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