NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Lucinda's: Steve Earle

We are proud to present this installment of our No Depression Session series in partnership with NYC honky-tonk Lucinda’s and Hiatus Tequila. When Lucinda Williams teamed up with industry lifers Laura McCarthy and Kelley Swindall to create a Southern country bar in NYC’s East Village with a killer jukebox, we knew we needed to find a way to work together.

Backed by his acoustic guitar and later an octave mandolin, Steve Earle pulled three songs from across more than five decades of writing. Between songs he reflected on his connections to the music that shaped him, from zydeco legend Clifton Chenier, whose recent tribute album earned Earle a GRAMMY alongside a long list of collaborators, to the Texas songwriting circles where he first crossed paths with Lucinda Williams as teenagers.

The session closed with “City of Immigrants,” written after Earle moved to New York in 2005. Introducing the song, he told a story about a neighborhood deli owner named Mr. Kim who learned Spanish late in life so he could speak with his employees. “All of us are immigrants,” he sang. “Every daughter, every son.”

Setlist:
"Copperhead Road"
"I Don't Trust Happiness"
"City of Immigrants"