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Justin Townes Earle- The Good Life
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Amazon.com Like his musical pedigree, the debut release by Justin Townes Earle is a mixed blessing. In Texas songwriting circles, having Steve Earle as a father--who gave him his middle name in commemoration of his creative hero Townes Van Zandt--is the sort of burden that a basketball-playing son of Michael Jordan might carry. Half of these cuts that sound like Lone Star roadhouse ready-mades, dimly remembered from some 1960s jukebox (though all Earle originals.) During this stretch of The Good Life, neither his voice nor his songwriting is strong enough to raise the results above the generic. Yet the folkier intimacy he displays on "Who Am I to Say" and "Turn Out the Lights" shows a singer-songwriter who can really get under the listener's skin when he isn't trying to sing over a band. Saving the best for last, he sounds a little like his dad on "Far Away In Another Town," but he also sounds like an artist coming into his own. --Don McLeese Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Review Justin Townes Earle has the ability to set this industry on its ear...on his own terms. The Good Life already promises to be on the Best of 2008 lists at year end. Don't be expecting Copperhead Road deja vu moments. Justin's his own man and artist. A must have. --Take Country Back Put this disc on and get lost in its powerful pull of storied songs sure to get you through the night. This is music from the side of Nashville that really matters. --Exclaim Is it good? Oh, yes. The boy has talent oozing out of every pore. He wrote the songs, he plays guitars and harmonica, and he sings - indeed, sings very well. He lives up to both famous names, and then some, because he doesn't imitate either of them and stands as his own musician, right off the bat. --About.com In The Good Life his narrator has gone so far downhill since a breakup that he doesn't even realize he's a derelict. With a rolling shuffle beat and fiddle-and-pedal steel sidling around his voice, Mr. Earle suggests that long ago people danced through troubles like these, and they might yet again. --The New York Times The hard-drivin' Hard Livin, from the twenty-five-year-old singer's upcoming solo debut, The Good Life, is a compactly written opener sporting a percussive piano, a fiddle that spirals spryly upwards, and a jazzy rhythm section that keeps the song chugging along at a barreling tempo. --Pitchfork
