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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : Steve Earle & The Dukes ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : J.T. ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : New West Records ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Country ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2021-03-19 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 752 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 194.30 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 34:32 min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://allmusic.com/album/release/jt-mr0005311506 ███▄▓
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██▌ 1. I Don't Care 1:54 ▐██
██▌ 2. Ain't Glad I'm Leaving 2:52 ▐██
██▌ 3. Maria 2:46 ▐██
██▌ 4. Far Away In Another Town 3:06 ▐██
██▌ 5. They Killed John Henry 2:35 ▐██
██▌ 6. Turn Out My Lights 2:35 ▐██
██▌ 7. Lone Pine Hill 2:42 ▐██
██▌ 8. Champagne Corolla 3:35 ▐██
██▌ 9. The Saint Of Lost Causes 5:01 ▐██
██▌ 10. Harlem River Blues 3:05 ▐██
██▌ 11. Last Words 4:21 ▐██
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████ Steve Earle has made something of a sideline out of paying homage ████
████ to songwriters who meant a great deal to him on the occasion of ████
████ their death. He honored his friend and mentor Townes Van Zandt on ████
████ 2009's Townes, and did the same for fellow Texas songwriting ████
████ legend Guy Clark on 2019's Guy. He continues this tradition with ████
████ 2021's J.T., though the tenor of the piece is significantly ████
████ different -- the J.T. in question was Justin Townes Earle, ████
████ Steve's son, who died in August 2020 of an accidental overdose ████
████ after years of struggling with addiction and recovery. Justin ████
████ released eight albums during his lifetime, and though plenty of ████
████ celebrity progeny are happy to trade on the good will of their ████
████ parent's body of work, he seemed determined to succeed or fail on ████
████ his own merits, with his own style. There was an introspective ████
████ tone and a lack of swagger that separated his work from his ████
████ dad's, and his plaintive mood stood in contrast with the grit of ████
████ Steve's best-known albums. Justin had a talent that rivaled that ████
████ of his father, but his lyrical voice lacked the elder Earle's ████
████ etched-in-stone confidence, and he made that a virtue, baring his ████
████ soul with a modesty and emotional truth that was disarming and ████
████ effective. While it may not have been what he had in mind, Steve ████
████ Earle injects a good portion of his own personality into the ████
████ songs on J.T. In this context, it's much clearer what the son ████
████ learned from his father than in his own interpretations of these ████
████ tunes. Steve and his band the Dukes fill out the often minimal ████
████ arrangements of Justin's original recordings, and the acoustic ████
████ blues at the root of Justin's music runs parallel with the ████
████ country leanings of Earle's group, whose fiddles and slide ████
████ guitars liven up even the more somber tunes. That said, Justin's ████
████ songs sound perfectly natural coming from Steve's voice here. ████
████ Even if he changes the spirit and tone of the originals (putting ████
████ a bit more rock in "Maria," amping up the dread of "The Saint of ████
████ Lost Causes," and making the casual fatalism of "Harlem River ████
████ Blues" sound almost joyous), these stories come from a place and ████
████ a view of the world that he clearly recognizes. Without paternal ████
████ arrogance, Steve knows just how talented his son was, and his ████
████ performances show him doing his very best to make that clear. The ████
████ final song, "Last Words," is the only tune Steve wrote for this ████
████ album, and it's far simpler and more immediate than the songs ████
████ that precede it. It's not maudlin, but it's shot through with a ████
████ very real sadness that makes room for the puzzlement and anger ████
████ that any father who has had to bury his own child must feel. If ████
████ the final track is an act of public mourning, the rest of J.T. is ████
████ the loving and appreciative celebration Justin Townes Earle's ████
████ music deserves. ████
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