Justin Townes Earle: In Memoriam
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Underclass Strikes Back
Steve Earl: "I've always been a street-level kind of person. I want to go to the darkest, dimmest, most dangerous bar you got" He says he grew up with his mother who worked three jobs and gravitated toward dangerous people. The song was inspired by Eric Gardner getting choked out by cops; it's about how we have traded marginalized groups like black or LGBTQ people over in recent years. Steve Earl: "If you keep poking at the underclass, what you call the underclass ... eventually, we're going to strike back."
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