01	Guitar Town						02:33
	02	Goodbye's All We've Got Left						03:16
	03	Hillbilly Highway						03:36
	04	Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)						03:59
	05	My Old Friend The Blues						03:07
	06	Someday						03:46
	07	Think It Over						02:13
	08	Fearless Heart						04:04
	09	Little Rock & Roller						04:49
	10	Down The Road						02:37

MCD 01888 DMCL 1888 MCAD-31305 1986 MCA Records, Inc. Produced by Emery Gordy, Jr. and Tony Brown Associate Producer: Richard Bennet The Dukes: Richard Bennet: Guitars, 6-string bass and Slap bass Bucky Baxter: Pedal Steel Ken Moore: Organ and Synthesizer Emery Gordy, Jr: Bass and Mandolin Harry Stinson: Drums and Vocals with: John Jarvis: Piano and Synthesizer Paul Franklin: Pedal Steel on "Fearless Heart" and "Someday" Steve Nathan: Synthesizer Digitally recorded at Sound Stage Recording Studio using a Mitsubishi X-800 32 track digital Recorded by Chuck Ainlay Overdubs recorded by Steve Tillisch, Chuck Ainlay, and Russ Martin at Emerald Studio Mixed by Chuck Ainlay at The Castle Second Engineers: Russ Martin, Mark J. Coddington, Tim Kish, Keith Odle, and Robbie Rose CD Master Tape prepared by Glenn Meadows and Milan Bogdan at Masterfonics using the JVC Digital Audio Mastering System CD Art Direction: Simon Levy CD Design: Camille Engel Advertising CD Coordination: Katie Gillon, Sherri Halford Photography: Alan Messer Special thanks to Silverlin - Goldline Music and Gibson Guitars Harry Stinson plays P.D. Drums On Steve Earle's first major American tour following the release of his debut album, Guitar Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill with Dwight Yoakum one night and the Replacements another, and one listen to the album explains why — while the music was country through and through, Earle showed off enough swagger and attitude to intimidate anyone short of Keith Richards. While Earle's songs bore a certain resemblance to the Texas Outlaw ethos (think Waylon Jennings in "Lonesome, Orn'ry and Mean" mode), they displayed a literate anger and street-smart snarl that set him apart from the typical Music Row hack, and no one in Nashville in 1986 was able (or willing) to write anything like the title song, a hilarious and harrowing tale of life on the road ("Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still can/Got a two pack habit and motel tan") or the bitterly unsentimental account of small town life "Someday" ("You got to school where you learn to read and write/so you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life"), the latter of which may be the best Bruce Springsteen song the Boss didn't write. And even when Earle gets a bit teary-eyed on "My Old Friend the Blues" and "Little Rock 'n' Roller," he showed off a battle-scarred heart that was tougher and harder-edged than most of his competition. Guitar Town is slightly flawed by an overly tidy production from Emory Gordy Jr. and Tony Brown as well as a band that never hit quite as hard as Earle's voice, and Earle would make many stronger and more ambitious records in the future, but Guitar Town was his first shot at showing a major audience what he could do, and he hit a bull's-eye — it's perhaps the strongest and most confident debut album any country act released in the 1980s.