The Devil's Right Hand: An Introduction to Steve Earle (2001)

About this title: An 18-song sampler of Steve Earle's MCA years and drawn from the albums Guitar Town (1986), Exit 0 (1987), Copperhead Road (1988), The Hard Way (1990), and the 1991 live set Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator, Devil's Right Hand manages at once to capture the tone and feel of Earle's early work without necessarily choosing the best songs from the period, making this an adequate introduction but hardly more than that. Earle, of course, was his own worst enemy during the 1980s, battling drug addiction and countless personal demons along with record companies and authority figures everywhere (an ... read more

Tracks:

1. My Old Friend the Blues [Earle]
2. Fearless Heart [Earle]
3. Little Rock 'n' Roller [Earle]
4. Someday [Earle]
5. Little Sister [Trooper]
6. Sweet Little '66 [Earle]
7. San Antonio Girl [Earle]
8. The Rain Came Down [Earle/Woody]
9. The Devil's Right Hand [Earle]
10. Even When I'm Blue [Earle]
11. You Belong to Me [Earle]
12. The Other Kind [Earle]
13. Hopeless Romantics [Earle]
14. Billy Austin [Earle]
15. Regular Guy [Earle]
16. Close Your Eyes [Earle]
17. She's About a Mover [Live] [Sahm]
18. Dead Flowers [Live] [Jagger/Richards]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.