Tim Easton is a Joshua Tree, California

Joshua Tree, California

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-based American guitarist

Guitarist

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 and singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 playing rock and roll music.

Biography

Easton was raised in Akron, Ohio

Akron, Ohio

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, forming the band Kosher Spears while at college. He travelled abroad for a time, busking in London, Paris, and Dublin, and on his return to the US in the mid-1990s he joined The Haynes Boys. When the band split up, Easton embarked on a solo career, with his debut album, Special 20, released in 1998. He subsequently relocated to California, signed a deal with EMI Publishing, and a record deal with New West Records.

Easton won the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards

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 Vox Pop award for 'Best Americana Song' with "Burgundy Red". His album also won the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards

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 Vox Pop vote for best Album Packaging.

He is married and has a daughter, Ellington.

Albums

• Special 20 (1998)

• The Truth About Us (2001)

1. Half a Day
2. Carry Me
3. Downtown Lights
4. Get Some Lonesome
5. Happy Now
6. Bad Florida
7. Soup Can Telephone Game Conversation
8. Out of Your Life
9. I Would Have Married you
10. When the Lights Out
11. Don't Walk Alone

• Break Your Mother's Heart (2003), New West

1. Poor, Poor LA
2. Black Hearted Ways
3. John Gilmartin
4. Hanging Tree
5. Lexington Jail
6. Hummingbird
7. Amor Azul
8. Watching the Lightning
9. Man That You Need
10. True Ways

• Ammunition (2006)

1. Black Dog
2. Oh People
3. Next to You
4. Not Today
5. Back to the Pain
6. I Wish You Well
7. Before the Revolution
8. News Blackout
9. Dear ol' Song and Dance
10. J.P.M.F.Y.F.
11. C-Dub
12. I Don't Wanna Come Home
13. Sittin' On Top of the World

• One for the Ditch (2006)

• Porcupine (2009)

1. Burgundy Red
2. Broke My Heart
3. Porcupone
4. The Young Girls
5. Stormy
6. Stone's Throw
7. 7th Wheel
8. Get What I Got
9. Baltimore
10. Northbound
11. Long Cold Night In Bed
12. Goodbye Amsterdam

• Beat the Band (2011) - Tim Easton and the Freelan Barons

Side 1:

1. Maid Of The Mist
2. Daily Life
3. What Do You Live For
4. Beat The Band
5. Did Your Mother Teach You That

Side 2:

1. Nobody Plays Piano In Athens, GA
2. Open Letter
3. Until It Kills You
4. She Takes Her Time
5. Broke Just Like Any Problem

• Tim Easton: Since 1966 | Volume 1 (2011) - Tim Easton

1. Looking Out (For Joe Strummer)
2. Summertime Heart
3. To Katie
4. The Weight Of Changing Everything
5. Two Of Us
6. California Bars
7. Highway 62 Love Song
8. Festival Song
9. Idolene
10. Baby Come Home
11. Why Oh Why

External links

• Tim Easton's website
• Tim's Facebook Fan Page
• Tim on iTunes
• Tim Easton at MySpace
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• Easton/Stagger/Phillips at MySpace