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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9495 Registered: 05-2005 |
What dreadful news. He was just 38. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music -country/justin-townes-earle-dead-died-o bit-1048627/ | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2004 Registered: 08-2006 |
This is terrible, indeed. Many years back, when Steve Earle was doing a teaching residency at the Old Town School of Folk Music, a friend of mine who teaches at the school brought this tall, intense kid to play the open mic night I ran at my local bar. He got up and just blew everyone away. I immediately offered him a gig and he happily accepted. That’s when Wendy, the bar owner, walked over, looked him up and down and asked how old he was. He said, “18.” Wendy and I both groaned and she told him he couldn’t be in the bar without a parent or guardian. He said, “my dad wouldn’t go to a bar.” He walked away disappointed and my friend, who brought him, whispered in my ear that his dad was Steve Earle. RIP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9511 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a great story, Rob. Thank you for posting it. | ||
| andrewnz Unregistered guest |
From stuff in NZ today - The late Justin Townes Earle was someone who was wild, original of thought and purposefully thoughtful, writes Vicki Anderson. https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/mu sic/122664906/remembering-justin-townes- earle-we-were-a-12ft-beast-and-we-were-h owling?cid=app-iPhone | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9516 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Andrew. |