Justin Townes Earle plays Letterman, tour
Earle will continue to tour in 2011 with a series of special European shows in January followed by U.S. dates in
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Jan. 8 Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
Feb. 4 Portsmouth, NH The Music Hall #
Feb. 5 Burlington, VT Higher Ground #
Feb. 7 Buffalo, NH The Mohawk #
Feb. 8 Kent, OH Kent Stage #
Feb. 9 Detroit, MI Magic Stick #
Feb. 10 Chicago, IL Metro #
Feb. 11 Bloomington, IL Six Strings Club #
Feb. 12 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon #
Feb. 14 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue #
Feb. 16 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
Feb. 17 Salt Lake City, UT The State Room
Feb. 19 Seattle, WA The Crocodile
Feb. 20 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Feb. 22 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Feb. 23 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theatre
Feb. 25 Los Angeles, CA The Autry Museum
Feb. 27 San Diego, CA The Casbah
#Jessica Lea Mayfield support
Additional tour dates to be announced.
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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