Washington Square Serenade

Washington Square Serenade
Studio album by
Steve Earle
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2007
StudioElectric Lady Studios, New York City
Length42:07
LabelNew West
ProducerJohn King
Steve Earle chronology
The Revolution Starts Now
(2004) 		Washington Square Serenade
(2007) 		Townes
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Guardian Unlimited[3]
Pitchfork Media5.0/10[4]
Rolling Stone[5]
Uncut[6]

Washington Square Serenade is the 12th studio album by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released in 2007. The album features the singer's wife Allison Moorer on the track "Days Aren't Long Enough," and the Brazilian group Forro in the Dark on the track "City of Immigrants." The track "Way Down in the Hole," written by Tom Waits, was used as the opening theme song for the fifth and final season of the HBO series The Wire, on which Earle played a recurring character named Walon. The album was released on September 25, 2007, on New West Records. In February 2008 it won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.[7]

  1. ^ "Washington Square Serenade by Steve Earle". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ AllMusic review
  3. ^ Robin Denselow, Review: Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade, Guardian Unlimited, September 28, 2007
  4. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  5. ^ Robert Christgau, Review: Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade, Rolling Stone, October 4, 2007
  6. ^ Robert Hughes, Review: Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade, Uncut
  7. ^ Dickens, Tad (2008-04-08). "A different world for Steve Earle". The Roanoke Times. Retrieved 2018-08-28.