I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive

Steve Earle wurde 1955 in Monroe, Virginia, geboren und und ist in San Antonio, Texas, aufgewachsen. 1986 veröffentlichte er sein erstes Album, Guitar Town. 2008 wurde er mit dem Grammy-Award ausgezeichnet. Earle ist ein entschiedener Gegner der Todesstrafe und engagierter politischer Aktivist, seine Texte werden vom konservativen Amerika als "unpatriotisch" kritisiert. I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive ist sein erster Roman. Earle lebt mit seiner siebten Ehefrau, der Musikerin Allison Moorer, und dem gemeinsamen Sohn in New York.

"Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades" Patti Smith "... a doctor, a Mexican girl, an Irish priest, the ghost of Hank Williams, and JFK the day before he dies. This subtle and dramatic book is the work of a brilliant songwriter who has moved from song to orchestral ballad with astonishing ease" Michael Ondaatje "A rich, raw mix of American myth and hard social reality, of faith and doubt, always firmly rooted in a strong sense of character" Charles Frazier "Steve Earle writes like a shimmering neon angel." Kinky Friedman "With this book Earle seems to have provided as good an explanation as any for the morbid appeal of country music. To devotees such as Doc, (Hank) Williams's songs are a kind of cosmic sponge, capable of absorbing any amount of human misery before pouring it all back "in that heartrending wail that got down in your bones like a cold wet day". And though the novel comes no closer to establishing the facts of Hank Williams's death, it certainly reveals a good deal of truth behind it" -- Alfred Hickling Guardian