Song · Steve Earle
“Telephone Road” by Steve Earle
From the album El corazón (1997)
“Telephone Road” by Steve Earle appears on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 1997 on the album El corazón. Its best result is #248 on The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,847 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Telephone Road" rolls in on El Corazón, the seventh studio album from the American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 1997. Earle wrote it alone and sings it, strumming acoustic guitar alongside Mark Stuart, and the crew behind him turns it into a party: Kelley Looney on bass, Brady Blade on drums, percussion and tambourine, David Steele on electric guitar, Micheal Smotherman on organ, Jim Hoke honking on baritone sax, and Kathleen Cotter, Cheri Knight and Elisa Sanders clapping along.
Ray Kennedy recorded and mixed it, with Patrick Earle assisting on the engineering. When the Associated Press music writers later picked the finest pop records of the 1990s, the album around it made their top ten.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 678 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2010 | 763 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2022 | 613 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 248 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 347 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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