Watch Jason Isbell and Steve Earle lead a show-closing singalong of “Harlem River Blues” at a Nashville tribute to late songwriter Justin Townes Earle.
, who organized the concert in his son’s memory and reunited his group the Dukes as the house band.
Earle, the irascible leader of Nashville’s Great Credibility Scare of the late Eighties, introduced each performer with a few words. Of Isbell and Shires, who performed separately, he said they were essential to the night’s lineup. Buddy Miller, he praised as the greatest living country singer. And he credited Shooter Jennings, the son of Waylon Jennings, with making him aware of the struggles Justin faced growing up in the shadow of a famous father.
The performers offered their own memories too. Jennings spoke about living in New York during the same time as Justin and then sang “Workin’ for the MTA,” off Justin’s high-water mark, the 2010 album. Isbell, having trouble with his electric guitar before his reading of “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” quipped that Justin would have chastised him for not playing an acoustic.
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