Copperhead Road

Steve Earle

Uni Records

Tracks

• Copperhead Road (Earle)
• Snake Oil (Earle)
• Back to the Wall (Earle)
• The Devil's Right Hand (Earle)
• Johnny Come Lately (Earle)
• Even When I'm Blue (Earle)
• You Belong to Me (Earle)
• Waiting on You (Earle / Bennett)
• Once You Love (Earle / Crane)
• Nothing but a Child (Earle)

• The Devil's Right Hand (Earle)
• Fearless Heart (Earle)
• San Antonio Girl (Earle)
• Nobody but You / Continental Trailways Bus (Earle)
• My Baby Worships Me (Earle)
• Wheels (Hillman / Parsons)
• The Week of Living Dangerously (Earle)
• Johnny Come Lately (Earle)
• Brown and Root (Harris / Crowell)
• I Love You Too Much (Earle)
• It's All Up to You (Earle / Stinson)
• Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
• Copperhead Road (Earle)
• I Ain't Ever Satisfied (Earle)
• Dead Flowers (Jagger / Richards)
• Little Sister (Trooper)
• Guitar Town (Earle)

On the original album:

• Steve Earle - guitar, harmonica, mandolin, vocals
• Donny Roberts - guitar, bass
• Bill Lloyd - guitar
• Bucky Baxter - pedal steel, dobro
• Ken Moore - synthesizer, organ
• John Jarvis - piano
• Kelly Looney - bass
• Kurt Custer - drums
• Neil MacColl - mandolin (on Johnny Come Lately)
• The Pogues (on Johnny Come Lately)
  Terry Woods - cittern
  Phil Chevron - guitar, vocals
  Jem Finer - banjo
  James Fearnley - accordion
  Spider Stacy - tin whistle, vocals
  Shane MacGowan - banjo, bodhran
  Darryl Hunt - bass
  Andrew Ranken - drums
• Telluride (on Nothing But A Child)
  Sam Bush - mandolin
  Jerry Douglas - dobro
  Mark O'Connor - violin
  Edgar Meyer - bass violin
  
• John Cowan, Maria McKee, Radney Foster - background vocals

• Digitally recording - Joe Hardy
• Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN
• Johnny Come Lately recording - Chris Birkett
• Johnny Come Lately recorded at Livingstone Studios, London
• Second engineer (Memphis) - Mark J.Coddington, Tom Luane
• Second engineer (London) - Julius Croaol, George Shilling
• Pre-production engineer - Andy Byrd, Dale Brown, Jack Burke
• Mastering - Bob Ludwig at Master Disc
• Art direction - Simon Levy
• Design - Jeff Morris
• Photography - Empire Studio
• Original illustration - Jim O'Connor
• Patch - June Beard

The tracks on the 2008 deluxe edition bonus CD are from the following sources.

The Devil's Right Hand, Fearless Heart, San Antonio Girl, Nobody but You / Continental Trailways Bus, My Baby Worships Me, Wheels, The Week of Living Dangerously, Johnny Come Lately, Brown and Root, I Love You Too Much and It's All Up to You - live, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 19, 1987

Nebraska - solo, live, 1988

Copperhead Road, I Ain't Ever Satisfied, Dead Flowers, Little Sister and Guitar Town - live, Calgary, Canada, April 1989

Related releases

The Copperhead Road album was subsequently included in the 3 CD set:

• Chronicles, Steve Earle, 2005