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
song thinking men
I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
song littles heard
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
jobs thinking artist
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
house parent feelings
I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.
jobs guy criminals
I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.
father rebel republican
I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.
song writing thinking
You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
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.
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.
nashville hometown stifling
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
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.