Best Bets: Steve Earle comes to the Englert

Three-time Grammy Award recipient and 11-time Grammy nominee Steve Earle is a cornerstone artist of Americana music. Always musically adventurous, he's released 20 albums, exploring folk, blues, rock, country, rockabilly and bluegrass genres. Among his diverse collaborators are The Pogues, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, The Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow and Shawn Colvin. His new album, 'So You Wannabe an Outlaw,” digs into his country songwriting roots and includes collaborations with Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush and Miranda Lambert. During his four-decade career, Earle also has become an author, stage and screen actor, activist, record producer and radio host.

Steve Earle

8 p.m. Tuesday (3/27), Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St., Iowa City: $37.50 to $57.50, Englert Box Office, (319) 688-2653 or Englert.org