Steve Earle is releasing an album of Townes Van Zandt covers. Townes, 15 songs Earle "cherry picked [from] the career of one of the best songwriters that ever lived," will be released on May 12th by everyone's favorite Americana label, New West Records.
Earle and Van Zandt were introduced in 1972, when the latter heckled the young singer-songwriter at one of his shows. That meeting blossomed into a friendship which led Earle to name his son, Justin Townes Earle, after the the hard-living songwriter.
Earle is no stranger to covers, and Van Zandt has certainly been covered before.
Captain Obvious has a cut of Earle honoring Nirvana's "Breed", as well as a cover of Van Zandt's "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by Bill Baird.
Also, you can stream Earle's cover of "Lungs" at P4K. Tom Morello contributes guitar to the track. From the sounds of the first one, Earle is certainly going to do his old buddy justice.
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