12-inch single with a presskit from 1987 – after the March 1986 release of Guitar Town. This was the second single from the debut album – including a live cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper.”

My copy—via the Record Exchange in Salem MA—also included a one page Rolling Stone feature on Earle, but not I’m not sure if that was part of the original press kit or added by an earlier owner.

I’m a bigger fan of later Steve Earle than I am of these early records, to be honest, but I love seeing the early origins of his talent and how they tried to shape it into 80s radio markets.