Steve Earle & the Dukes Tickets

Singer-songwriter, actor, author, political activist, producer – Steve Earle is one of America's greatest living storytellers. His tales, encapsulated in songs such as The Galway Girl, Hard-Core Troubadour,  Jerusalem , Goodbye’s All We Got Left , Guitar Town, and his anthemic Copperhead Road, have filled 14 albums and earned him 3 Grammy awards. Two years ago he came to Bluesfest solo, nailed it and sold-out his sideshows to boot.

Now he’s back ...and this time he’s bringing The Dukes along for the ride. He’s showcasing his 15th studio album, The Low Highway -  a road record written about what he experienced from the window of his tour bus while travelling across the United States. Backed by a new lineup of The Dukes (& Duchess) featuring The Mastersons (Chris Masterson on guitars and wife Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle and vocals), Kelly Looney on bass and Will Rigby on drums, Steve Earle rolls through a bumper taster from this new album and his bulging back catalogue, his Dukes providing “a rustic soundtrack laced with an aching fiddle, twangy pedal steel and ragged guitar” – Edmonton Journal

A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, STEVE EARLE quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and immediately established the term “New Country.” What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the biting hard rock of Copperhead Road (1988), the minimalist beauty of Train A Comin’ (1995), the politically charge masterpiece, Jerusalem (2002) and the three Grammy Award Winning albums The Revolution Starts…Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007) and Townes (2009).

Steve Earle and The Dukes have been on a kick-ass tour on the USA and Europe ... now it’s our turn !! Watch out AUSTRALIA – these guys (and gal !) ROCK!!

Special Guest on this tour is Australia’s own KASEY CHAMBERS, the undisputed First Lady of Australian alternative country music. A true home-grown star, KASEY CHAMBERS has scooped up a regular swag of APRA and ARIA awards to go with her seven Golden Guitars at the Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth.  Her albums have that timeless appeal:  Barricades & Brickwalls (2002), Wayward Angel (2004), Carnival (2006), Rattlin’ Bones (2008) all made it to Number 1 in the charts.: her later albums Little Bird (2010), Storybook (2011) and Wreck & Ruin (2012) showcase a diverse spread of the musical style that underpins Kasey’s glittering career.