By Steve Newton
I did my fourth interview with Steve Earle back in February of 1998, when he was touring behind his seventh studio album, El Corazón.
At one point in the conversation we started talking about his battles with drug addiction, and how El Corazón was the first album that he’d recorded entirely clean.
That led me to wonder what he thinks when somebody says that they prefer the music he made while he was high–like his best-selling Copperhead Road album, which went triple-platinum in Canada.
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