“I thought that, given the way things are now, it was maybe my responsibility to make a record that spoke to and for people who didn’t vote the way that I did,” Earle explains.
Earle, Tom Petty's ex-wife, the Tupac Shakur estate and the bands Hole and Soundgarden filed a class-action lawsuit over the 2008 fire that damaged or destroyed as many as 500,000 master recordings held by Universal Music Group (UMG).