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“My Mama raised me all by herself,” proclaimed Justin Townes Earle, last night at Houston’s revamped Fitzgerald’s. “And if you’ve been reading the papers, you know I’m still a handful.”
No amount of sugar can coat Earle’s recent arrest in Indianapolis, where he was charged with public intoxication and battery against a club promoter after a performance went awry and a dressing room left trashed. Earle’s self imposed check-in to a rehabilitation clinic left his last tour in limbo, with many wondering about the state of the Americana singer-songwriter.
“If you hang around the barber shop long enough, you’re going to get a haircut. I’d just gotten to a point with my drinking that it required a medical detox. Alcoholics and junkies tend to become stupid when it comes to that. We need giant catastrophes to hip us to the fact that we’re fucked up.”
Just weeks shy of his decision to climb aboard the wagon, Justin Townes Earle (son of maverick Texas songwriter Steve Earle; namesake of Townes Van Zandt), headed out on his first national tour since the sobering incident to promote his latest, and very well-received album Harlem River Blues.
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