This Sunday please enjoy country traditionalist Justin Townes Earle followed by Nashville recording artist Butterfly Boucher. Townes was born in Nashville and is the son of the remarkable Steve Earle (fitting that last week we featured the son of Bob Dylan) and was named after Steve Earle’s hero Townes Van Zandt. Townes played with the Distributors and the Swindlers before playing guitar and keyboards for his fathers band, the Dukes but was fired for his appetite for drugs. Now clean and sober, Townes has gone solo. I hope you enjoy his music as much as I do.
I’d heard Butterfly Boucher at the Doug Fir here in Portland, but didn’t get a chance to talk with her. Months later the Ten out of Tenn tour came through Portland and stayed in my home. Butterfly was with them, but sadly I was out of town. I saw twitpics of their stay, and it looked fun. I got free shampoo out of it. And then I happened to run into her in an airport in Chicago, even sitting next to her on the next leg to Nashville. We talked about the difficulty involved in making music, her life as an artist and what she has planned for the future. She was as delightful in person as she is talented in her music. If you get a chance, check her out live. Here is her newest, Just One Tear:
