Justin Townes Earle plays Americana gig, tours
This is part of the 7th Annual Americana Festival and Conference, which will offer seminars and panels from Sept. 17-20.
Earle also will be involved in a new video and more touring for the rest of the year. A new video for the title track has just been completed with a premiere on Amazon.com on Aug. 11. The video was directed by Nashville's Travis Nicholson.
Bloodshot will release a limited edition LP of "The Good Life," set to hit stores Sept. 9. It is specially remastered and the first 500 copies will contain the self-released CD/EP, "Yuma."
"The Good Life" was produced by RS Field, who has made his mark on critically acclaimed albums by Billy Joe Shaver, Sonny Landreth, Webb Wilder and Buddy Guy. Joining Earle in the studio was longtime cohort Cory Yountes (Bobby Bare, Jr) on banjo and mandolin, pedal steel player Pete Finney (Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless), bassist Bryn Davies (Patty Griffin, Guy Clark), drummer Bryan Owings (Buddy Miller, Shelby Lynne), keyboardist Skylar Wilson and fiddle player Josh Hedley.
Tour dates are:
Wednesday, July 23 London Troubadour
Thursday, July 24 Oswestry, England Ironworks
Friday, July 25 Worchester, England Marrs Bar
Saturday, July 26 Bristol, England Thunderbolt
Sunday, July 27 Newcastle, England Gateshead Festival
Saturday, Aug. 2-3 Portland, OR Pickathon
Monday, Aug. 4 Cleveland Grog Shop
Tuesday, Aug. 5 Bowling Green, OH Howard's End
Wednesday, Aug. 6 Detroit, MI The Majestic Theatre
Friday, Aug. 8 Boston New Boston Boat
Saturday, Aug. 9 Providence, RI The Living Room
Sunday, Aug. 10 New York Rocks Off Cruise
Monday, Aug. 11 Highlands, NJ The Claddagh
Tuesday, Aug. 12 Philadelphia North Star Bar
Wednesday, Aug. 13 Baltimore The Ottobar
Thursday, Aug. 14 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Friday, Aug. 15-16 Gribsrod Gard, Halden (NO) Down on the Farm Fest
Thursday, Sept. 4 Memphis, TN Levitt Shell at Overton Park
Friday, Sept. 12 Lafayette, IN LayFlats Arts and Music Fest
Friday, Sept. 19 Oak Park, IL Oak Park Music Festival
Saturday, Sept. 20 Lexington, KY Oktoberfest
Wednesday, Sept. 24 Boston Berklee Performance Center
Thursday, Sept. 25 Fall River, MA Narrows Center for the Arts
Sunday, Oct. 5 San Francisco, CA Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest
Friday, Oct. 10 Indianapolis, IN Radio Radio
Saturday, Oct. 11 Chicago Chicago Country Music Festival
Sunday, Dec. 7-9 Green Bay, WI Oneida Casino
More news for Justin Townes Earle
- 06/11/24: Earle is "All In"
- 12/01/20: Earle dies of fentanyl-related overdose
- 09/16/20: Steve Earle announces tribute album to his late son
- 08/24/20: Justin Townes Earle passes away at 38
- 04/03/19: Earle takes on "The Saint of Lost Causes"
- 05/26/17: Earle, Bare release new music
- 03/02/17: Earle heads to New West
- 01/13/15: Earle, RaeLynn, Ickes/Hensley release new music
CD reviews for Justin Townes Earle
When your Dad's Steve Earle and your namesake is Townes Van Zandt, you probably aren't destined to be a shoemaker. A native of Music City, Justin Townes Earle ate well from the horn of plenty that is the Nashville scene. He kicked around in some bands, but also generally raised a lot of hell. Around 2007, he started releasing albums regularly - "Saint of Lost Causes" is his eighth release and the first since 2017's critically well-received "Kids In the Street. ...
With "Kids In The Street," Justin Townes Earle moves comfortably between country, blues, folk and rock. The strongest country tunes are the traditional sounding weeper "What's She Crying For," featuring slick pedal steel guitar work from Paul Niehaus, and the catchy ballad "Faded Valentine," a sweetly melancholic tale of lost love that highlights producer Mike Mogis on mandolin.
The nostalgic title track finds Earle reminiscing about his unspectacular childhood ...
Fans of the early Justin Townes Earle might be disappointed in the work that fills "Absent Fathers," his 2015 album that shows the once reckless outlaw-wannabe has grown up past the anger and found a home in therapeutic songwriting. For the rest of listeners, however, it's a cathartic and thought-provoking journey through his atonement, not with his muddy past, but instead with his own pain.
Earle's voice hints of the same grittiness found in Black Keys front man Dan ...
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