“This City” by Steve Earle

"This City" turns up on I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, Steve Earle's 2011 album, and producer T-Bone Burnett gave the song a crowd. Earle wrote it on his own and plays acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin and harmonica, while Jay Bellerose drums, Dennis Crouch and Roland Guerin play acoustic bass, Greg Leisz adds pedal steel, Sara Watkins fiddle and Keefus Ciancia mellotron, and Burnett and Jackson Smith handle the electric guitars.

Then there's the brass: Jonathan Gross on tuba, Michael Brown on euphonium, Sammie Williams on trombone and Tracy Griffin on flugelhorn. The vocal credits run deep too, with Burnett, Watkins, Allison Moorer and Tim Robbins singing alongside Earle, and Mike Piersante and Jason Wormer recorded and mixed the lot.

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