In honor of this month’s Bandcamp Friday, Dawn Landes has released a stripped-down duet with the late Justin Townes Earle. Recorded roughly a decade ago, it’s a plainspoken, finger-picked version of Dolly Parton‘s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind.” Earle and Landes recorded the song at Landes’ Brooklyn studio while …
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Steve Earle and the Dukes performed a lively cover of his son Justin Townes Earle’s “Harlem River Blues” on Thursday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The recorded version appears on the newly released album J.T., a tribute to the late singer-songwriter, who died in August. Strumming an octave mandolin, …
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In 2017, Justin Townes Earle made a rare appearance with his father Steve Earle on the elder’s SiriusXM’s Hardcore Troubadour Radio. Justin was there to promote his blues album Kids in the Street. It resulted in a fascinating conversation where Steve recalled the day he heard his son playing Nirvana’s …
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