[DADDY'S BOY/A WANTED MAN] With a roots-rock legacy in tow, Justin Townes Earle—son of Nashville hero Steve Earle—will be playing an Americana-inspired MFNW set on Sept. 9 with Frank Turner, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside and Mbillly.

Justin Townes Earle’s songs personify the tenets of honky-tonk ballads, but boast a strong, stripped-down rock ethic. Earle reflects on ex-lovers, drugs and his mom on his second album, 2009’s Midnight at the Movies, which also features a pared-down cover of the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait.” The album followed 2008’s The Good Life, which features songs Earle wrote in his adolescence.

Earle played around Nashville early on, but was plagued by a narcotics addiction that nearly took his life when he was 21. It wasn’t until an overdose hospitalized him that the young musician decided to clean up and focus on his hereditary songwriting ability, something he strives to make stand alone despite the long shadow cast by his father. In 2007, he released the much-anticipated EP Yuma on his own label, and was quickly signed to Bloodshot Records.