1. Transcendental Blues
2. Everyone's In Love With You
3. Another Town
4. I Can Wait
5. The Boy Who Never Cried
6. Steve's Last Ramble
7. The Galway Girl
8. Lonlier Than This
9. Wherever I Go
10. When I Fall
11. I Don't Want To Lose You Yet
12. Halo 'Round The Moon
13. Until The Day I Die
14. All Of My Life
15. Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
After Steve Earle redrew a handful of musical maps with 1997's El
Corazon, it was surprising to hear the troubadour team with Del McCoury
on the unabashed bluegrass set The
Mountain. In truth, El Corazon paved the way for Transcendental Blues.
Here Earle returns back to the sprawl of El Corazon. There's Spartan, yearning
folk in "Over Yonder," boot-scooting 'grass on "Until the Day I Die," and ear-pinning
rock on "Everyone's in Love with You." Earle rescues the connection between Ireland
and American traditionalism with the mandolin-driven "Galway Girl" and even seems
inspired by fables with "The Boy Who Never Cried." Earle shows again and again
that he's a consummate indexer, demonstrating how American music crisscrosses
distinct styles. As a singer, Earle is alternately snarly, wispy, guttural, and
earnest. In short, he's able to shake the ear with a fresh musical twist and then
settle the listener with all the broad-minded smarts he's relied upon since his
mid-'90s comeback. --Andrew Bartlett
