LaGRANGE — Eight songs into his concert at the Sweetland Amphitheatre here, after winding up “Copperhead Road,” perhaps his most beloved song, veteran country/rocker Steve Earle looked at his watch and said, “See how that worked out? Those of you on paper can now go home and be legal before your f---ing ankle monitor goes off. The rest of us are going to be here a while.”
Indeed. Earle and his band The Dukes played 19 more songs after “Copperhead Road,” mixing in some of Earle’s classic hits among new material he and the Dukes recorded during the coronavirus shutdown.
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