Steve Earle @ Austin's Paramount Theater (pics)

photos by Tim Griffin

Globe and Mail: What chapter are you in now?

Steve Earle: Maybe it’s the third one. This is my 14th studio album. The last five years, since I moved to New York, I feel at home for the first time in my life. I’m 56. It takes living in a place where I can see any movie or see live theatre or see great works of art, and have hundreds of choices in those areas. I need that stimulation now to write.

We continue to track Steve Earle‘s current trip across the country that will eventually see him back home playing shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Town Hall (tickets). Thursday night he played the Paramount Theater in Austin. A set of pictures from that show continues below…