JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE (USA)
Thu 12th April
DOORS @20:30
The ReChords
Archer
$47.00 + bfCLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS
Love Police Touring presents:
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE (USA)
with special guests
The ReChords
and
Archer
Thursday 12th April 2012
Tickets $47.00 + booking fee available from www.princebandroom.com.au, 0395361168, in person at the Prince of Wales pub and all Moshtix outlets.
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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE (USA)
Growing up in Nashville he mis-spent his youth playing in bluegrass/ragtime combo The Swindlers and the louder, more rocking The Distributors and developing some very bad habits. During tours as guitarist and keyboardist (and not a very good one, laughs Earle) in his father Steve Earle's band, his problems became untenable and he was fired. Ultimately he cleaned up his act, dropped his self-des...tructive habits and began to focus on songcraft. You dont have to be fucked up or torture yourself to write songs, explains Earle, I used to write a lot, a whole lot, and half those songs I dont even remember. Now, I sit there and I write it and I finish it and I keep it.
With inspirations as diverse as Townes Van Zandt (he was named in honor of the elder Earles hero), Jimmy Reed, Kurt Cobain, The Replacements, Ray Charles and The Pogues, Justin forged his own brand of American roots music. Going through life with a namesake of Van Zandts stature cannot be easy for a young songwriter, but Earle takes it in stride, saying, Anyone who tries to live up to Van Zandt is a fool. Im honored to carry the name, but if I spent my life trying to live up to it, Id have a pretty miserable life. Likewise, his fathers incredibly acclaimed, prolific career casts a huge shadow, but Justin Townes Earle's makes a name for himself by focusing his writing on the personal rather than the political, narrative tales instead of protest.
With inspirations as diverse as Townes Van Zandt (he was named in honor of the elder Earles hero), Jimmy Reed, Kurt Cobain, The Replacements, Ray Charles and The Pogues, Justin forged his own brand of American roots music. Going through life with a namesake of Van Zandts stature cannot be easy for a young songwriter, but Earle takes it in stride, saying, Anyone who tries to live up to Van Zandt is a fool. Im honored to carry the name, but if I spent my life trying to live up to it, Id have a pretty miserable life. Likewise, his fathers incredibly acclaimed, prolific career casts a huge shadow, but Justin Townes Earle's makes a name for himself by focusing his writing on the personal rather than the political, narrative tales instead of protest.