Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earleis an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is a son of alternative country artist Steve Earle and is named after Townes Van Zandt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth4 January 1982
CountryUnited States of America
country book mean
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
country song loss
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.
song blessed writing
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.
play records certain
There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play,
teacher writing school
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
clothes impossible findings
Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
song writing together
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
sweet dog new-york
It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.
mother father parent
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
nashville hometown stifling
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
song writing ploughing
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.
teenager father single-word
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
home ten
On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.