Pheaturing Steve Earle

 

Hi there, kids. Welcome to the Phile for a Tuesday. How are you? Yesterday was my birthday and I feel older. Haha. One minute you're young and fun. And the next, you're turning down the stereo in your car to see better. I've reached that age where my brain goes from "you probably shouldn't say that" to "what the hell, let's see what happens." Being an adult is pretty easy, you just feel tired all the time and tell people how tired you are and they tell you how tired they are. I'm still waiting patiently for the wisdom that supposedly comes with old age. Anyone else? The fact that my entire body cracks whenever I move and yet refuses to actually glow is very disappointing. 

Now that it's been officially confirmed that Marvel Studios will begin production with Deadpool 3 in the near future, excitement is slowly building for the much-awaited arrival of the fourth-wall-breaking character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The only question on everyone's mind now is, how will the R-rated hero fare in the lighthearted MCU? There's no doubt that Mr. Pool will be bringing in as much chaos as he could and then some to the franchise with the general belief amongst fans being that Marvel Studios, despite Disney's family-oriented product will not hold back when it comes to the R-rated nature of the character played by Ryan Reynolds in the now-defunct Foxverse. A gruesome and graphic fan-made poster is making the rounds all over social media, and boy, this is what Wade Wilson is all about! Artist @spdrmnkyxxiii shared his magnificent artwork on Instagram which features Deadpool beheading himself ahead of his MCU arrival. It's totally NSFW. Check it out...

Say what you will about this forthcoming crossover but Deadpool will be a breath of fresh air in the MCU and it's about time for Kevin Feige and his crew to embrace a more serious tone in the franchise. Hopefully, Ryan Reynolds will still be able to get full control over his portrayal because quite frankly, the previous Deadpool films proved that he knows exactly what he's doing and what's best for the live-action version of the character. Other details about Deadpool 3 are still being kept under wraps.

An 11-month long investigation by local and federal law enforcement agencies resulted in more than 100 arrests and disrupted a white supremacist gang operation that was responsible for terrorizing people in four states and the California prison system. According to authorities, the gang known as the “Fresnecks,” is being accused of working with several incarcerated members of the Aryan Brotherhood who commit violent crimes and kidnappings. They’re also accused of trafficking illegal drugs and firearms in multiple California cities, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Lucky Charms” due to the Shamrock symbol that is often associated with the Aryan Brotherhood, resulted in the arrest of 102 individuals that are tied to the gangs. Last week 39 search warrants were executed by multiple federal and state enforcement agencies that resulted in the arrest of more than 60 people across Montana, Nevada, and California who allegedly had ties to the Brotherhood or the Fresnecks. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at least five of those people were already in the California state prison system, and that’s since been transferred to federal custody. In law enforcement operations, authorities also managed to seize a total of 47 firearms, nearly 6 lb of heroin, nearly 90 lb of methamphetamine, and $136,000 in cash. According to the Fresno Sheriff’s office, the two gangs had already been operating a multi-state operation to smuggle drugs and cell phones into prisons around the United States. Using those cell phones, gang members both out and in the prison system were allegedly able to communicate with prison gangs, by organizing a number of illicit operations such as assassinations and gun and drug trafficking. Authorities also noted that the Brotherhood and Fresnecks also had several ties to robberies, murders in other states including Alabama, Idaho, Missouri, and Montana, and several robberies. Apparently, this wasn’t the first time multiple state sweeps were conducted where the Fresnecks were targeted by local law enforcement and police officers. Two years ago, 37 members of the gang were arrested for several violent offenses which included robbery, sex crimes, and assault, according to the Fresno Bee in California. The Department of Justice stated that since it is an ongoing investigation, at least 11 acts of violence planned by the network of white supremacists or extremists were halted since last January. According to the FBI, hate crimes in the United States have been on the rise. There were a total of 51 hate crimes related murders reported back in 2019 compared to a total of 24 in 2018.

In times like these, you can absolutely get a simple assault charge for breathing on someone. COVID-19 has forever changed how people interact with each other, and until a vaccine is present, forcibly breathing on someone is considered a crime. And rightfully so, as Raymond Deskins found out. In Sterling, Virginia, outside President Donald Trump National Golf Club, a video of Raymond Deskins went viral on social media after it caught him forcefully breathing on two women. Both protesters and Trump supporters gather outside the club’s entrance, waiting for the president to come golfing at the club, and this time, things got a little sticky. According to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, the two women were outside the golf course, protesting the president. Deskins, wearing a Trump shirt and an inflatable Trump pool tube with “Keep America Great" on it, approaches them with no mask on. In Virginia, however, the mask order states that masks are required to be worn in certain locations, but not outside. But that doesn’t mean the coronavirus pandemic won’t spread just because you’re outside. Deskins takes a deep breath and forcibly exhales on the women, to which one of them asks him to move away because he’s not wearing a mask. After he breathes on them, one of the women goes, “That’s assault.” He replies, “I breathed on you,” and then proceeds to exhale on them again. Kathy Beynette, an anti-Trump witness, told CBS News that Deskins had approached the Trump supporters first. And members of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors sent a letter to law enforcement to open a full investigation, giving the details about what had happened. But the sheriff’s office said that because this altercation wasn’t witnessed by law enforcement and that the video didn’t capture everything, they advise that the two women seek a warrant through a county magistrate. Soon enough, as a result of a warrant obtained by a private citizen through the Loudoun County Magistrate, 61-year-old Deskins was charged with misdemeanor assault, but has not responded to a request for comment from the Associated Press. I can imagine he’s pretty embarrassed about what he’s done. It shouldn’t matter if you’re a Republican or Democrat. We all need to help each other in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and things won’t get better until we’re all on the same page.

Whether having to do with the actual insect, or a wiry biker with the nickname, anything involving something called “wasp” should be kept away from one’s vagina... the only exception being a white Episcopalian gynocologist. For reasons that are as insane as the actual act of putting a wasp nest in your vagina, some women have decided that putting wasp nests in their vaginas is a great natural way to, um, tighten said vaginas. Why? No idea. Somehow this is a real thing, and it’s even gone so far as to be sold on Etsy and Amazon as some sort of herbal remedy. According to the page, Oak Gall can (maybe, no guarantees!) help with vaginal tightness and vaginal odor. But wait, that’s not all! It’s also (maybe) great for mouth health, and can (possibly) prevent bad breath and bleeding gums. Oak Gall is a strong binder and may help to tighten the vagina and control odor. Oak Gall gargles may help in preventing bad breath and its astringent properties may be useful in bleeing gums. Wow. Who knew this useless, bizarre new trend had so many unconfirmed uses? Look, far be it from me, a vagina-less man with absolutely zero medical education, to tell any woman how to take care of their vaginas. That being said, despite my total lack of qualifications to speak on women’s health, I feel safe in my assertion that you should not be putting wasp nests into your privates. I’m also not a proctologist, but I’m pretty sure people probably shouldn’t be jamming beehives up their butts either. Don’t just take my dumb word for it though. Real doctors think it’s trash too. Dr. Jen Gunter, a Canadian OB-GYN, pretty much dismisses Oak Gall outright in one of her blog posts, saying the claims about its “healing properties” are dubious at best and that its purveyors are conflating “vaginal tightness” with vaginal dryness. The title of the post is literally, “Don’t put ground up wasp nest in your vagina.” According to Dr. Gunter, using Oak Gall can destroy the good bacteria in the vagina, as well as its protective mucous layer. That increases the risk for HIV transmission and vaginal abrasions, neither of which is all that great for someone’s sex life. So yeah, what she said. Don’t do that.

Ugly Christmas sweater parties are the best. Trips to Goodwill for tacky Christmas sweaters are always a good time! I love a good funny ugly sweater, but I’ve found something cuter that you might want to wear to this year’s party. Maybe not to a work-related holiday party, but one with close friends. Tits the season, y’all. 

Ladies, If your significant other is pissed that you’re dragging him to your holiday party, I promise he won’t be upset about it anymore. Throw this sweatshirt on and he’ll be sure to tag along. This sweater has mittens that are perfect for keeping your man’s hands warm and toasty all night long, thanks to your boobs. Looks like he’ll be ditching the hand warmers and gloves this holiday season! This is not your typical holiday crewneck sweatshirt. There isn’t a cute snowman, snowflakes, or “Happy Holidays,” printed across the chest area... just inserts for someone to hold your boobs. You’ll make Santa’s naughty list once you put this awesome Christmas sweater on. Your next work party is going to be interesting. Hopefully, the creepy World of Worldcraft dweeb from marketing doesn’t think he can slip his hands in your sweater! This pullover is going to make a fantastic Christmas gift for your loved one. Everyone loves changing into something comfier after Christmas dinner, so grab this funny Christmas sweater and place it under the Christmas tree for your lady. You can also find similar styles in t-shirts, tank tops, and long sleeve styles. This women’s ugly Christmas sweater is going to be a major hit. An Amazon customer gave it five-stars and said, “Great sweater! Got so many compliments at the tacky Christmas party that I attended. Would definitely recommend if you want a good laugh.” 

So, this season some NFL teams are changing their logos. Here's another new one...

Once in a moon for fun I like to get on Twitter and look up certain words to see what people are saying. I recently looked up "Foghat" and found this tweet...

I don't get it. Oh, well. So, I have a slight sunburn but at least I don't look like this...

How did he let that happen? Haha. Death is a difficult thing to anticipate but many do what they can to make plans ahead of time. A Phile reader faced pushback from their family over their late mother’s arrangements. The 24-year-old man turned to the Phile for feedback on their decision, asking if he was wrong for not letting my step mom be buried with my dad.

"When I was very young my dad was diagnosed with cancer. He survived but it was very close and my mom bought a three person burial site in our local cemetery just in case he died so that one day we could be buried together. About 5 years after his cancer scare my mom died in an accident at work. Pretty much immediately after my step mom came into the picture. It was pretty clear from the get go that she was only interested in dad because of mum’s life insurance plus the accidental death payout. She had two kids from prior marriages (dad was her third). My dad was devastated from losing mom and I think he just saw my step mom as an easy person to comfort him. I absolutely do not blame him for the shit she put me through. My preteen and teen years sucked because of her, I was continuously bullied by her kids and her, I wasn’t allowed to join sports teams or socialize after school. If I wasn’t studying then I was cleaning and if I protested then I would go without meals. My dad died about 8 years after mom did and my step mom immediately kicked me out. I was only 15 at the time. There was a huge fight over my dad’s assets because he left almost everything to me. Long story short she has just died. Her children have approached me and asked that she be buried next to dad and mom. I have refused. They’re now lambasting me all over Facebook and to mutual friends accusing me of being mean and that she was dad’s wife and should be buried next to him. Am I wrong here? No, you're not wrong. She made it clear by kicking you out as a CHILD that you are not her family. Why should she be buried next to yours? She has two other husbands she can be buried next to (to whom each kid has a connection as the father). Pick one of those. What monster kicks out a 15-year-old orphan? I doubt your dad would want to be buried with her if he knew what she did to you. Also, it’s kind of weird that your step siblings want to bury your stepmom with your mother. In fact you would bury a woman with the deceased wife of her late husband. Please don’t let your step siblings take advantage of you. That is a family plot allocated prior to their marriage. Had he any intention of being buried with her, your dad would have taken the means to do so. Ignore them, block them, whatever. You have done nothing wrong. It’s not her resting place. Even Cinderella’s stepmother didn’t kick her out of the house. I’m sorry for everything you went through growing up. Your mom purchased the plots specifically for the three of you. You don’t owe your stepmom anything. Your bio-parents made their requests pretty clear when they got the three of you plots together. Your dad had years to update his wishes if he had wanted to. At this point the decision is yours and you are allowed to make it however you want. Given how things went between all of you, I agree with your sentiment and encourage you to stay strong. I wish you the best. If you have a problem you'd like my opinion on then email me at thepeverettphile@gmail.com. 

If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York here is...

Top Phive Things Said About Life After A COVID Vaccine

5. When we get the vaccine I'm going to sit in a bar until I am kindly escorted out for falling asleep on it. 4. When we get the vaccine I'm going to sit in a diner fir 24 hours. 

3. When we get the COVID vaccine the first thing I will do is take a nap. 

2. When we get the vaccine I'm going to sit in a pool for 24 hours. 

And the number one thing said about life after a COVID vaccine is...

1. When we get the vaccine, I hope they give us a sticker like when we voted.

The 140th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...

Jane Fonda will be the guest on the Phile on Monday. Okay, let's take a live look at Port Jefferson, shall we?

Looks like a nice day there and the Seawolf is not there. The Stony Brook University kids must be using it. Okay, here's a story from...

A 74-year-old Florida man was caught on video rescuing his 3-month-old puppy from the jaws of an alligator that jumped out of his backyard pond and pulled the dog under. Richard Wilbanks was smoking a cigar in his backyard while his brand new Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy, Gunner, happily played near the water’s edge. This being Florida, however, there was evil lurking in the dark. A small (but big enough to eat a puppy) alligator popped out of the water and dragged Gunner under. Hearing the ruckus and seeing his sweet new puppy being pulled under, Wilbanks sprinted toward the pond, cigar in mouth, and dove in after his dog. With his adrenaline pumping Wilbanks shot into the water like a missile and pulled the puppy, who was still in the gator’s clutches, out from underwater. The gator, however, was still holding on tight, so Wilbanks had to force the gator’s mouth open. The entire ordeal was caught on a wildlife camera set up by the Florida Wildlife Federation and the Sop Foundation, who the cameras in the yards of Florida residents whose homes have a shared landscape with wild habitats in order to observe the animals. Fortunately for everyone, both Gunner and Wilbanks were fine, though Wilbanks did suffer some small puncture wounds and was bleeding after the encounter. Gunner, at this point, is probably acting like a typical puppy and is none the wiser to the fact that he was almost murdered by a small dinosaur. Credit to Wilbanks for not only moving like a man a third his age to save his beloved puppy but not even losing his cigar in the process.

Phact 1. A man in Shaanxi, China, recently realized that the long-handled, blunt-ended object he’d been using for 25 years to crack walnuts was actually a live hand grenade. 

Phact 2. It was reported in 2002 that Warner Brothers Pictures had secured the rights for a live-action Johnny Bravo feature film “as a potential starring vehicle for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. However, by 2015, no further developments regarding this project had been announced.

Phact 3. A Japanese submarine shelled California during WWII and the commander directed his gun to fire at a spot where he had an embarrassing fall before the war. 

Phact 4. In the first week of the Iraq war, 1st Lt. Brian Chontosh saved his troops from an ambush by personally clearing a trench of enemy soldiers, running out of ammo for his rifle and pistol and picking up two enemy rifles along the way to finish the job. 

Phact 5. New York City pizzerias that served slices and refused to use Al Capone’s cheese would be firebombed.

Today's guest is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. His great album "Guy" and all his other albums are available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Please welcome to the Phile... Steve Earle.

Me: Hey, Steve, welcome to the Phile. I've been wanting to have you here for a while now. How are you? 

Steve: I'm doing good. I'm doing this interview and I want to say buy my records. 

Me: So, your album "Guy" is a tribute album to Guy Clark. Tell the readers who that is. 

Steve: I owe a lot of my success to my friend and mentor Guy Clark, who helped me gather momentum in my early career. Guy may not be a familiar name, but he was a huge force in the folk and country music scene. When he passed away a few years ago, I decided he needed to honor my dear friend. 

Me: When did you first meet Guy? 

Steve: At Nashville in 1974. I already knew Townes Van Zandt and I met him when I was 17 in Houston. There was a lot going on in Austin, I grew up 90 miles from there, but Austin seemed like a less a situation to me for a lot of reasons. Whether it was the girls were too pretty to cheap and I'd never get anything done there so I decided to go to Nashville and Guy had been there for a few years. Because I knew Townes he gave me an automatic introduction to Guy. 

Me: What was the meeting like? 

Steve: We met at Bishop's Pub. I've been there for a couple of months and Guy and Townes had moved out to a lake, to the country a little bit as they were making a little more money, they bought a house out there. I had been there for several weeks and I didn't run into Guy because they had left town. I walk into Bishop's Pub which was a basket house actually. It was a bar where you could pass the hat, you know. It was a weird rule, you can pass a hat or have two beers but you couldn't do both. I could never figure it out.  

Me: Is it still there? 

Steve: No, it's a restaurant now called Tin Angel on West End Ave. 

Me: Ahhh. Okay, so you went to Bishop's Pub and...? 

Steve: I walked in and a friend of mine, Richard Dobson was behind the bar, and I walked in to do a set and he said Guy's in the back. He knew that's why I was in Nashville to meet Guy Clark more than anything else. I played several of Guy's songs before I met him because Jerry Jeff Walker recorded them and Guy's first record didn't come out until after I got there. In fact the first record I got my name on was a Guy record because I sang background vocals on one track. 

Me: So, you went to the back on the pub I'm guessing, right? 

Steve: Yeah, Richard Dobson said when I walked in that Guy was in the back, when I went to the back there was a pool room right there and Guy was shooting pool. It was him and Susanna and Jim Starfford and Deborah Allen. I just sort of snuck back in the corner and had this cowboy hat on I thought no one would recognize me when I got there. He was lining up a shot and he saw me right in the corner because he was lining up the shot, he looked up at me through his eyebrows and said, "Nice hat." That started a conversation, he found out I knew Townes and I started to get asked to do things. That was the beginning of it. 

Me: What was so great about Guy Clark in your eyes, Steve? 

Steve: Guy Clark was one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived in my opinion. He was a songwriter who started off as a folk singer in Texas. He didn't really write songs until he was almost 30, but he had people around like Jerry Jeff Walker and Townes Van Zandt who he knew and he watched what they were doing and finally started writing and moved to Nashville. He moved to L.A. first, went to San Francisco, worked at a guitar repair shop because he did that. He built guitars and repaired them. Then that failed he went to L.A., signed to a publishing deal and they asked him where he wanted to live and he said, "Not here." He never did like L.A. all that much so he went to Nashville. 

Me: And other people recorded his songs, right? 

Steve: He wrote "Heartbroke" that Ricky Skaggs recorded. He had hits here and there but mainly we were all post Bob Dylan songwriters. We were writing songs intending to be art on purpose and tried to push each other to a higher level of songwriting all the time. 

Me: Did Guy teach you anything specific about songwriting? 

Steve: Yeah, write with a pencil not a pen. Get a big eraser. Songs are not finished until you play them for people, that's one of the most important things. 

Me: Were you guys competitive with one and the other? 

Steve: You know, we were trying to outdo each other to a certain extent but it was very friendly and we learned a lot from each other. I was trying to impress Susanna more than anyone else. Susanna Clark wrote very good songs and had more hits than the most of us had for a long time but she was a painter first and foremost and painted beautifully and had definite ideas what art was and what it wasn't so the bar for her was very high. If we got a song past Susanna then we knew we had something. 

Me: Did you guys stay in touch? 

Steve: Everybody's gone. 

Me: Did you stay in touch with Guy? 

Steve: I did but there was a period when I wasn't in touch with him as much. For one thing we both started making records and touring so we would see each other basically everywhere but Nashville. I moved to New York in 2005, I started seeing him less. Then the last two years of his life, he had lymphoma for 10 years, and the last couple of years he couldn't tour anymore. He started to get to sick to do it so I had to make a point to see him and I did. I saw him for every three or four weeks for the last year and a half or so. 

Me: If you don't mind me asking how did you find out that he passed? 

Steve: Well, Rodney Crowell called me. He texted me first and said that Guy was home, but it probably wasn't going to be long. I just seen him about ten days before and he wasn't in great shape. Then I got a text about 6 o'clock the next morning that just said "gone." 

Me: Oh, man. Do you think you learned something knew by making this album that you didn't know before? 

Steve: Yeah. I definitely remembered somethings that I may have forgotten and needed to remember. It reinforced the basic idea that we can write incredibly personal stuff as long as you remember and stick to the experiences everybody else has a version of that experience. I almost didn't record "The Randall Knife" because it was so personal and I realized everybody has a dad and to me a dad is a complicated relationship, I don't care how good it is. It's never ever simple because we're in competition with our fathers and our fathers are in competition with us and there's no way to get around that. That's what males do. 

Me: The only competition I had with my dad was who can get the latest Graham Parker release first. Hahaha. Are you in competition with your dad? 

Steve: My dad called me one time when he found me in San Antonio, I had a publishing deal that Guy helped me get but the company sold. I still had the deal, I was getting 150 dollars a week but there was no office in Nashville to take my songs and L.A. thought my songs were too country so I started goin to Texas hanging out with my friends and went back to Nashville to see what's going on. Then finally I went to Mexico, I rented a house there. I could live a lot better with 150 dollars a week in Mexico than I could in Nashville so I decided to wait it out down there. I was in San Antonio and my dad tracked me down at my friends house, this was long before cellphones. This was in '77 and I've been there for three years. He said, "You know, you gave this a really good shot, you could get a job for 17 or 18 dollars an hour." That was a lot of money then. He was talking about a refinery job, because he lived in Houston by that time. "You gave it a shot, you have nothing to be ashamed off." I said, "Dad, I decided the day before yesterday I'm going to Mexico for a month, can you at least do that?" He shut up, he never argued about that with me again. But yeah, I think our fathers watch us and I think their jealous as far as a relationship. 

Me: Your son is a songwriter too, right? 

Steve: Yeah, I finally heard a John Henry song but he hasn't heard it yet. I can't wait for him to because I think I did a pretty good job. I was always jealous that he wrote a John Henry song and I didn't. 

Me: So, I have to ask you what you think of the song "Old Town Road"? Hahahaha. 

Steve: Yeah, I heard some of the stuff. The main thing is I'm never going to be the one to tell anyone that that's not country because I had guy dance up to the stage in las Vegas when "Guitar Town" was the number one album and say, "Play some country" in the middle of my set and that was only the songs that we knew. I just stopped in the middle of the song and said, "Man, I got the number one country album in the country at this moment and right now I decide what's county and what's not." I very famously said country music as far as I can tell is hip hop for people that are afraid of black people. And I think that's true, culturally that is true but it has nothing to do with me deciding what's country. I said it was country and it has changed. Its one of the things that it is. I don't understand why it's so hostile to female artists. Some of the records, that I like the best, I'm not kidding when I say what I do is like being a Civil War reenactor. What I do is now archaic is terms of modern country music. But Kasey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert's last records was one of the best records I have ever heard. Chris Stapleton is one guy who I buy and listen to all his records, those are the people I like who have come along. I don't hate the rest of it, but I don't listen to that much music. I don't have so much time and I'm selective to what I listen to. 

Me: What's your take on crossover music and the people that are against it? 

Steve: I don't know. No one tried to prevent crossover before. It was always considered to be healthy. I'm not supposed like everything that somebody 25-years-old likes. 

Me: So, when you play live shows do you like big shows or smaller more intimate shows? 

Steve: My favorite thing is a place that is partially seated and partially standing. Standing audiences are exciting and that's never changed for me. I got to be realistic about it, who pays my alimony... so... 

Me: Do you think songwriters aren't getting their dues? 

Steve: Ummm, the songwriter thing is not as big of a deal as it used to be. Look, this will sound a little weird and I don't want it to sound like sour grapes because I think it's a sort of a natural thing to happen... the decline of the music business I don't think was necessary inevitable. It's all about digital and all about downloading. I caught my now 26-year-old son when he was 8 on Napster. I was like, "Son, why are you engaging in this activity hat threatens your prospects for a college education?" He was like, "Because most music sucks and I just want the stuff that doesn't suck." I think what we forget about was not everybody was born to be a songwriter. The bar when I was growing up was Bob Dylan. So it was elevated to an art form single handily by one guy and everybody started chasing him. Then people in the business figured out that the Beatles are writing their own songs, Bob Dylan is writing his own songs, they also figured out that's where the money is. We could have a record that sold a marginal amount of records but got you enough notoriety but we made quite a bit of money from the publishing. So everyone wanted to sign a publishing deal, everyone wanted to write songs and I think that's like delivering and pitching in baseball. I think eventually there was a lot of mediocre material out there and people were buying albums and they were becoming more expensive every single day and it wasn't something you could put on and listen to all the way through the entire 35 or 45 minutes. Artists don't take too much responsibility for that, they're too busy running up to the hill and whining about being victims about what's happening with the music business and we were part of its demise. I think it's better if someone is a great singer and goes finds some great songs if they really weren't put here to do that, to do that job. 

Me: Steve, I'm so glad you were here on the Phile. This was a great interview and I hope you'll come back again soon. 

Steve: It's good to be here.

That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Steve Earle for a great interview. The Phile will be back tomorrow with Fergal Lawler and Noel Hogan from the Cranberries. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye. Kiss your brain. 

I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon