re: Zac Brown is "covering" Jason Isbell on ESPN right now

upvote... it's my favorite isbell song.

the lyrics aren't meant for corporate america though

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"Dress Blues"

What can you see from your window?
I can't see anything from mine.
Flags on the side of the highway
and scripture on grocery store signs.
Maybe eighteen was too early.
Maybe thirty or forty is too.
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
before he sent down his angels for you?

Mamas and grandmamas love you
'cause that's all they know how to do.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Your wife said this all would be funny
when you came back home in a week.
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
Your baby would just about be here.
Your very last tour would be up
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.

Mamas and grandmamas love you.
American boys hate to lose.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
Nobody showed up to protest,
just sniffle and stare.
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
and there's silent old men from the corps.
What did they say when they shipped you away
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

Nobody here could forget you.
You showed us what we had to lose.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

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Zac Brown changed that line on his version

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I have never heard this song by him.

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his first record is my favorite. even over southeastern

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I have an Isbell "block"

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why??

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I bought that first record with the 400 unit

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that record wasn't great. sirens of the ditch is though. and southeastern.

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I don't think Zac Brown is on the same level as Isbell, but he and his band do get a lot of hate they shouldn't. Plenty of talent in there. They've made some shitty songs, but also have some pretty good ones and do solid covers.

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Well said

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“If you want more popular country artists to sing songs that have some real meaning, don’t be pissed at the ones who do.”

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If you only know isbell's songs off southeastern you are missing out on a LOT of great music.

while it may not be pleasing to the Isbell and DBT fans on here...(which I am one)...this happens all the time...the original artist may not have the polish that the mainstream guy does...so the mainstream guy gets it and brings it to the masses...that song is great...and should get to more ears...if that is by way of ZBB, then so be it..you better know Isbell realizes this...

how about another ZBB song that was great..."Colder Weather"...you think Levi Lowrey gets the credit for that song he deserves?


or "Never Leave Harlan Alive"...Brad Paisley covered it and brought it to the mainstream...they even use it on that show "Justified"...hardly anybody knows it was written by Darrell Scott and that his version is ten times better...

it is what it is...kudos for ZBB getting it out there and for Isbell in realizing that is what it would take...and of course that he would make $$$

they also have their own label and that is what Blackberry Smoke and Levi Lowrey are on...Southern Ground Artists, Inc.