Transcendental Blues
by Steve Earle
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Transcendental Blues is ranked 7th best out of 29 albums by Steve Earle on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Steve Earle is Guitar Town which is ranked number 3244 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 469.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Transcendental Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/22/2026 10:22 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,114 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2026 23:04 |  covecove | 6,663 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2026 11:46 | daCritic | 4,568 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2025 03:05 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2025 04:36 | Proto | 4,191 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.4.
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drivebytornado 02/27/2013 13:42 | #66324
With the final album of Steve Earle's 5 year / 4 album peak, Transcendental Blues is one of my top 3 albums of the year 2000. This is a very very consistent album, one which having 15 tracks makes you wish he threw on a couple more. I think any of these could be somebody's favorites, but mine come towards the end, tracks 10-11, which are titled "When I Fall" and "I Don't Want to Lose You Yet", on which Steve's wife Stacie shows off her vocal skills.
Romanelli 11/27/2011 20:30 | #31548
More of the rock side than country from one of the best...Steve Earle needs more attention!
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