Justin Townes Earle
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.
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.
Career
Earle played in two Nashville bands: the Distributors, a rock band, and a ragtime and bluegrass combo the Swindlers. Earle spent some time as guitarist and keyboardist for his father's touring band the Dukes.
Earle developed a hybrid style of music mixing folk, blues and country. In 2007, he released a six-song EP called Yuma. He then signed a contract with Chicago's Bloodshot Records and he released an album called The Good Life in 2008.
In 2009 Earle co-billed The Big Surprise Tour with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Felice Brothers and released the album Midnight at the Movies. In September 2009, Earle received an Americana Music Award for New and Emerging Artist of the Year.
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ALBUMS
- Single Mothers released: 2014
- Harlem River Blues released: 2010
- Midnight at the Movies released: 2009
- The Good Life released: 2008
- 2009-04-22: Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, Canada released:
- Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now released:
2009-04-22: Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, Canada
- They Killed John Henry
- Aint Glad Im Leavin’
- I Dont Care
- What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome?
- Mama’s Eyes
- [unknown]
- Ghost of Virginia
- Someday Ill Be Forgiven for This
- Im Leaving You This Lonesome Song (Carter Family)
- South Georgia Sugar Babe
- Hard Livin’
- So Different Blues (Mance Lipscomb)
- Turn Out My Lights
- A-Wanderin’
- Hesitation Blues
- I Need to Know Right Now
- Cant Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
- Faraway in Another Town
- Halfway to Jackson
- The Good Life
- You Cant Leave
- Poor Fool
- Train That Carried My Girl From Town (Doc Watson)
- Walk Out
- [encore break]
- Birmingham Jail
- Close Up the Honky Tonks (Buck Owens)
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The Good Life
by: Justin Townes EarleSame old blues comin? ?round again
Every night about this time
And it?s callin? me like a long lost friend
When I turn out my lights
I can see you in my dreams
Every time I close my eyes
And just like I knew you?d be to
Give me through the night
I can feel the darkness fall
Like the rain against the wind blows
And I can hear your memory like a
Dream outside my window babe
Even though I know you?re gone
I don?t have to be alone now
You?re here with me every night
When I turn out my lights
When I turn out my lights tonight
And look into your eyes
I know it?s gonna be alright
When I turn out my lights
?Til it?s them same old blues comin? ?round again
Every night about this time
And it?s callin? me like a long lost friend
When I turn out my lights, turn out my lights