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When I moved, I had a theater company in Nashville for a minute that started because of a girlfriend that was an actor. Theater has always been a big deal to me. вЂњThey had a nice little traditional proscenium theater and Tommy Tune came out of that school actually. вЂњMy grandmother was the seamstress in the drama department of a teeny, tiny junior college in Northeast Texas called Lon Morris College and they did a musical, a straight play and Shakespeare every year,вЂќ he said. While Earle has made his mark as an Americana singer-songwriter, his interest in theater dates goes back a couple of generations in his family. It was a production at ManhattanвЂ™s Public Theater and was EarleвЂ™s latest foray into theater following his involvement with playwright Richard MaxwellвЂ™s 2017 Off Broadway play Samara, where the Texas native wrote the score and had a bit part in the cast. Prior to the planet coming under a coronavirus lockdown, Earle was the musical director for Coal Country, a play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen that centered on the 2010 West Virginia Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 men and tore that community apart. Steve Earle & The Dukes at Electric Lady Studios circa 2015 The metaphorical pause button hit by the pandemic wreaked even more havoc for touring musicians, who make their money on the road and were instead forced to stay home as that part of the music industry ground to a complete halt.

But as has been the case everywhere, COVID-19 threw a major monkey wrench into the plans of the world. ItвЂ™s that time of year when singer-songwriter Steve Earle is getting ready to pack up and hit the road after spending the prior nine months as a single dad for his son John Henry, who is autistic and attends a special needs school in Manhattan.

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