Justin Townes Earle visits A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion broadcasts live this weekend from New York City's Town Hall. Earle appears along with Broadway actress Kate Beahen and folk singer Heather Masse. Check local listings for airtimes http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/stations/ for air times.
As for Treme, Earle appears on the episode with his dad, Steve Earle Sunday at 10 p.m./9 p.m. central on HBO. Treme is the latest effort from David Simon and Eric Overmyer, collaborators on TV shows like The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Treme looks at ordinary people as they try to rebuild their lives, homes, and culture in the aftermath of the hurricane. The series has had musical guests, including Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Galactic, Kermit Ruffins and the Rebirth Brass Band.
Earle continues his busy period by returning to the studio in mid-May, to make the follow-up to his 2009 record "Midnight at the Movies." Earle also contributed a track, Far From Me, to "Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine," a tribute disc out in late June on Oh Boy.
Tour dates are:
Saturday,May 1 - Prairie Home Companion at Town Hall - New York, NY
Friday, May 14 - Sky City - Augusta, GA
Saturday,May 15 - Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival - Thomson, GA (with Little Feat)
Tuesday, May 18 - Ryman Auditorium - Nashville, TN (with The Swell Season)
Wednesday, May 26 - Alys Robinson Stephene PAC - Birmingham, AL (with The Swell Season)
Friday, May 28 - Symphony Hall - Atlanta, GA (with The Swell Season)
Friday, June 4 - Unitarian Church of Montclair - Montclair, NJ
Sunday June 6 - Mountain Jam Festival - Hunter, NY (with Levon Helm, The Avett Brothers, Drive-By Truckers, Dr. Dog, and more) Thursday, June 10 - Capitol Theatre - York, PA
Friday, June 11 - Three Rivers Arts Festival - Pittsburgh, PA (with Kris Kristofferson)
Saturday,June 12 - Emelin Theatre - Mamaronek, NY Sunday, June 13 - Sellersville Theater 1894 - Sellersville, PA
Friday, July 2 - Taste of Minnesota Festival - St. Paul, MN Monday, July 5 - Crossroads - Kansas City, MO (with Levon Helm)
Saturday,July 10 - Salty Jam - Saint John, NB
Friday, July 30 - Iron Horse - Northampton, MA
Saturday July 31 - Newport Folk Festival - Newport, RI (with John Prine, Levon Helm, The Avett Brothers, The Felice Brothers, Corey Chisel & the Wandering Sons, Dawes, Doc Watson, The Swell Season and more)
Sunday, August 22 - Hoxeyville Music Festival - Wellston, MI
Saturday,August 28 - Strand Theatre - Lakewood, NJ
Saturday,September 25 - Watermelon Park Festival - Berryville, VA (with The Punch Brothers and more)
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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