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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 or 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 that you got to live to provide

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

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