Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris play Earle's song "Goodbye" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Camp Winnarainbow benefit concert at Herbst Theater in San Francisco, California on September 29, 2022. Goodbye appeared on Steve Earle's fifth studio album, Train A Comin' (1995), and then on Emmylou Harris' eighteenth studio album, Wrecking Ball (1995). Joining them in this performance were Chris Masterson (guitar) and Eleanor Whitmore (fiddle).

Earle and Harris, who were both in town for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, performed as part of a songwriters' circle at Toward The Fun(ds): A Concert Benefitting Camp Winnarainbow. The camp, founded by Wavy Gravy, is focused on circus, juggling, acting, and clown performance. It provides scholarships to families in need to keep the camp open to all children. To support these efforts, please visit https://www.campwinnarainbow.org/donate/.

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Goodbye lyrics:

I remember holding on to you
All them long and lonely nights that I put you through
Somewhere in there, I'm sure I made you cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
One place I may never go in my life again
Was I off somewhere or just too high?
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

[Instrumental passage]

I only miss you every now and then
Like a soft breeze blowing up from the Caribbean
Most Novembers, I break down and cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
That's one place I'll never go in my life again
Was I off somewhere or maybe just too high?
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

No I can't remember if we said goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye

Written by Stephen Fain Earle

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Steve Earle official bio:

Steve Earle remembers exactly when he knew he wanted to be a songwriter. He was barely a teenager, growing up in Schertz, Texas, looking over a copy of a Beatles record. “The little line in parentheses next to ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand,’” said ‘Lennon-McCartney,’ Earle says. “I said, ‘I know who those guys are.’ And then I figured out that they wrote the song. And so that was when I started, you know, trying to write songs. They all had girls’ names for titles for a long time.”

Music was a big deal in Earle’s family and his dad, an air traffic controller, played piano. “My dad wouldn’t let me have an electric guitar,” he says. As a teen, he discovered Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Paul Simon and the Johnny Cash Show. “I always say my job was invented by Bob Dylan,” says Earle. “I’m a firm believer that rock & roll only becomes an art-form because of the lyrics. If it hadn’t been for Bob Dylan wanting to be John Lennon and John Lennon wanting to be Bob Dylan, it wouldn’t have been cranked up to the level of literature that makes it OK for rock & roll to be taken seriously.”

Jerry Jeff is Earle’s 22nd album. He’s released nearly an album a year since getting sober in the mid 1990s, LPs ranging from bluegrass to blues to folk to country. One of America’s most gifted living songwriters, he is singing better than he ever has, working harder. At the moment, he’s writing two books, his second play, and hosts his long running The Steve Earle Show: Hardcore Troubadour Radio on Sirius XM. Throughout the pandemic, he also hosted Steve Earle’s Guitar Town, a YouTube series about his massive instrument collection. “I’m just trying to stay out of trouble,” says Earle with a laugh. “If I stay busy, then I’m OK.”

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Official Show Announcement:

Toward The Fun(ds): A Concert Benefitting Camp Winnarainbow

On September 29th, Steve Earle hosts an intimate songwriters circle, inviting Emmylou Harris, the Mastersons, and a surprise musical guest to gather in support of Camp Winnarainbow—a circus & performing arts haven for young people, founded in 1975 by Hippie icons Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney. Join us in celebrating the transformative role Camp Winnarainbow has played in the lives of generations of young people with this special night of music.

Beyond Steve Earle's prolific recording and songwriting career, the 3-time Grammy winner has produced albums for Joan Baez and Lucinda Williams, published novels & short stories; and acted on screen and stage. Audiences can find Steve touring and hosting his celebrated radio show.

14-time Grammy winner Emmylou Harris' contribution as a singer songwriter spans 40 years and more than 25 albums. Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.



















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Typo catcher: Steve Earl, Emmy Lou Harris, Emmylu Harris, Emmilou Harris, Good Bye, Camp Win A Rainbow