PORTLAND — Multi-Grammy Award winner and master songwriter Steve Earle will give an intimate seated performance at Port City Music Hall on Saturday, Dec. 1.

Earle’s songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. The musician/singer is also an author and actor.

This is Earle’s first Portland performance since Valentines Day 2003 at the State Theatre.

Limited tickets for the 9 p.m. performance are available for $35 to $75. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5.  Call 888-512-SHOW; visit Port City Hall at 504 Congress St. between 10 a.m. and noon on Oct. 5; or log on to www.portcitymusichall.com.

In 1986, Earle’s debut album, “Guitar Town,” shot to No. 1 on the country charts and immediately established the term “new country.” What followed was a  varied array of releases, including the biting hard rock of “Copperhead Road;” the minimalist beauty of “Train A Comin’;” the politically charged “Jerusalem;” and Grammy Award-winning albums, “The Revolution Starts … Now ,” “Washington Square Serenade” and “Townes.”

Earle’s 14th studio album, “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive,” released in 2011, was titled after a Hank Williams song and deals with questions of mortality. The album garnered both Emmy and Grammy Award nominations.