Fans' Pick of Favorites

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.
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1997

These are the results of the survey of the Steve Earle e-mail list members
completed 8 July 1997 and compiled by Kevin Hawkey (khawkey@lawtonok.net)

rank	song or album	rank lastyear
The Top 30 Steve Earle Songs
1	Guitar Town	1
2	Copperhead Road	2
3	The Other Kind	3
4	Goodbye	10
5	My Old Friend The Blues	15
6	Feel Alright	14
7	Someday	5
8	Ellis Unit One	26
9	Johnny Come Lately	18
10	Tom Ames' Prayer	17
11	I Ain't Ever Satisfied	4
12	Billy Austin	9
13	Fearless Heart	13
14 (tie)	Hard-Core Troubador	8
14 (tie)	Devil's Right Hand	16
16	The Rain Came Down	6
17	Ben McCulloch	7
18 (tie)	Nowhere Road	12
18 (tie)	Valentine's Day	---
20	More Than I Can Do	28
21	Have Mercy	19
22	You're Still Standing There	25
23	Sometimes She Forgets	---
24	South Nashville Blues	---
25	Angry Young Man	11
26	Even When I'm Blue	21
27	Goodbye's All We've Got Left	30
28	Hometown Blues	---
29	CCKMP	27
30 (tie)	Justice in Ontario	20
30 (tie)	Mercenary Song	---
30 (tie)	Nothing But A Child	23

The Top Favorite Albums
1	I Feel Alright	4
2	Train A Comin'	3
3	Copperhead Road	6
4	Exit 0	1
5	Guitar Town	5
6	The Hard Way	2
7	Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator	---
8	Ain't Ever Satisfied - The Steve Earle Collection	---
9	BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert	---

Favorite Cover Songs
1	Dead Flowers (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)	1
2	Tecumseh Valley (Townes Van Zandt)	2
3	State Trooper (Bruce Springsteen)	2
4	Six Days On The Road (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery)	---
5	Johnny Too Bad (The Slickers)	---
6	Rivers Of Babylon (B. Crowe, J. McNaughton, G. Reyam, F. Farian)	4
7	I'm Looking Through You (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)	5
8	She's About A Mover (Doug Sahm)	---
9	When Will We Be Married? [traditional]	---
10	Before They Make Me Run (Keith Richards, Michael Philip Jagger)	---

Favorite Songs Covered
1	Goodbye Emmylou Harris	4
2	Tom Ames' Prayer Robert Earl Keen	1
3	Angel Is The Devil SuperSuckers	3
4	Devil's Right Hand Waylon Jennings	2
5 (tie)	Nowhere Road Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings	---
5 (tie)	A Bible And A Gun Jason And The Scorchers	---

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