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Justin Townes Earle was born on 4 January, 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., is an American musician (1982–2020). Discover Justin Townes Earle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 38 years old?

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Occupation Singer-songwriter musician
Age 38 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 4 January 1982
Birthday 4 January
Birthplace Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Date of death 2020
Died Place Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1982

Justin Townes Earle (January 4, 1982August 20, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician.

1994

When Justin was two, his father left his family, but after Steve Earle became sober in 1994 he returned.

Justin dropped out of school, occasionally touring with and working for his father, eventually moving to eastern Tennessee with other songwriters.

Like his father, Earle battled addiction beginning in his early teens.

Earle played in two Nashville bands: the rock band the Distributors and the ragtime and bluegrass combo the Swindlers.

He spent some time as guitarist and keyboardist for his father's touring band the Dukes.

He developed a hybrid style of music mixing folk, blues and country.

2007

After his debut, EP Yuma (2007), he released eight full-length albums.

In 2007, Earle released a six-song EP called Yuma.

2008

He signed a contract with Chicago's Bloodshot Records and released an album called The Good Life in 2008.

Earle played the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, Historical WSM, South By Southwest (2008–2010, 2012), the historic Beacon Theatre (May 2009), Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion (September 2009), Bonnaroo (2009) Bumbershoot (2010), the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival (Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia) in 2012, the Bowery Ballroom (March 2010), the Winnipeg Folk Festival (July 2008), and the Nelsonville Music Festival (2008 and 2011).

2009

He was recognized with an Americana Music Award for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2009 and for Song of the Year in 2011 for "Harlem River Blues".

His father is alternative country artist Steve Earle.

Earle grew up in South Nashville, Tennessee, with his mother, Carol Ann Hunter Earle.

His father, Steve Earle, gave him his middle name in honor of his own mentor, singer and songwriter Townes van Zandt.

In 2009, he released the album Midnight at the Movies.

In 2009, Earle co-billed The Big Surprise Tour with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Old Crow Medicine Show, and The Felice Brothers.

In September 2009, Earle received an Americana Music Award for New and Emerging Artist of the Year.

Earle moved to New York City in 2009, but returned to Nashville in 2014.

2010

In 2010, he released the album Harlem River Blues, followed by the album Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now in 2012.

He relapsed in September 2010 and again in 2017.

2011

In 2011, Earle received the Americana Music Award in the Song of the Year category for "Harlem River Blues".

His album of the same name has been described as having a "gently flowing, urban Americana sound, with horns, organ and tangy electric guitar".

That year he also contributed a cover of "Maybe Baby" on the 2011 tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly, and played Newport Folk Festival and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.

2012

Earle produced Wanda Jackson's album Unfinished Business in 2012.

In 2012, he appeared in an episode of the HBO television series Treme with his father.

Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now was listed at album number 37 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, with the annotation as follows: "The son of country-rock renegade Steve Earle has grown into a songwriter to rival his dad."

On January 4, 2021, Steve Earle & the Dukes released the album J.T., a tribute to Justin Townes Earle.

On January 4, 2023, a tribute concert was held at the Ryman Auditorium in memory of Justin.

Performers included Steve Earle & The Dukes and special guests: Shooter Jennings, Bonnie Whitmore, Amanda Shires, Willy and Cody Braun, Buddy Miller, Ben Nichols (Lucero), Dustin Welch, Elizabeth Cook, Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Joe Pug, Jon Langford, Lilly Hiatt, Scotty Melton, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart.

Earle began using drugs at age 12 and continued for many years.

In his words, "I discovered very fast that my way of doing things was going to get me in trouble, and I kept going with it, because I believed the myth for a long time, and I believed I had to destroy myself to make great art."

He went to rehabilitation clinics nine times followed by periods of sobriety.

2013

He married Jenn Marie Maynard in 2013 and he and his wife lived on the West Coast.

2014

From 2014 to 2017, Earle released a "family trilogy" of albums, comprising Single Mothers (2014), Absent Fathers (2015), and Kids in the Street (2017).

2017

Their only child, a daughter named Etta, was born in June 2017.

2019

His last album, The Saint of Lost Causes, was released in May 2019.

2020

Earle died on August 20, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 38, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl-laced cocaine.