Steve Earle: Self-Professed Newspaper Addict

By: E&P Staff Steve Earle used to shoot drugs. Now he mainlines the latest news. Like Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, Phil Ochs, and many other social critics before him, Earle is a self-professed newspaper "addict." He is also one of the best songwriters of his generation, a playwright, political activist, ex-con, fiction writer, and star of the Amos Poe documentary, Just an American Boy, to be released in movie theaters this month.

To read E&P's interview with Earle, click here.