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...