First Listen: Justin Townes Earle, 'The Saint Of Lost Causes'
Cradled in his homespun warmth, Justin Townes Earle's husky drawl feels like the darkness before the dawn.
Singer-songwriters such as often get pegged as being self-reflective, and it's a fair accusation. Earle himself lingered on his own confessional psyche on his last album, 2017's , which unearthed all kinds of rocks from his past to see what was squirming underneath them. But it's always best to remember to Earle is the son of , and the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree — and the father's penchant for social commentary and message music has just as much of a chance of working its way into the son's songs. Such is the case with , Earle's latest album. Far-ranging and fueled by both empathy and rage, it's the opposite of myopic.
