues, there are no outtakes here, just a batch of movie-soundtrack songs, demos, live takes and previously unreleased tracks. They include the inspired, revelatory "Me and the Eagle" (from The Horse Whisperer); the credible white-boy reggae "Johnny Too Bad" with the V-Roys; a churning remake of Nirvana's "Breed"; a storming, camp-free duet with Sheryl Crow on the Chambers Brothers' psychedelic period piece "Time Has Come Today"; and a demo of "Ellis Unit One" with the Fairfield Four that sounds like a field recording made inside the prison walls. It all hangs together to rank this among Earle's finest albums. --John Morthland

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For an album of music that's been left off other albums, this is a good as it gets.

From 'Some Dreams' right through to 'Back Pages', every single one of these songs is a hit. Once again Steve Earle has produced a brilliant sound with some surprises thrown in to boot.

Who'd have thought a folk/country singer could cover 'Breed' by Cobain so well? Not me that's for sure.

And the full gamut of Earle's genius is here. There's the Bluegrass, the Irish folk music, the rock, the reggae and of course the politics.

The excellent 'Ellis Unit 1' from Dead Man walking, complete with the Fairfield Four as backing singers is a moving essay on a warder's eye view of Death row.

And 'Time has come today' just about is the standout track on here. Brilliant in it's execution with Sheryl Crow and Abbie Hoffman all adding to a Zeitgeist update of a classic.

If you know nothing about Stever Earle, get a flavour of the man and his view on life with this, before moving on to other albums.

Just think, if this some of the stuff he left off his regular albums, how good is the stuff he puts in them?

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The ones that got away 21 April 2002
Format:Audio CD
In his liner notes, Steve is at pains to insist that (with the exception of two instrumentals he regrets leaving off Transcendental Blues), this is not an outtakes cd; rather it's a collection of unreleased or unexposed "stray" tracks. From film soundtracks to album bonus tracks, with one live track, this almost inevitably lacks the completeness of Steve's recent albums. Nonetheless, it contains some absolute gems. A 50-50 mix of Steve originals and cover versions, and an extraordinary range of styles from country rock, to reggae via grunge and Irish folk. Worth buying if only for the versions of Dylan's "My Back Pages", the Flying Burrito Brothers "My Uncle" recorded live, and - especially - Nirvana's "Breed". The latter - originally released only as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Transcendental Blues,
- is if anything, even better than the original.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A Superb collection 8 Aug 2002
Format:Audio CD
It is hard to believe that this is a collection of 'stray' tracks as Mr Earle puts it. This really is a superb collection of tracks that show just how versatile Steve earle really is.

Many different musical styles are covered here from Rock to country, from blugrass to traditional irish folk music. This album really has it all.

With two instrumentals, some originals and some covers this is a standout album. Highlights for me are Breed which is delivered with screeching guitars and husky vocals it's right up there with Unrepentant and NYC as Earle grunge classics. Time has come today is given a superb reworking with Sheryl Crow duetting. A superb cover of Dylan's my back pages and the haunting Ellis unit one make this album complete.

Oh, yes and also an authentic reggae version of the slickers Johnny to bad. Whatever will he do next ?

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