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Audio CD: Release Date 2000-06-06
Publisher: Artemis Records
Artist: Steve Earle
Sales Rank in Music: #29529
Product Review
Dutch version of the country rocker's 2000 album which combines rock, country, punk, bluegrass, and the blues, as only Steve Earle can. First pressing includes a 4 track bonus live CD which features 'Copperhead Road', 'Galway Girl', 'Steve's Last Ramble'
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
While Steve Earle's last album, The Mountain, was an all-acoustic collection of folk and bluegrass, his latest project returns to the trademark stylistic eclecticism that he displayed on El Corazon (1997). Transcendental Blues flows from gentle folk to British invasion pop, from Celtic-flavored jaunts to hard-edged country-rock and bluegrass romps, and as always Earle deftly blurs these lines. --Marc Greilsamer
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
Title Tracks for Transcendental Blues
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)
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(119 customer reviews)
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Is Steve Earle capable of making a bad record?, June 14, 2000
Ken Hart (Ironton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transcendental Blues (Audio CD)
I'm beginning to believe the answer is no. "Transcendental Blues" is his fifth release since getting clean and sober. I believe that it, and its predecessors, constitute the most impressive body of work by an American artist over the past 10 years. There's not a doggie among the 15 incredibly diverse tracks on "Transcendental Blues." Earle explores musical styles ranging from Irish folk ("The Galway Girl") to garage rock ("All of My Life") to Byrdsian country rock ("I Don't Wanna Lose You Yet") to bluegrass ("Until the Day I Die"). The disc closes with "Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)", a heart-wrenching recounting of a condemned man's final hours that was inspired by a 1998 execution that Earle witnessed at the request of the condemned man. It is a testament to Earle's songwriting ability that, despite his well-publicized opposition to capital punishment, the song is not the least bit preachy and comes off...Read more
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
THE BEST SONGWRITER ALIVE TODAY?, November 29, 2002
adam david (new york) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transcendental Blues (Audio CD)
The first Steve Earle album I bought was Copperhead Road. It was good, and what I was happiest about with it was that I was sure that I would never need buy a Steve Earle record again.Then somewhere along the way I lost it, and rather than replacing it I picked up Ain't Ever Satisfied instead, a greatest hits collection that included the best material from Copperhead Road, as well as a great deal of songs from Guitar Town and Exit O. I became aware of how much I had been missing from this artist, but now that I had the greatest hits collection, hey, I'd never need another Earle album again.Then I bought a Steve Earle songbook that included a lot of the material that I already had, but also included a handful of songs from albums I didn't. After learning the songs - and quickly appreciating their quality and craft - I picked up I Feel Alright and Train A'Comin. Great stuff, even if now my Steve Earle collection was taking up more space than I originally had planned. Still,...Read more
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I'm still waiting........., September 24, 2000
PD (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transcendental Blues (Audio CD)
Well, I guess these days I just get a little bit nervous every time a new Steve Earle album comes out. One of these days, he is going to prove to me that he is mortal, and going to release a dud. Fortunately, this is not the album, and it starts to make me wonder, when am I going to find anyone else that can ever compare to the great man. Transcendental Blues continues to carry me on the roller coaster ride I have been on, ever since I was lying on my bedroom floor at the tender age of 16, and heard Copperhead Road make it's way out of the radio. In the early nineties, I was defintley getting worried, when Steve vanished from our lives, but he popped up in '95 with a little masterpiece, and he has kept the 'pedal to the metal' ever since. His music is able to strike a chord with you, & TB continues in this vein. Steve's Last Ramble & Galway Girl would fit perfectly in any of the Irish theme pubs here in Melbourne, while All of my Life & Everyones In Love With You, can rock...Read more
(119 customer reviews) 
Is Steve Earle capable of making a bad record?, June 14, 2000