Steve Earle opened his show at a sold-out Birchmere on Tuesday night with “Tom Ames’ Prayer,” a song about a young bank robber who has a complex relationship with the Lord. “I wrote that song fifty ...

Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own ...

“I’m an unapologetic lefty, but I don’t think we’re perfect,” Earle says. “And I think that we’ve obviously forgotten how to communicate with working people, or we wouldn’t be in the position that ...