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Steve Earle with special guest Allison Moorer

Thursday 17th January 2008, 7.30pm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Auditorium

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Widely regarded as one of America's greatest living songwriters, Steve Earle recently celebrated his move from Nashville to New York with his latest studio release Washington Square Serenade.

A tribute partly to the city's 1960s folk-revival heyday, partly to its 21st-century melting-pot, and partly to Earle's wife, fellow singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, the album was produced by the Dust Brothers' John King, marrying Earle's bare-knuckle eloquence and sinewy lyricism with hip-hop and Latin sounds.

Moorer's career, after a childhood blighted by her parents' murder-suicide, charts a degree of triumph over adversity rare even in country music circles. It's only apt, therefore, that her most recent work, on 2004's The Duel and 2006's Getting Somewhere, has seen her transcend the genre from which she first emerged, setting her arresting smoky alto and increasingly assured songwriting amidst a potent blend of rock, blues, folk and classic pop.