Jason Isbell has released another new live album, Live at Innings Festival, via Bandcamp.
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Jason Isbell has released the new live album, Reunions: Live At Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, on Bandcamp.
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Jason Isbell performed “Running with Our Eyes Closed” and “Overseas” on Colbert.
Read More “Jason Isbell Performs on Colbert”Musicians and Guitar Center Dump Fulltone
Mark Hoppus, Jason Isbell, and many other musicians are boycotting Fulltone pedals after the company’s founder showed his whole ass on social media:
Read More “Musicians and Guitar Center Dump Fulltone””What is this like night 4 of looting with 100% impunity. The p—- Mayor and Governor don’t give a s— about small businesses, and it’s never been more clear,” he wrote in a since-deleted post, adding a comment, “Ahh I feel better, and flushed out some prissy boys who were raised to pee sitting down. Now I’ll delete.”
After a Fullton user complained to the company’s email address, Fuller himself responded with an equally hostile tone as his original post. “I am begging you to sell your pedals because you actually don’t deserve them,” a screenshot of the email posted to a fanpage reads. “You are actually so racist that you believe the Good people who are protesting are the same as the Organized gang banger criminals who are looting ‘storefronts.’ Those ‘storefronts’ are good hardworking people’s lives and livelihoods. I’m fact if I see you with a Fulltone pedal I will tag it and break into your house and loot it from you, because it’s my free expression to do so… right?”
Jason Isbell Livestreams Release Show
Jason Isbell played a reunion release show in an audience free venue.
Read More “Jason Isbell Livestreams Release Show”Review: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions
Jason Isbell is telling ghost stories.
Sometimes, the things that happen to us in our lives register immediately. Other times, years or decades have to pass for us to fully comprehend how a person or occurrence changed us. Time and experience lend perspective. They give us the wisdom necessary to look back and re-read the pages of our lives, reconvene with our former selves. That’s why reflection is so important, and it’s also why hearing one of our greatest living songwriters look back and commune with the ghosts of his past is so thrilling. Isbell has long been a master of craft: his songs have conveyed the struggles of addiction, the healing and humanizing powers of love, the joys of parenthood. But never before has he captured so thoroughly the bizarre and beguiling feeling of spending a moment inside a memory. On Reunions, by delving into his own past, this master songwriter finds new things to say about experience and identity, and about how the very act of living changes the stories we think are worth telling about our lives. It might just be his greatest album yet.
Isbell has gone on record to say that the songs on this album were things he wanted to write 15 years ago, but there were barriers in his way. “In those days, I hadn’t written enough songs to know how to do it yet,” he said. He hadn’t yet honed his songcraft into the razor-sharp knife it is now. He hadn’t gotten sober, which meant murky nights and hungover days with not enough energy left over to focus on the deeply personal layers he would need to excavate to tell these stories. Perhaps most of all, he hadn’t given himself enough time or distance to understand just how deeply the ghosts in these songs would prove to haunt him. It’s unnerving the way that regrets or papered-over traumas from our pasts tend to worm their way deeper and deeper into the recesses of our minds as years go by. Eventually, you end up alone with your thoughts on some solitary night, with nothing to do but dredge up those specters and let them speak. Reunions is the sonic equivalent of that kind of reckoning.
Read More “Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions”Jason Isbell Guests on The Daily Show
Jason Isbell was on the latest episode of The Daily Show. He also performed “Only Children” with his wife, Amanda Shires.
Jason Isbell Moves Up Release Date
Jason Isbell has moved up his album release date to May 8th exclusively for indie record stores.
Jason Isbell Shares Essay on John Prine
Jason Isbell penned an essay for The New York Times on John Prine:
Of all the things I love about John’s songwriting, my favorite is the way he could step so completely into someone else’s life. John had the gift and the curse of great empathy. In songs like “Hello in There” and “Angel From Montgomery,” he wrote from a perspective clearly very different from his own — an old man and a middle-aged woman — but he kept the first-person point of view. He wrote those songs and the rest of his incredible debut album while a young man working as a letter carrier in Chicago. “Angel From Montgomery” opens with the line “I am an old woman/named after my mother.”
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires Cover Radiohead
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have teamed up together to cover Radiohead’s “High and Dry.”
Jason Isbell Covers John Prine
Jason Isbell has shared a cover of “Hello In There” by John Prine.
Jason Isbell – “What’ve I Done to Help”
Jason Isbell has shared the new song “What’ve I Done to Help.”
Jason Isbell Announces New Album
Jason Isbell will release his new album, Reunions, on May 15th. Today he’s shared the new song “Be Afraid.”
The Ally Coalition’s Sixth Annual Talent Show
The lineup for the The Ally Coalition’s Sixth Annual Talent Show has been announced.
Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell Perform on Fallon
Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell covered Bob Dylan’s “Everything is Broken” on Fallon.