Coal Country's run at New York's Public Theater has been cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. But Steve Earle is still abundantly enthusiastic about Ghosts of West Virginia, the album that came alongside the production and is premiering exclusively below.
The songs scored him a Drama Desk Awards nomination for outstanding music in a play."We had a hit," Earle, who performed his songs in the play as "a kind of Greek chorus," tells Billboard. "People were buying tickets.