Shalin Liu Performance Center: Justin Townes Earle

Description

After growing up playing in several bands around Nashville (including a stint with his Dad's band the Dukes), Earle's 2007 solo debut record The Good Life (on Bloodshot Records)burst onto the scene fully-formed, his vintage honky-tonk and pre-war blues sound creating quite a contrast to Music Row's slick modern country. He soon developed a cult following, touring with fellow roots upstarts like Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch and the Felice Brothers. On the strength of his stellar follow-up Midnight at the Movies, Earle won an Americana Music Award for Best Emerging Artist in 2009, and then returned two years later to win Song of the Year for the title track of Harlem River Blues.