Cedar City is a town in Utah, population of 20,000.

Staying at the Super 8 motel back in 1988, channel surfing, stumbled over a college  TV station playing Steve Earle.

Probably this video.

Bought Exit 0 next day and pretty much everything since.

Saw him in the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz in concert with his son Justin.

Watch him here

And here, so convincing as an addict in “The Wire”.

Read his back-story and you’ll understand why.