Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Today we're going to be featuring an on-court presentation of a great interview I did

with the singer-songwriter Justin Towns Earl.

I spoke to him in 2019 the year before his

tragic death and I think the interview captures a lot of what made him incredibly special.

So here's that in the meantime again happy new year and we'll see

you next week with a brand new episode.

Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm in the studio with one of the best young songwriters,

young-ish, songwriters in America, Justin Towns Earl, who has a beautiful new album called The Saint of Lost

Causes and welcome man.

Thanks for having me.

How do you feel age-wise?

Are you feeling young or are you feeling young-ish or are you feeling older than your years?

I've been on this earth too long. You know? It is. It's been a long rough life.

But I mean that just happens. I mean but you don't get to write

songs the way that I write songs if you don't you know live. But you've talked about

that being a little bit of a trap to that idea right I mean it could be dangerous

thinking you got to live to provide

Chris for the art well it is it's like well you know what I'm saying is you don't

got to shoot speedballs to be able to write songs you don't got to be all

fucked up to write songs I know songwriters like a Joe Pug, you know and I always

call me such a nice guy and he was like you know college educated not a

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