What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Early life
Earle grew up in South Nashville Tennessee with his mother Carol Ann Hunter Earle. In 2007 he released a six-song EP called Yuma. In 2009 Earle co-billed The Big Surprise Tour with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Old Crow Medicine Show and The Felice Brothers[dead link] and released the album Midnight at the Movies.

Earle records with Bloodshot Records and has five released albums from 2007–2012. Justin Townes Earle (born January 4 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.