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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...

Tim Easton: You Don’t Really Know Me [Album Review] Tim EastonYou Don’t Really Know MeBlack Mesa Records [2021] For over twenty years, Tim Easton has been successfully combining elements of indie rock, folk and a little bit a blues to create his own genre that also consistently adds excellent songwriting and tons of heart to round out his musical ingredients. Easton is now on his tenth LP, You Don’t Really Know Me, and the new material finds Tim pushing himself forward with a new outlook on life. It is an album that was mostly written during the 2020 quarantine and...

[...] with songs as wonderful as the chiming rocker “Running Down Your Soul” and “Peace of Mind,” the latter with the prescient words Time doesn’t care about me, he reestablishes himself as a veteran performer whose best days may still lie ahead.