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Music Tuesday #101: Who's a lost cause?

How come some music can stop me in my tracks and draws all my attention, no matter what I was doing?
Today we get into some Americana by the son of Steve Earle, who has some big shoes to fill if you ask me.  I am a bit wary of sons of famous musicians, only a few manage to live up to their family name.  Justin Earle has my blessing. How bleak the lyrics and how dreamy the music is for this week. I just had to share it with you.

Lyrics are important, they can really take a song to anothe level, something Justin Earle does for sure here:

I'm a bad dream
I'm not a nightmare, I'm too goody for that
Let's just say I'm the last thing you wanna see coming
I'm the reason they say watch your back
For so long, I was like a wounded hound
Backed into a chainlink fence
The world at large was just a big, mean kid
Poking me through the fence with a stick
Ain't nobody goin' back
It takes a whole lotta hurt
Therein lies one of life's biggest lessons
Ain't got nothin' to do with deserve
Just pray to the Saint of Lost Causes

As the review by Jason Heller of NPR stated: "It may not be anywhere near as audacious as hope; still, cradled in his homespun warmth, it feels like the darkness before the dawn." (Source: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=7227860180) 

Justin Townes Earle - The Saint of Lost Causes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pXYG1ZITk

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