Justin Townes Earle puts out '09's best CD
The list includes 20 discs, ranging from Dave Rawlings Machine to Charlie Robison to Steve Earle to Miranda Lambert.
The top 20 as voted by the panel was:
1 Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
2 Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
3 Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses - Roadhouse Sun
4 Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
5 Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
6 Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
7 Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan
8 Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
9 Band of Heathens - One Foot In the Ether
9 Jason Isbell & 400 Unit - Self Titled
10 Tom Russell - Blood & Candlesmoke
11 Jason Isbell & 400 Unit - Self Titled
12 Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler
13 Charlie Robison - Beautiful Day
14 Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print
15 Steve Earle - Townes
16 Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
17 Wrinkle Neck Mules - Let The Lead Fly
18 Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
19 Guy Clark - Somedays The Songs Write You
20 Those Darlins - Those Darlins
20 Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Voters included representatives of Country California, Americana Roots, Twangville, Sounds Country and Too Much Country.
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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