Steve Earle to play the Englert Theatre May 3

02-26-2008 | Music

Musician Steve Earle will play at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City May 3 in support of his new album, Washington Square Serenade, it was announced today. His wife, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, will be the opening act.

“It’ll just be Steve Earle himself, a solo acoustic show,” said Englert managing director Sean Fredericks.

Tickets are now available to members of SteveEarle.com; tickets for the general public go on sale March 3. Admission is $33 for the theater’s first eight rows and $26 for all other seats.

Earle and Moorer recently moved to New York, to the very Greenwich Village street on which the famous cover shot for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962) was taken. His new record is tribute to that era, Earle tells Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis.

“That period changed pop music,” Earle says. “It made lyrics much more important. Rock & roll could have become a subgenre of pop if it hadn't been for that literary aspect, which completely came out of a four-block area in New York City in one brief instant of time.”

Washington Square Serenade concludes with Earle’s version of Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole,” the opening theme for this season’s HBO series “The Wire.” Earle also has a recurring role on the show.

“I play a redneck recovering addict,” Earle told DeCurtis, “so it’s not acting.”

Moorer's new album, Mockingbird, features her take on several cover songs, both well-known and obscure.

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