Stacey Earle

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Stacey Earle (born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on September 25, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter (and sister of musician Steve Earle who has joined her in her music) . As well as solo recordings, she records as the duo Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart with Mark Stuart. Both Earle and Stuart have been members of Steve Earle & The Dukes . Raised in San Antonio, Texas, Earle first taught herself to play a ukulele. She was given a guitar as a Christmas present when she was 16 years old, and, when she became a mother at 17, she continued to play and sing at home, developing her own style of finger picking. When she was 29 years old, she moved to Nashville to live with her brother Steve Earle and sang backing vocals and played rhythm guitar on his 1991 album The Hard Way, and for the subsequent world tour. She appeared on her brother's subsequent albums: Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator and Transcendental Blues. After returning from tour, she wrote songs and performed them at writer's nights in Nashville. Later, she set up her own songwriters' night to get some more time on stage. During this time, she met fellow guitarist and singer Mark Stuart who became her partner in running the events and then later became her second husband. Earle signed a contract with Nashville's Ten Ten Music Group as a staff songwriter and received notice for her song "For Years", which appeared on Sammy Kershaw's 1996 CD Politics, Religion and Her. Her first album, Simple Gearle (1999), was creat

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