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I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is an album by Steve Earle, released in 2011. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “This City”, on 1 list with a best position of #196.
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, Steve Earle's 14th studio album, came out on New West Records in 2011 with T Bone Burnett producing, and it plays like a veteran Nashville songwriter emptying out his desk drawers. Earle took the title from a Hank Williams song, which tags along as a download-only bonus track, and hung the same name on a novel he wrote as well. Every other song is his own.
Four of them started life on other people's projects. "This City" was written for David Simon's Treme, the HBO drama Earle also acted in, and it earned a Grammy nomination; an earlier take on "Lonely Are the Free" ran over the closing credits of Tim Blake Nelson's 2010 film Leaves of Grass, where Earle had a small role; "God Is God" and "I Am a Wanderer" were meant for Joan Baez's Day After Tomorrow. Burnett wraps it all in a dusty, lived-in alt-country glow, a record with death in its title that still has plenty of fight in it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This City | 1 | #196 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Waitin' on the Sky | 2 | #44 | – | 2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.