title: Guitar Town
text: Guitar Town is the debut studio album from American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released on March 5, 1986. It topped the Billboard country album charts, and the title song reached #7 on the country singles charts. Earle was also nominated for two 1987 Grammy Awards, Best Male Country Vocalist and Best Country Song, for the title track.
  
  Production
  The album was recorded in late 1985 and early 1986 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Sound Stage Studio. Overdubs were later recorded at Nashville's Emerald Studios. It was one of the first country music albums to be recorded digitally, utilizing the Mitsubishi X-800. Each of the album's ten tracks was either written or co-written by Earle.
  
  Reception and legacy
  In 2003, the album was ranked number 489 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2012, the magazine ranked it at #482 on a revised list, calling it "the rocker's version of country, packed with songs about hard living in the Reagan Eighties."
  
  In 2006, it ranked 27th on CMT's "40 Greatest Albums in Country Music". In 2016, the album was re-released as a 30th Anniversary Edition with a corresponding tour.
  
  The title track was later covered by Emmylou Harris.  "Someday" was later covered by Shawn Colvin on her cover album, Cover Girl.
  
  My Old Friend The Blues was covered by The Proclaimers.
  
  Track listing
  All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted
  
  Personnel
   Steve Earle – guitar, vocals
  The Dukes
   Bucky Baxter – pedal steel guitar, guitar on "State Trooper"
   Richard Bennett – guitar, 6-string bass, slap bass, associate producer
   Ken Moore – organ, synthesizer, keyboards on "State Trooper"
   Emory Gordy, Jr. – bass, mandolin, producer
   Harry Stinson – drums, vocals
  Reno Kling - bass on "State Trooper"
  Michael McAdam - guitar on "State Trooper"
  Additional musicians
   Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar on "Fearless Heart" and "Someday"
   John Barlow Jarvis – synthesizer, piano
   Steve Nathan – synthesizer
  Technical
  Chuck Ainlay - recording, mixing
  Alan Messer - photography
  
  Charts
  
  Weekly charts
  
  Year-end charts
  
  Singles
  
  Certifications
  
  References
  
  External links
  
  Guitar Town (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
  
  1986 debut albums
  Steve Earle albums
  Albums produced by Emory Gordy Jr.
  Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)
  Albums produced by Richard Bennett (guitarist)
  MCA Records albums