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Steve Earle Still Tough As Nails
Vancouver
August 16, 2000
The fact that Citygigs (5'10 in heels, thankyouverymuch) was referred to as "the little lady" at one point in the evening speaks volumes about Friday's Steve Earle and The Dukes show at the Commodore. Earle has spent the last 20 years delivering music to the achy-breaky hearts of the world, all the while maintaining a tough-as-nails reputation.
To see a living legend such as Steve Earle perform is to take in an entire life's worth of hard livin'. Earle's troubles with women and drugs are legendary, and listening to his music, you can't help but be glad for them. The five-times married roots-rocker's songs are laden with the same fuck-you attitude that probably landed him in trouble in the first place. From start to finish, Friday night's show proved one thing, there ain't no screwin' with Steve Earle.
 Opening with the title track from this year's 'Transcendental Blues', the Texans from hell delivered a set which would have left even the most die-hard fan fulfilled. The three hour show included favorites such as 'Ain't Never Satisfied', 'TaneyTown' and Earle's crossover hit, 'Copperhead Road'.
Amazingly, Earle's music is at once emotionally honest and shit-kickingly tough. The fact that Steve Earle can deliver a couplet like "As the mountains touch the sky/ Feel so lonesome I could cry" and not get his ass kicked by the crowd just proves how hard he rocks. Such is the genuine country appeal of Steve Earle. One minute he's rocking a song about heroin and jail, the next he's delivering the beautiful lullaby of 'Not Alone Tonight'.
 The crowd was composed in equal parts of retired bikers (escaping their suburban lifestyles) and men your mother told you never to accept rides from, the last of the manly-men. At a time when a 20-year-old vixen in leather pants and a halter top can claim supremacy in the country charts, it was refreshing to see the big-bellied badasses doin' their thing at the Commodore Roadhouse.
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