Justin Townes Earle
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Justin Townes Earle in 2010
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| Background information | |
| Born | January 4, 1982 Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genres | Americana, folk, country, rockabilly, blues, soul |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, Acoustic guitar |
| Labels | Vagrant, Loose Music |
| Associated acts | Steve Earle, Dukes, dawn Landes, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, Caitlin Rose |
| Website | justintownesearle |
Justin Townes Earle (born January 4, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is a son of alternative country artist Steve Earle and is named after Townes Van Zandt.[1]
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Early life
Earle grew up in South Nashville, Tennessee, with his mother, Carol Ann Hunter Earle. His father, Steve Earle, gave him his middle name in honor of his own mentor, Townes van Zandt. At the age of two he was left by his father with his mother.[2]
Career
Earle played in two Nashville bands: the Distributors, a rock band, and a ragtime and bluegrass combo the Swindlers.[3] Earle spent some time as guitarist and keyboardist for his father's touring band the Dukes.[3]
Earle developed a hybrid style of music mixing folk, blues and country.[3] In 2007, he released a six-song EP called Yuma.[3] He then signed a contract with Chicago's Bloodshot Records and he released an album called The Good Life in 2008.[3]
In 2009 Earle co-billed The Big Surprise Tour with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Felice Brothers[4] and released the album Midnight at the Movies.[3] In September 2009, Earle received an Americana Music Award for New and Emerging Artist of the Year.[5]
In 2010 he released the album Harlem River Blues, followed by the album Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now in 2012.[3] He also appeared in an episode of the HBO television series Treme with his father.[6]
In 2011 Earle received the Americana Music Award in the Song of the Year category for "Harlem River Blues".[7] His album of the same name has been described as having a "gently flowing, urban Americana sound, with horns, organ and tangy electric guitar".[7] That year he also contributed a cover of Maybe Baby on the 2011 tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly and played Newport Folk Festival and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.[citation needed]
Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now was listed at album number 37 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, with the annotation as follows: "The son of country-rock renegade Steve Earle has grown into a songwriter to rival his dad."[8]
Earle produced Wanda Jackson's album Unfinished Business in 2012.[9]
Earle played the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, Historical WSM, South By Southwest (2008–2010, 2012), the historic Beacon Theater (May 2009), Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion (September 2009), Bonnaroo (2009) Bumbershoot (2010), the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival (Byron Bay, Australia), 2012, the Bowery Ballroom (March 2010) and the Nelsonville Music Festival (2008 and 2011).[10][11]
Earle was born and raised by his mother in Nashville, Tennessee. He began using drugs at age 12 and continued for many years. After a stint in rehab followed by a period of sobriety he notably relapsed in September of 2010. His relapse included a fight with an Indianapolis club owner. He was jailed overnight and spent a month in an alcohol rehabilitation center. He has been sober since then.[1][12][13]
Earle moved to New York City in 2007, and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.[1]
Earle was married in 2013.[14]
Discography
Albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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| US [15] |
US Country [16] |
US Rock [17] |
US Heat [18] |
US Indie [19] |
US Folk [20] |
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| Yuma |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| The Good Life |
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— | 70 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Midnight at the Movies |
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— | — | — | 15 | 41 | — | ||
| Harlem River Blues |
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47 | — | 18 | — | 9 | 3 | ||
| Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now |
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62 | — | 19 | — | 11 | 4 | ||
| Single Mothers |
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56 | — | 19 | — | 13 | 3 | ||
| Absent Fathers |
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— | — | 16 | — | 13 | 5 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
References
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- ↑ St John, Lauren. Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle, Fourth Estate, 2002.
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 DeBarros, Paul (July 12, 2012) Justin Townes Earle and Tristen pack a double punch, The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- ↑ [1] Archived December 11, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ "Past Shows." Stuart's Opera House: Nelsonville, Ohio. Stuart's Opera House: Nelsonville, Ohio, n.d. Web. !October 8, 2012.
- ↑ “Nelsonville Music Festival.” Nelsonville Music Festival, n.d. Web. October 25, 2012.
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Other sources
- Deming, Mark. "Justin Townes Earle Biography", CMT, AllMusic, March 25, 2008.
- Ruehl, Kim. "2008 Americana Music Association Awards and Honors Winners", About.com, Folk Music Guide, September 18, 2008.
- Jacobs, Justin. "Buddy Miller, John Fogerty, Justin Townes Earle Amongst Notable Winners at Americana Music Awards", Paste Magazine, September 21, 2009.
External links
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- Living people
- American country singers
- American folk musicians
- American country singer-songwriters
- People from Nashville, Tennessee
- Americana Music Honors & Awards winners
- Musicians from Tennessee
- Bloodshot Records artists
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