Steve Earle releases Bush-bashing album ahead of election
Country star Steve Earle has rushed to release his new album ahead of November's presidential elections in America - because he hopes it will help unseat President George W Bush.
Earle stands strongly against the policies of the Republican leader - particularly the controversial war in Iraq - and he clearly voices his disapproval on a range of tracks on 'The revolution starts now'.
He says: "I'm an unapologetic lefty. There is no excuse for anyone to go hungry in the richest country in the world or without health care. I wanted the record to be about a lot of issues around the election. But I wrote it in a hurry, and what's most p***ed about right now is the war.
"This record was about a deadline. No-one could have predicted the amount of damage Bush would do to this country in four years. I wouldn't have believed it. I thought, 'Oh God, another idiot. We survived his father, though. We can survive this.' But this is a totally different beast.
"I wrote 'The revolution starts now' last year at the end of a tour. Then I went to Australia in April; I wrote 'Rich man's war' on that run. And not getting those two songs out before the election - I couldn't live with that."
