at the Musikfest Cafe website<\/a> or at the box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.<\/p>\nIt will mark the 40th anniversary of his 1986 breakthrough debut album, “Guitar Town,” which hit No. 1 on the Country albums chart and sold platinum.<\/p>\n
Its title track hit No. 7 on the Country Singles chart, and the song “Goodbye’s All We’ve Got Left” hit No. 8. <\/p>\n
But Earle had his biggest commercial success with his third album, 1988’s “Copperhead Road,” which achieved gold status and hit No. 7 on the Country chart.<\/p>\n
Hailed as one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the past four decades, Earle, 71, is a master of country, rock, blues and rockabilly.<\/p>\n
3 Grammy wins, 35 more albums<\/p>\n
Since “Copperhead Road,” he has released 19 more studio albums, seven live albums and nine compilations, with 31 of them hitting the Top 20 on the Country chart. <\/p>\n
In all, he’s been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards. His 2004 disc \u201cThe Revolution Starts Now\u201d won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk album. <\/p>\n
His 2008 album “Washington Square Serenade” and 2009 album \u201cTownes,\u201d a collection of songs by the late Townes Van Zant, both won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk\/Americana Album.<\/p>\n
He’s had 11 singles hit the Top 40 on various charts.<\/p>\n
His most album was 2024’s live album, “Alone Again (Live).”<\/p>\n
For years, Earle also was host of \u201cHardcore Troubadour\u201d for the SiriusXM Radio Outlaw Country Channel.<\/p>\n
Earle also played Musikfest Cafe with Shawn Colvin in 2014, and a show that celebrated the 25th anniversary of \u201cCopperhead Road\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n
He played Sands Bethlehem Event Center in 2013, and headlined the Allentown Bluegrass Festival at Allentown Fairgrounds in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A three-time Grammy Award-winning singer will perform at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[71393,153,7771,155,154,71394,71395,71396,71397,71398],"class_list":["post-157650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-artsquest-and-concerts","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-and-concerts","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-musikfest-cafe-and-concerts","tag-steve-earle-and-artsquest","tag-steve-earle-and-bethlehem","tag-steve-earle-and-musikfest-cafe","tag-steve-earle-and-steelstacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}