Steve sits down with the very cool Colin Firth, with his killer list of favorite tracks.  Check out Colin's list below.

Fela Kuti / "Water No get Enemy" / Best Of Album

Spoon / "Back to the Life" / Kill the Moonlight

Kelly Joe Phelps / "River Rat Jimmy" / Shine-Eye Mr. Zen

John Martyn / "Bless the Weather" / Bless the Weather

Bonnie Prince Billy / "No Bad News" / The Letting Go

Paul Kossof / "Time Away"

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Steve sits down with singer, songwriter, musician, Danielle Evin. Her new self-titled album is now out on LateralView Records (Sony BMG). She joins Farm Aid this weekend in its annual benefit concert in Camden, NJ.

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This Sunday, September 24: It’s the last weekend of the month, so it’s time for Steve’s DJ show.

News: See Steve at Farm Aid’s annual benefit concert, which is taking place in Camden, NJ on Saturday, September 30th. In October: Steve will join Moby and Chuck D in Acting Up: Music Activism 2006, a panel hosted by the CMJ Music Marathon, an annual festival, drawing over 10,000 professionals from all sectors of the music business, who converge on New York to discover the best new music and debate today’s music business challenges. The panel will discuss the ups and downs of fighting for causes and what happens when musicians turn political.

Tom Petty / Jack / Highway Companion
WolfMother / The Joker & The Thief / WolfMother
Tandy / Did You Think I Was Gone / Did You Think I was Gone
Sonic Youth / Do You Believe in Rapture / Rather Ripped
Alejandro Escovedo / Notes On Air / The Boxing Mirror
Allison Moorer / If It's Just for Today / Getting Somewhere
Bob Dylan / Some Day Baby / Modern Times
Plus a bonus track from one of Steve's favorites, AudioSlave.

 This week on The Steve Earle Show brought to you by New West Records, Steve talks to author Michael Ondaatje, who has written what Steve considers to be his favorite book of all-time, Coming Through Slaughter.  Philip Michael Ondaatje, is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient.  Playlist:

• Lord Beginner, "Victory Test Match"
• Steve Earle, "Johnny Too Bad"
• Louis Armstrong
• Ron Hynes, "Atlantic Blue"
• Oh Susannah, "Back Dirt Road"
• Jesse DeNatale, "All In the Name'
• Ani DiFranco

 This week on The Steve Earle Show brought to you by New West Records, Steve's guest is musician Jihad Jerry.  Better known as Jerry Casale, co-founding one of the most popular bands of the new wave era, Devo. Jerry has re-invented himself as Jihad Jerry and joins Steve to talk about music, politics and his new album "Mine Is Not a Holy War."  Playlist:

• Jihad Jerry, "The Time Is Now" (Mine Is Not a Holy War)
• Heaven 17, "Facist Groove Thing"
• David Bowie, "Big Brother/Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family"
• Isley Brothers, "Fight the Power"
• The Clash, "Rock the Casba" (Combat Rock)
• Jihad Jerry, "Find Out" (Mine Is Not a Holy War)
• Devo, "Beautiful World" (New Traditionalists)

 This week on The Steve Earle Show brought to you by New West Records, Steve talks to one of his all-time favorite authors, Nick Tosches.  Nick Tosches was born (1949) in Newark, New Jersey, and raised by wolves from the other side. Through nepotism he became a barroom porter at the age of fourteen. Casting this career to the wind in his quest for creative fulfillment, he became a paste-up artist for the Lovable Underwear Company in New York City. On January 12, 1972, he went to lunch and never came back, drifting south to Florida, where, among other things, he worked as a snake-hunter for the Miami Serpentarium. After being bit on the shin one morning, he decided to forsake all further employmnet, and thus became a writer of poetry and prose.  Playlist:

• The Jaynetts, "Sally, Go 'round the Roses"
• Chicago Jimmy Rogers, "Sloppy Drunk"
• Dean Martin, "Ain't That a Kick in the Head"
• Jerry Lee Lewis, "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee"
• Phil Phillips, "Sea of Love"
• Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, "Shop Around"
• The Rolling Stones, "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

 This week on The Steve Earle Show brought to you by New West Records, Steve dedicates this DJ show to the music of the anthemic Olympia, WA-based punk trio Sleater-Kinney, who have recently decided to go on "indefinate hiatus."  Playlist:

• "Be Yr Mama" (Sleater-Kinney)
• "Heart Attack" (Call the Doctor)
• "Words and Guitar" (Dig Me Out)
• "Start Together" (The Hot Rock)
• "Tapping" (Get Up EP)
• "You're No Rock N' Roll Fun" (All Hands On the Bad One)
• "Faraway" (One Beat)
• "Modern Girl" (The Woods)
• "The Fox" (The Woods)
• "Jumpers" (The Woods)
• "Milkshake N' Honey" (All Hands On the Bad One)

 This week on The Steve Earle Show brought to you by New West Records, Steve talks to singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn.  Immensely popular in his native Canada, Bruce Cockburn has found only cult success south of the border, in spite of a rich, varied body of work and considerable critical nods. He has won numerous Juno Awards and has kept the quality control on most of his albums at a high level.  Playlist:

• Bruce Cockburn, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher (Live in-studio)" (Stealing Fire)
• Rasputina, "Gingerbread Coffin" (Cabin Fever)
• Ani DiFranco, "Out of Range" (Carnegie Hall)
• Manu Chao, "Clandestino" (Clandestino)
• M.I.A., "Amazon" (Arubar)
• Bruce Cockburn, "Different When it Comes to You (Live in-studio)" (Life Short Call Now)