El Coraz贸n

by Steve Earle

El Coraz贸n cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 October 1997
  • Label: E-Squared
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:12
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'El Coraz贸n' is a rugged, deeply personal masterclass in roots rock and alt-country. Steve Earle seamlessly shifts from aggressive country rock to quiet, acoustic Americana, delivering melancholic and bittersweet reflections on redemption and hard-lived American life.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, honest, acoustic, folk, nostalgia

Tracklist

  1. Christmas in Washington (4:58)
  2. Taneytown (5:13)
  3. If You Fall (4:10)
  4. I Still Carry You Around (with the Del McCoury Band) (2:45)
  5. Telephone Road (with the Fairfield Four) (3:42)
  6. Somewhere out There (3:46)
  7. You Know the Rest (2:12)
  8. N.Y.C. (with the Supersuckers) (3:37)
  9. Poison Lovers (3:47)
  10. The Other Side of Town (4:17)
  11. Here I Am (2:38)
  12. Ft. Worth Blues (4:02)

Credits

  • Steve Earle - primary artist, liner notes [may '97], written-by, guitar [guitars], mandola, harmonium, vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, vocals, twelve-string guitar [12-string guitars], vocals, guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, vocals, twelve-string guitar [12-string guitar], vocals, electric guitar, vocals
  • Jack Emerson - a&r [for e2]
  • Kelley Walker - a&r [for e2]
  • Joe McEwen - a&r [for wb]
  • Brad Talbott - art direction, design
  • Tony Fitzpatrick - artwork [cover art], illustration [additional illustration]
  • Frank Riley - booking [for monterey peninsula artists]
  • Monterey Peninsula Artists - booking [for]
  • William Alsobrook - crew [quartermaster]
  • Patrick Earle - engineer [assistant engineer]
  • Patrick Fisher - engineer [assistant engineer]
  • Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips - legal [for]
  • Ken Kraus - legal [lizard, for manatt, phelps & phillips llc]
  • Charles Sussman - management [business management]
  • Dan Gillis - management [for dan gillis management]
  • Dan Gillis Management - management [for]
  • Elisa Sanders - management [invaluable ass covering], handclaps [hand claps]
  • Kathleen Cotter - management [invaluable ass covering], handclaps [hand claps]
  • Hank Williams - mastered by, mastering
  • Ray Kennedy - mixed by, recorded by, mixed by, shaker, drum [hand drum], tambourine, harmonium
  • Jim McGuire - photography by
  • The Twangtrust - producer [produced by]
  • Jon Dunleavy - recorded by
  • Cad - technician [console, automation & mics]
  • Mark Stuart - acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals, mandola
  • Kelley Looney - bass
  • Brady Blade - drums, percussion, drums, washboard [rub board], tambourine
  • David Steele - electric guitar
  • Emmylou Harris - vocals
  • Rob McCoury - banjo
  • Mike Bub - bass
  • Jason Carter - fiddle
  • Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
  • Ronnie McCoury - mandolin, vocals
  • Jim Hoke - baritone saxophone
  • Cheri Knight - handclaps [hand claps]
  • Mark Prentice - music director [music direction for the fairfield four]
  • Micheal Smotherman - organ
  • Isaac Freeman - performer [the fairfield four]
  • James Hill - performer [the fairfield four]
  • Joseph Rice - performer [the fairfield four]
  • Robert Hamlett - performer [the fairfield four]
  • Wilson Waters - performer [the fairfield four]
  • Michael Kelsh - vocals
  • Scott Miller - vocals
  • Roy Huskey Jr. - bass
  • Eddie Spaghetti - bass
  • Dancing Eagle - drums
  • Dan Bolton - electric guitar
  • Renaldo Allegre - electric guitar
  • T. Money - percussion [needle drops]
  • Tommy Hannum - steel guitar, pedal steel guitar [pedal steel]
  • Brad Jones - bass, vocals
  • Ross Rice - drums, vocals
  • Justin Townes Earle - electric guitar

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