founded in 1996 by singer-songwriter
and producer
Steve Earle
and seasoned music executive Jack Emerson. The label produced a series of albums by Earle, starting with 1996's I Feel Alright
. Warner Bros. supported the label on many early releases. Earle and Emerson soon began signing and releasing additional artists such as The V-Roys
, Bap Kennedy
, and Cheri Knight. According to Billboard
the label developed a reputation for "releasing fine albums by artists who excel at songcraft and whose music is happily uncategorizable - hovering around rock, country and pop but never landing in any one camp."
Late in 1999, following the success of Steve Earle's collaboration with the Del McCoury Band
, The Mountain, a co-venture was announced between E-Squared and Artemis Records.
Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!
I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
[in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
[in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.
[In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.
Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Prostitution is organized rape.