Steve Earle's resume has always read like a how-to manual for the ardent revolutionary. The Virginia-born, Texas-reared singer and songwriter lives in Nashville -- though he's contemplating a move to New York -- but he has long considered Chicago a second home, and the city is home to one of his most dedicated fan bases. Earle established himself with the New Traditionalist country of "Guitar Town" (1986); marked himself as one of the hottest up-and-comers of the early '90s with the Bruce Springsteen populism and heartland rock of "Copperhead Road" (1988); then threw it all away by getting himself addicted...
