Turn to the left! Turn to the right! Faaaaashiooon…beep beep! We’re here to Flashion Forward with a new UI feature in which we endeavor to explore the ever-expanding universe of sonic style. Each week, we’ll pluck a recently added interview from our warehouse of current clips and try to read between the artist’s sartorial lines. Today, we’re checking out Justin Townes Earle’s goods.
The disarmingly big-peepered and hollow-cheeked Nashville singer-songwriter already has many colorful lives behind him. Justin began writing in his early teens, spewing out knowing gems like “Ain’t Glad I’m Leaving:”
“Because I lie, cheat and gamble, and I steal from many men / Well, from Georgia to Los Angeles, Texas up to Maine, I’m a wanted man”
A former cheater, gambler, drug addict, booze-bingin’ liar and the scion of a good ol’ Southern family (his dad is Steve Earle) – he’ll have material to draw from for decades. And the bastard’s only 26 years old!
Oh, and he looks like a Calvin Klein model circa 1991 – pale skin, jagged features, lone rider eyes, urban cowboy clothes. Few men can make cowboy hats and swamp-hued button downs look like the height of chic, but Justin was clearly not cut from a mold to which regular mortals can relate.
To wit: his (surprise!) wise beyond his years (and possibly his species) perspective on living in NYC, below.
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