Steve Earle grapples with mortality in CD, novel

 

Published: May 23, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't part of any master plan that Steve Earle released a CD and his debut novel virtually simultaneously and with the same titles, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive."

The novel, named for the last single released by Hank Williams before his death, took eight years of work and features Williams' ghost as a main character. There's no obvious link to the subject matter of his new songs, b...


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