Biography

The son of maverick Texas songwriter Steve Earle (and carrying the middle name of his dad's mentor, Townes Van Zandt), Justin Townes Earle shares just a hint of his father's vocal style in his voice, and like the elder Earle, he writes his own songs, but aside from the fact that both Earles fall to the country side of the Mason-Dixon Line, there are probably far more differences in their musical approaches than there are similarities. The younger Earle grew up in Nashville and took up music early, playing in the bluegrass/ragtime combo the Swindlers and the hard-rocking Distributors; he also toured (playing guitar and keyboards) with his father's road band the Dukes, picking up a few of the elder Earle's old bad habits in the process, but like his father, he eventually kicked his drug habit and put his life in order. Developing his own writing and playing style, a hybrid mixing folk and blues with strong early country leanings, Earle self-released the six-song EP Yuma in 2007. The release attracted the attention of Chicago's Bloodshot Records, who signed Earle and put out a full-length project, The Good Life, produced by R.S. Field and recorded at House of David Studios, in 2008. He followed it with Midnight Movies in 2009 and Harlem River Blues in 2010. Earle toured extensively behind this last album and won nearly universal critical acclaim. He followed it up with Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now in the spring of 2012. That same year, Earle dipped his toes into production, working behind the board on Unfinished Business, an album by pioneering rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson. After Earle's contract with Bloodshot had run its course, he signed a deal with Communion Records, a U.K. label owned in part by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, but the deal soon turned into a war of words between Earle and the label's A&R staff, with Earle frequently posting angry messages on Twitter about his dealing with the company. In 2014, Earle finally re-emerged with a new album, Single Mothers, which was released by the American independent label Vagrant Records. . The son of maverick Texas songwriter Steve Earle (and carrying the middle name of his dad's mentor, Townes Van Zandt), Justin Townes Earle shares just a hint of his father's vocal style in his voice, and like the elder Earle, he writes his own songs, but aside from the fact that both Earles fall to the country side of the Mason-Dixon Line, there are probably far more differences in their musical approaches than there are similarities. The younger Earle grew up in Nashville and took up music early, playing in the bluegrass/ragtime combo the Swindlers and the hard-rocking Distributors; he also toured (playing guitar and keyboards) with his father's road band the Dukes, picking up a few of the elder Earle's old bad habits in the process, but like his father, he eventually kicked his drug habit and put his life in order. Developing his own writing and playing style, a hybrid mixing folk and blues with strong early country leanings, Earle self-released the six-song EP Yuma in 2007. The release attracted the attention of Chicago's Bloodshot Records, who signed Earle and put out a full-length project, The Good Life, produced by R.S. Field and recorded at House of David Studios, in 2008. He followed it with Midnight Movies in 2009 and Harlem River Blues in 2010. Earle toured extensively behind this last album and won nearly universal critical acclaim. He followed it up with Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now in the spring of 2012. That same year, Earle dipped his toes into production, working behind the board on Unfinished Business, an album by pioneering rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson. After Earle's contract with Bloodshot had run its course, he signed a deal with Communion Records, a U.K. label owned in part by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, but the deal soon turned into a war of words between Earle and the label's A&R staff, with Earle frequently posting angry messages on Twitter about his dealing with the company. In 2014, Earle finally re-emerged with a new album, Single Mothers, which was released by the American independent label Vagrant Records.

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1.	Time Shows Fools	Single Mothers	2:59	$1.29
2.	White Gardenias	Single Mothers	2:40	$1.29
3.	Burning Pictures	Single Mothers	2:47	$1.29
4.	Harlem River Blues	Harlem River Blues	2:48	$1.29
5.	My Baby Drives	Single Mothers	2:11	$1.29
6.	Single Mothers	Single Mothers	2:48	$1.29
7.	Worried Bout the Weather	Single Mothers	3:33	$1.29
8.	Can't Hardly Wait	Midnight At the Movies	2:48	$0.99
9.	Lone Pine Hill	Good Life	3:03	$1.29
10.	Glory Days	Dead Man's Town: A Trib..	3:30	$1.29
11.	It's Cold In This House	Single Mothers	3:11	$1.29
12.	Wanna Be a Stranger	Single Mothers	2:33	$1.29
13.	Picture In a Drawer	Single Mothers	4:09	$1.29
14.	Today and a Lonely Night	Single Mothers	2:55	$1.29
15.	Move over Mama (Live)	Cambridge Folk Festival 201..	2:26	$0.99
16.	Automobile Blues	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	4:25	$1.29
17.	Movin' On	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	4:42	$1.29
18.	Unfortunately, Anna	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	3:41	$1.29
19.	Memphis in the Rain	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	2:27	$1.29
20.	Won't Be the Last Time	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	3:12	$1.29
21.	Down On the Lower East Side	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	3:07	$1.29
22.	Maria	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	2:36	$1.29
23.	Baby's Got a Bad Idea	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	2:07	$1.29
24.	Nothing's Gonna Change the Way Y..	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	3:05	$1.29
25.	Look the Other Way	Nothing's Gonna Change ..	2:30	$1.29

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