The Low Highway is the follow-up to 2011's Grammy Award-nominated album I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive and is the first billed as "Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses)." The album is also the first to feature "The Dukes" band name since 1987's Exit 0. The Low Highway features his live band consisting of Chris Masterson, Eleanor Whitmore, Kelley Looney, Will Rigby and Allison Moorer and was co-produced by Earle and Ray Kennedy (whose production partnership known as the "Twangtrust" was behind Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels On A Gravel Road). The Low Highway is Earle's fifteenth studio album since the release of his highly influential 1986 debut Guitar Town.