At a time when many stars are using their celebrity as a platform to voice their political views, it may be refreshing to some to hear from someone who just wants to entertain.

Since Stacy Earle and Mark Stuart met at a songwriters’ night 11 years ago, they’ve made it their mission to do nothing but make people feel good with their Americana folk music.

“People want to hear our songs, they want to sing along — they want to feel good for an hour and a half, then go home and deal with things they don’t want to deal with,” Earle says. “I think with some artists … their political views and their music are almost one.”

For Earle, close ties between music and politics hit as close to home as her own family. Her brother, country bad boy Steve Earle, is politically outspoken in both his music and his personal life. But Earle says her brother’s beliefs are ones with which she can relate.

“We support Steve 100 percent,” she says. “We were raised by the same mother and father and that’s where we learned our political views — we speak the same language.”

While the duo has very strong opinions, Earle and Stuart say that they have chosen to keep their focus on their onstage focus on the uplifting music they love to share.

“I think when people come to our show, they see a kind of escape,” Stuart says. “Maybe they had a hard day at their job or don’t like what’s on the news, and when they come to our show, they can kind of get away from it all.”

“Mark and I played four blocks from the [World] Trade Center, four nights after it fell,” Earle remembers. “It was no place for us to give a speech. It was the hardest show we’ve ever done, but it was our job to make them feel good and forget for just a moment.”

Life on the road has been all this duo has known since even before they were married in 1994, and their hard work is showing.

“We show up in places that we’ve played at a couple of times and people know the lyrics to the songs,” Stuart says. “That’s really nice to know that people are that tuned into it.”

“It also comes in handy if we forget the words — we can ask them,” Earle adds. “That’s happened before, and they’ve fed me the words.”

In addition to lyrical assists, the couple’s fans have had an extraordinary influence on their music, which has not gone unappreciated.

“Mark and I depend on feedback,” Earle says. “We play songs long before they go on a record and based on how the crowd responds, we go home and record them.

“If we can get to the door fast enough to thank each and every person for coming to the show, we do.”

In 2001, the couple released a two-disc recording called “Must Be Live,” which showcased live performances drawing from 40 to 50 concerts. This allowed fans take home some of Earle and Stuart’s most memorable stage moments.

The next milestone in the artists’ careers will be the first full-length studio recording they’ve released together. “Never Gonna Let You Go” will be released June 3, and also marks the first studio record either artist has released in three years.

“I told Mark, ‘I really want to rock before I get too old,’ ” Earle says. “And I think we rocked it pretty good.”