Exit 0

Exit 0 is the second studio album from American singer-songwriter Steve Earle (credited to Steve Earle & The Dukes), released in 1987. Earle was nominated for a 1988 Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for the album.^[3]

Exit 0
Studio album by Steve Earle & The Dukes
Released	May 18, 1987
Studio	Emerald Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country rock[1]
Length	38:01
Label	MCA
Producer	Tony Brown, Emory Gordy, Jr., Richard Bennett
Steve Earle & The Dukes chronology
Guitar Town (1986) Exit 0 (1987) Copperhead Road (1988)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

The album was recorded digitally, using the Mitsubishi X-800 at Nashville's Emerald Studios. All of the album's ten tracks were written or co-written by Earle. Earle and his band played live shows regularly during breaks in recording.^[4]

Exit 0 is stylistically very similar to its predecessor, Guitar Town, and was Earle's final pure-country album before incorporating hard rock with country on his next releases. It is today described by Allmusic as "livelier stuff than nearly anyone in Nashville was cranking out at the time".

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Earle unless otherwise noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nowhere Road"	Earle, Reno Kling	2:27
2.	"Sweet Little '66"		2:38
3.	"No. 29"		3:30
4.	"Angry Young Man"	Earle, John Porter McMeans	4:24
5.	"San Antonio Girl"		3:06
6.	"The Rain Came Down"	Earle, Michael Woody	4:11
7.	"I Ain't Ever Satisfied"		4:00
8.	"The Week of Living Dangerously"		4:26
9.	"I Love You Too Much"		3:37
10.	"It's All Up to You"	Earle, Harry Stinson	5:42

Personnel

The Dukes

• Bucky Baxter – steel guitar, vocals
• Steve Earle – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica
• Reno Kling – bass guitar
• Mike McAdam – 6- and 12-string electric guitars, vocals
• Ken Moore – organ, synthesizer, vocals
• Harry Stinson – drums, vocals

With:

• John Jarvis – piano
• Emory Gordy, Jr. – mandolin
• Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 6-string bass
• K-Meaux Boudin – accordion

Technical

• Chuck Ainlay – recording, mixing
• Jim DeVault – front cover photography

Chart performance

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	15
U.S. Billboard 200	90
Canadian RPM Top Albums	36

References

1. Tannenbaum, Rob (January 26, 1989). "Steve Earle Copperhead Road". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
2. Allmusic review
3. https://www.grammy.com/awards/30th-annual-grammy-awards
4. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r106386