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Review: Tim Easton Opens Up BY LEE ZIMMERMAN Tim Easton/You Don’t Really Know Me/Black Mesa RecordsFour Out of Five Stars The term singer/songwriter has become something of a cliche over the years, a loose, nondescript handle to describe an artist that writes his or her own material and sings them, often single-handedly. It evolved out of an age-old tradition, with performers such as James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Jackson Browne giving it the standard definition that’s become the norm in the decades since.In reality, the description is uncommonly broad and ill-defined. It doesn’t reflect any particular genre or...

Tim Easton Gets Real on ‘You Don’t Really Know Me’ Maeri Ferguson That old saying about looking back in order to move forward may seem clichéd, but for roots rock mainstay Tim Easton, there’s some truth to it. His latest record, You Don’t Really Know Me, finds him coming out of some dark days and joining up with the same producers — Brad Jones and Robin Eaton — who steered the ship on his 1998 debut, like some sort of sweet full circle. Easton plays with minimal intervention, allowing his familiar, lived-in rasp and acoustic guitar strums to warm us...

Tim Easton “You Don’t Really Know Me” Russell Murphy Timeout for a lifestyle change. It may seem odd to say, but for some folks the pandemic, with all its restrictions and limitations, may have come along at a good time. A chance to slow down, take stock, reflect on life, clean up the act if needs be. Tim Easton, who has been roots-rocking his way across the globe these past twenty years certainly thinks so, and has produced an album conceived during lockdown which reflects on how he arrived at a personal crossroads after perhaps too much damaging behaviour. The...

Tim Easton – You Don’t Really Know Me BY CHIP FRAZIER Nashville-based singer-songwriter Tim Easton is releasing his new album, “You Don’t Really Know Me”, tomorrow August 27th. It is no doubt some of his finest work, which is saying a lot for someone with a highly acclaimed 20-year career under his belt. It is also his most personal album. Although it seems trite to call it a recovery album, that is in essence what it is. Easton has recently suffered through a divorce and has gotten sober. So instead of characters that normally haunt his songs, we get a...