The Low Highway
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| The Low Highway | ||||
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| Released | April 16, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | New West | |||
| Producer | Steve Earle, Ray Kennedy | |||
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The Low Highway is the 15th studio album by singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2013. The album features two songs co-written by Earle and Lucia Micarelli: "Love's Gonna Blow My Way", "After Mardi Gras". Two songs from the album, "After Mardi Gras" and "That All You Got?", are featured in the HBO TV Series Treme.[1][2]
The album debuted at No. 12 on Top Country Albums, and No. 39 on Billboard 200, selling 11,000 copies in the first week.[3] It has sold 42,000 copies in the US as of February 2015.[4]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100[5] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| American Songwriter | [7] |
| The Guardian | [8] |
| Rolling Stone |  [9] |
| The Telegraph | [2] |
The album garnered generally positive critical response. Neil Spencer of The Guardian wrote, Earle's "playing is immaculate and the songcraft admirable".[8]
The song, "Invisible", was nominated for Best American Roots Song at the 56th Grammy Awards.[10]
Track listing
All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted.
- "The Low Highway" – 3:59
- "Calico County" – 2:59
- "Burnin' It Down" – 2:57
- "That All You Got?" – 3:00
- "Love's Gonna Blow My Way" (Earle, Lucia Micarelli) – 2:49
- "After Mardi Gras" (Earle, Lucia Micarelli) – 4:04
- "Pocket Full of Rain" – 3:15
- "Invisible" – 4:19
- "Warren Hellman's Banjo" – 1:47
- "Down the Road Pt. II" – 2:36
- "21st Century Blues" – 3:40
- "Remember Me" – 4:35
