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Justin Townes Earle

Living in the shadow of a famous father can be tough for an aspiring artist, especially if your father happens to be the hard-living country star Steve Earle. Named after one of his father's mentors Townes van Zandt, Justin Townes Earle was born on January 4th, 1982, abandoned by his father at the age of two and brought up by his mother in Nashville. His father, having temporarily managed to overcome his drug addiction issues, returned to the family home in 1994 at which point Justin began his own battle with substance abuse and by his early teens was an addict himself. Against t...