Harlem River Blues $2.99 at Amazon today only!

Today only, you can order Harlem River Blues MP3s from Amazon.com for $2.99!!


Buy them today and get your CD and LP tomorrow!

Harlem River Blues on NPR First Listen

Harlem River Blues is now streaming on NPR's First Listen until September 14.

Harlem River Blues Tracklisting

1. Harlem River Blues
2. One More Night In Brooklyn
3. Move Over Mama
4. Working for the MTA
5. Wanderin'
6. Slippin' and Slidin'
7. Christchurch Woman
8. Learning to Cry
9. Ain't Waitin'
10. Rogers Park
11. Harlem River Blues (Reprise)

CD and LP are now available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Several of these have been played live over the past year or so. I'm looking forward to hearing One More Night in Brooklyn. Anyone else have an early favorite?

Release Date For Harlem River Blues Announced

Justin Townes Earle's third album is scheduled to be released on September 14! The following is from Bloodshot Records press release.

Woody Guthrie once said, “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” On Harlem River Blues, Justin Townes Earle takes that lesson to heart, making a statement without making a wall of sound.

Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the Movies, Harlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Featuring guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Bryn Davies and Calexico’s Paul Niehaus, it’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others – and it’s great. Like good fried chicken, a well-cut suit and a hand made guitar, there’s heaven to be found in the beautifully crafted simpler things.

Sporting some of those well-cut suits, Justin Townes Earle spent 2009 pounding the proverbial pavement, touring constantly and wowing audiences worldwide. That hard working earnestness has paid off, to say the least. Justin won the Best New and Emerging Artist at the 2009 Americana Music Awards. Midnight at the Movies was named one of the best records of last year by Amazon, got four stars in Rolling Stone and found a sweet spot in the blackened hearts of fans and critics alike. GQ magazine named him one of the 25 best dressed men in the world in 2010. He also appeared on HBO’s Treme with his dad, troubadour Steve Earle, on whose Grammy Award winning Townes record Justin also guests.

As versed in Mance Lipscomb as he is in M. Ward and sporting Marc Jacobs suspenders, Justin Townes Earle is a man beyond eras. With Harlem River Blues, a record that’s perfect for late Indian summer nights on either the front porch or fire escape, Justin’s found yet another way to be a timeless original.

Justin Townes Earle sings "Harlem River Blues" & "Louisiana 1927"

Thanks to uploader usbomb99.

Harlem River Blues and Northwest Festivals

Justin Townes Earle has completed work on his third album. It's going to be called Harlem River Blues. Justin recently talked to Paste Magazine where he spilled the details.

“I drove over the Harlem River one time and it was just the most desolate-looking thing I’d ever seen,” Earle says of the body of water that gave his forthcoming album its title. “It’s way up in the northeast of Manhattan, it comes down out of the Bronx, down into Harlem, and it’s just the nastiest body of water you’ve ever seen in your life. And I guess it just kind of inspired me a little bit.”

The entire article can be found here.

Also, Justin has been named as a performer for Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival as well as Portland's MusicFestNW. Both festivals are held in early September. More info on exact dates when I know more.