Justin Townes Earle Does Americana Music Awards

Justin Townes Earle has been added to the Americana Music Awards Show on Thursday, September 18th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. As a nominee for Emerging Artist of the Year, Earle joins Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Jason & the Scorchers and Jim Lauderdale on the historic Ryman stage to celebrate great Americana artists from around the country. Joan Baez will be making a special appearance at the show to pick up the Spirit of Americana, Free Speech of Music  Award, to be presented by Justin’s father, legendary musician, songwriter, actor and activist Steve Earle. The 7th Annual Americana Festival and Conference will offer seminars and panels from September 17 – 20th as well as many great performances.  For more information visit http://www.americanamusic.org/site.php

In other news, a spanking new video for the title track has just been completed, look for the exclusive premiere on Amazon.com on August 11th! The video was directed by Nashville’s Travis Nicholson who has worked on films like Junkyard Dog, Intolerable Cruelty and The Man Who Wasn’t There.