“I could begin this review by invoking one or two of the more renowned transcendentalists of the 19th century. You know how it would it go: "In *Walden*, his masterpiece of transcendent ideology, Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'I went to the woods because I wished--" I don't even need to finish the sentence, do I? Quoting from Ralph Waldo Emerson's *Nature* might be more tactful, but barely. His lectur”
“Steve Earle is all over the map on his new album, and not just Tennessee or even the South. Transcendental Blues is an intermittently twangy, often trippy and, yes, generally transcendent outing. The perspicacious Earle references Indian music on the title track, a droning, modal blues for the ages, and assays a Celtic-bluegrass hybrid on […]”
