Justin Townes Earl (USA) + Wagons

Overview

If you're a fan of both types of music â€" country and western â€" this could be the show for you. Justin Townes Earle, a Nashville singer-songwriter, is one of the younger exponents of authentic roots based music coming from the land of the large, the USA.

Alongside peers and pioneers Gillian Welch, The Handsome Family, his father Steve Earle and Lambchop etc, the young Earle takes root firmly in the traditions of yesteryear with archaic recordings and sounds and those Southern twangy inflections.

Justin Townes Earl â€" his middle name a homage to the late country legend Townes Van Zandt â€" can traverse much of the country sound, with a quality of melodies and penmanship that lifts his music above a tribute, adding to the rich history of his genre-mates. 

There is a diversity and timelessness to his music from authentic Grand Old Opry, Johhny Cash-esque stompers to storytelling numbers like the sombre, introspective title track to his latest LP Midnight At The Movies.

If you like your grits served up with a bit more quirk, a little less authentic country but still with loads of charisma and stories, then you should be happy that Wagons, the Melbourne collective formed around songwriter Henry Wagons are doing the whole tour with Earle.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKEiePB6IVM