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Justin Rutledge

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Toronto, Canada

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Alternative Country

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Born

1979

Active
---Present...

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Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Be a Man	7,014	4 users
Special	7,126	4 users
Too Sober to Sleep	11,341	4 users
A Penny for the Band	6,054	3 users
Everyone's in Love	7,471	3 users

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Locked In The Trunk Of...	Kapuskasing Coffee	A Penny for the Band
Be a Man

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"Justin Rutledge" (born January 3, 1979) is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter.
Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences, both of the literary and music world, include Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Richard Brautigan and E. E. Cummings.
In 2006, Justin Rutledge was named Toronto singer-songwriter of the year by NOW magazine.
His critically acclaimed lyrics are sometimes linked by music writers to his time as a university English major; he was editor-in-chief of a University of Toronto literary journal..
Rutledge was born and grew up in the Junction neighbourhood in Toronto, a working class community centered around an intersection of four railway lines. He was raised in an Irish-Catholic family and grew up with aspirations of becoming a writer. To that end he studied English literature, with a major in modern poetry, at the University of Toronto. He dropped out after three years of school as his musical career got in the way. Rutledge told Maclean's in an interview that his backup plan would be to finish his university studies in English "if this music thing doesn't work."