Justin Townes Earle" rocked Salt Lake City twice in one day. No small feat for any man. He started off at an instore performance at The Heavy Metal shop, and then followed it up with a performance at the State Room.



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The crowd spilling out into the frigid air



Justin Townes Earle

Earle’s music is of a genre I usually avoid when it starts swimming into the new country-pop. But his roots approach to folk-country makes it palatable and very enjoyable. His cover of a Carter family classic song also rang true as the crowd on the street listened intently to his one man show on the Heavy Metal Stage/Rear of Shop.



I particullarly enjoyed “Mama’s Eyes,” a cut off his new album. Get with it and pick up his lastest album Night at the Movies (out on Bloodshot) at the Heavy Metal Shop if you’d like to expand your horizons. And tell Kevin Jon Paxton sent ya.


(Jon Paxton)