Rebecca Cohn Auditorium: Dalhousie Student Union

Sea Shanty Dept: The latter venue was the site of Earle s last appearance here three years ago, an acoustic evening with his wife Allison Moorer, but with the release of his latest album, I ll Never Get Out of the World Alive, the Texas-bred troubadour is out to raise the volume again with a revamped version of his band the Dukes, according to The Chronicle Herald. "This is a good song to sing in this part of Canada cause I think a lot of people will get it," said Earle in his intro. "It s a sea shanty, but for a sea to the south." The song was sad for fishermen and oil workers alike in the wake of the massive spill off Louisiana, and he made the most of chilling lines like "I saw the devil crawl out of his hole/and pull the guts of Hell into the Gulf of Mexico." Steve Earle s ongoing quest to play every stage in Halifax continued on Wednesday night when he added the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium to a list that includes the late, lamented Misty Moon, Halifax Metro Centre, Dalhousie Student Union Building s McInnes Room and St. Matthew s United Church. The Cohn show sold out quickly, and those who snapped up tickets were lucky ducks as Earle and the Dukes and Duchesses treated fans to a three-hour show covering three decades of songs that seemed to be over in the blink of an eye. He leaned heavily on the new record, playing nine of its 11 tracks, but that s hardly a complaint when they show the songwriter in such fine form, as in Little Emperor s snarling farewell jab at George W. Bush or an elegy to lost ways of life on Gulf of Mexico. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.