Following the release of his fifth-studio-album, Single Mothers, Justin Townes Earle has announced the release of the companion record, Absent Fathers which was was recorded alongside Single Mothers as a double album, but as Justin began to sequence it, he felt each half needed to make its own statement and they took on their own identities.

Absent Fathers will be released on 12th January 2015 and tour dates are below;

17 Jan    GLASGOW, Oran Mor (Celtic Connections)
18 Jan    GATESHEAD, Caedmon Hall
19 Jan    MANCHESTER, Band on the Wall
21 Jan    OSLO, John Dee
23 Jan    STOCKHOLM, Sodra Teatern
24 Jan    GOTHENBURG, Pustervik
25 Jan    MALMO, KB
26 Jan    BERLIN, Grüner Salon
28 Jan    HAMBURG, Nochtspeicher
29 Jan    AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
30 Jan    GRONINGEN, Oosterpoort
31 Jan    ROTTERDAM, Rotown
01 Feb    UTRECHT, Tivoli Vredenburg
03 Feb    LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club
05 Feb    BRISTOL, The Tunnels
06 Feb    LONDON, Union Chapel

Loose Records will be releasing both albums together as a specially packaged double vinyl LP to coincide with the release of Absent Fathers