Tim Easton is a Joshua Tree, California-based American guitarist and singer-songwriter playing rock and roll music A singer songwriter from the alt-country mecca of Columbus, Ohio, Tim Easton writes of long boozy nights and day jobs. Easton was also the front man for The Haynes Boys, one of the best rock bands no one west of the Olentangy River ever heard. Like the bristly critter of its title, Tim Easton’s album Porcupine has some spikes in its hindquarters. And the Ohio-born, Joshua Tree, California-based singer-songwriter says the primarily aggressive style of the record was definitely by design.