Steve Earle Returns to His Roots with New Album and Rehearsal Concert for Outlaw Country

The new album from Steve Earle represents a musical homecoming for the well-travelled troubadour.

Growing up in Texas during the ’70s, Earle had a ringside seat to the emergence of Outlaw era elders Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Billy Joe Shaver. After migrating to Nashville, he learned his trade first-hand from masters like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt.

“So You Wannabe An Outlaw,” out on June 16, is an unabashed love letter to Waylon’s 1972 album “Honky Tonk Heroes” and features duets with Willie, Johnny Bush (writer of “Whiskey River”), and Miranda Lambert. To celebrate the album’s release and his 10th anniversary as host of the weekly “Hardcore Troubadour Radio” show on Outlaw Country, Steve invited a handful of SiriusXM listeners to a rehearsal show for his upcoming tour stop at SoundCheck Studios in East Nashville.

Airing as a special two-hour episode of “Hardcore Troubadour Radio,” the rehearsal concert includes some of the first live performances of songs from the album, as well as highlights of his three-decade-plus recording career, including tracks from his breakthrough “Guitar Town” album and “Copperhead Road.”

Backed by his trusty Dukes, featuring the husband and wife team of Chris Masterson on guitars and Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle (who also record and perform as The Mastersons), along with Brad Pemberton on drums, Ricky Ray Jackson on pedal steel, and Kelley Looney on bass, the exclusive radio performance premieres on Friday, June 16, at 8pm ET.