Justin Townes Earle – Saint Of Lost Causes (CD)
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Released in 2019, Saint of Lost Causes arrived as one of the most politically and socially direct statements of Justin Townes Earle's career, drawing on the Americana storytelling tradition his father Steve Earle helped define while staking out entirely his own territory. Where earlier records leaned into classic country and blues structures, here he turns that sonic foundation toward a portrait of forgotten corners of America that rarely get this kind of empathetic, unflinching treatment.
The Saint Of Lost Causesis the 8th album from American roots troubadour, Justin Townes Earle. Earle’s latest album finds a songwriter and artist who is unflinching and unequivocal in his truth. When writing this album, Earle focused on a different America—the disenfranchised and the downtrodden, the oppressed and the oppressors, the hopeful and the hopeless. There’s the drugstore-cowboy-turned-cop-killer praying for forgiveness (“Appalachian Nightmare”) and the common Michiganders persevering through economic and industrial devastation (“Flint City Shake It”); the stuck mother dreaming of a better life on the right side of the California tracks (“Over Alameda”) and the Cuban man in New York City weighed down by a world of regret (“Ahi Esta Mi Nina”); the “used up” soul desperate to get to New Orleans (“Ain’t Got No Money”) and the “sons of bitches” in West Virginia poisoning the land and sea (“Don’t Drink the Water”). These are individuals and communities in every corner of the country, struggling through the ordinary—and sometimes extraordinary—circumstances of everyday life.
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UPC: 607396645428
Label: New West Records
Release Date: 5.24.19
Format: CD