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Each year a poll of the fans is conducted. In the past it was conducted on various discussion groups. This year for the first time it has been conducted on steveearle.net. To view results from each year click that year.
1996 1997 1998 1999 2003 2004

1996

These are the results of the survey of the Steve Earle e-mail list members
completed 22 June 1996 and compiled by Kevin Hawkey (khawkey@lawtonok.net)
The Top 30 Steve Earle Songs:

(the number in parenthesis is the number of first place votes the song received)

1 Guitar Town (2)

2 Copperhead Road (2)

3 The Other Kind (2)

4 I Ain't Ever Satisfied (3)

5 Someday (2)

6 The Rain Came Down

7 Ben McCulloch

8 Hard-Core Troubador

9 Billy Austin (3)

10 Goodbye (1)

11 Angry Young Man

12 Nowhere Road (2)

13 Fearless Heart (1)

14 Feel Alright (1)

15 My Old Friend The Blues (1)

16 Devil's Right Hand

17 Tom Ames’ Prayer (2)

18 Johnny Come Lately (1)

19 Have Mercy (2)

20 Justice in Ontario

21 Even When I’m Blue (1)

22 Billy And Bonnie

23 Nothing But A Child

24 The Week Of Living Dangerously (1)

25 You're Still Standing There

26 Ellis Unit One (2)

27 CCKMP

28 More Than I Can Do

29 Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)

30 Goodbye's All We've Got Left

Other songs receiving 1st place votes that didn't make the top 30 were:

A Little Bit In Love

This Highway’s Mine (Roadmaster)

Overall, Kevin was amazed at how many songs got votes - 71.
Kevin determined that Steve has released 92 songs, and 69 of those got votes.

Two songs that Steve hasn't released got votes:

You Know The Rest (which Steve has only performed live), and

Someone's Got To Do It (a demo from Uncut Gems - not performed by Steve)

The Top Steve albums:

1 Exit 0

2 The Hard Way

3 Train A Comin'

4 I Feel Alright

5 Guitar Town

6 Copperhead Road

No other albums got votes.

Best Cover Of A Steve Earle Song:

1 Tom Ames’ Prayer — Robert Earl Keen

2 Devil's Right Hand — Waylon Jennings

3 Sometimes She Forgets — Travis Tritt

4 Goodbye — Emmylou Harris

tie

5 Someday — Shawn Colvin

5 The Other Kind — Brothers Phelps

Best Cover Song By Steve Earle:

1 Rolling Stones' Dead Flowers

2 Bruce Springsteen's State Trooper

3 Townes Van Zandt's Tecumseh Valley

4 Melodians' Rivers Of Babylon

5 The Beatles' I'm Looking Through You

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