*The Independent og andre stemmer mener, at Steve Earle der som andre countrysangere har hang til ballader om anti-helte er ude i et tvivlsomt ærinde på sin kommende single, »John Walkers Blues«, om den amerikanske talibandit: »Im just an American boy raised on MTV, And Ive seen all those kids in the soda pop ads and none ofem looked like me / So I started lookin around for a light out of the dim, and the first thing I heard that made sense was the word of Mohammed peace be upon him...