Road warrior Earle hits the road
The new album is Earle's fourth release and drops March 27 on Bloodshot Records . The CD is the follow-up to his 2010 album, "Harlem River Blues."
Produced by Earle alongside longtime collaborator Skylar Wilson, the 10-track album was recorded completely live with no overdubs over a 4-day period at an old converted church recording studio in Asheville, N.C. "I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more. The new record is completely different than my last one, 'Harlem River Blues.' This time I've gone in a Memphis-soul direction."
Tour dates are:
March 10 North Adams, MA MASS MoCA
March 15 Little Rock, AR Rev Room*
March 17 Austin, TX SXSW - Stubb's
March 20 Mobile, AL Callahan's (SOLD OUT)
March 22 Savannah, GA Savannah Music Festival at Lucas Theatre #
March 23 Live Oak, FL Suwannee SpringFest
March 29 Bloomington, IL The Castle Theatre
March 30 Iowa City, IA Mission Creek Music Festival
March 31 Cascade, IA Ellen Kennedy Fine Arts Center
May 3 Houston, TX Fitzgeralds*
May 4 Austin, TX Antones*
May 5 Dallas, TX Club Dada*
May 7 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater*
May 8 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre*
May 10 Chicago, IL Park West*
May 11 Columbus, OH The Bluestone*
May 12 Toronto, ON Opera House*
May 13 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom*
May 14 Northampton, MA Pearl Street Nightclub*
May 16 Boston, MA Somerville Theatre*
May 17 New York, NY Webster Hall*
May 18 Alexandria, VA Birchmere Music Hall*
May 19 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts*
May 20 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage*
May 22 Richmond, VA Botanical Garden*
May 23 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle*
May 24 Knoxville, TN Square Room*
May 25 Roswell, GA Roswell Cultural Arts Center ##
June 1 Chattanooga, TN Track 29**
June 2 Nashville, TN The Ryman**
June 3 Morgantown, WV Mountain Stage
June 29 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
June 30 & July 1 Laytonville, VA Kate Wolf Music Festival
July 3 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
July 4 Vancouver, BC Rio Theatre
July 6 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
* with support from Tristen
# co-headline with The Head and the Heart
## with support from Joe McGuiness
** co-headline with Todd Snider
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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