''Exit 0'' is the second studio album from American singer-songwriter
Steve Earle (credited to Steve Earle & The Dukes), released in 1987. Earle was nominated for two 1988 Grammy Awards for songs on the album, Best Male Country Vocalist for "Exit 0" and Best Country Song for "Nowhere Road".
The album was
recorded digitally, using the
Mitsubishi X-800 at
Nashville's Emerald Studios. All of the album's ten tracks were written or co-written by Earle. Earle and his band played live shows regularly during breaks in recording.
''Exit 0'' is stylistically very similar to its predecessor, ''
Guitar Town'', and was Earle's final pure-country album before incorporating
hard rock with country on his next releases. It is today described by
Allmusic
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as "livelier stuff than nearly anyone in Nashville was cranking out at the time".
Track listing
All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted.
#"
Nowhere Road" (Earle, Reno Kling) – 2:27
#"
Sweet Little '66" – 2:38
#"No. 29" – 3:30
#"Angry Young Man" (Earle, John Porter McMeans) – 4:24
#"San Antonio Girl" – 3:06
#"The Rain Came Down" (Earle, Michael Woody) – 4:11
#"I Ain't Ever Satisfied" – 4:00
#"The Week of Living Dangerously" – 4:26
#"I Love You Too Much" – 3:37
#"It's All Up to You" (Earle, Harry Stinson) – 5:42
Personnel
;The Dukes
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Bucky Baxter
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–
steel guitar, vocals
*Steve Earle – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica
*Reno Kling – bass guitar
*Mike McAdam – 6- and 12-string electric guitars, vocals
*Ken Moore –
organ, synthesizer, vocals
*
Harry Stinson
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Biography
Stinson's most significant ...
– drums, vocals
With:
*
John Jarvis – piano
*
Emory Gordy, Jr. –
mandolin
*
Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar, electric guitar,
6-string bass
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*K-Meaux Boudin –
accordion
;Technical
*
Chuck Ainlay
Chuck Ainlay is an American record producer and audio engineer. He has worked with Mark Knopfler on much of Knopfler's solo work, in addition to some Dire Straits material. He has 4 Grammy Awards and 5 nominations.
Along with Knopfler and Bob ...
– recording, mixing
*Jim DeVault – front cover photography
Chart performance
References
1987 albums
Steve Earle albums
Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)
Albums produced by Emory Gordy Jr.
Albums produced by Richard Bennett (guitarist)
MCA Records albums
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