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re: Jason Isbell new record, plus 5 night run at the Ryman
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:40 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:40 pm to Pettifogger
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Cumberland Gap
just gave this a listen for the first time...musically...eh...could be better...will probably be an opener for the live show to get everybody hyped up....but the content I have no problem with...
there is an epidemic running across Appalachia and to avoid the conversation is naïve and stupid...I give props to him...wanna talk about politics?...ok...at least he is talking about all of it...Jason here seems to be willing to discuss the poverty and raging drug use in that area of the country that effects whites....the fact that the mines being shut down and logging industry decreasing...due to leftist policies...have done nothing good for Appalachia.....hell the song "Methamphetamine" by Old Crow Medicine Show discusses the same topic...
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Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:46 pm to SthGADawg
I've got no problem with the content in either song. They are just not good songs. He's trying too hard to be "woke". He has conveyed similar messages in the past much more successfully without trying this hard. Even on the last album he approaches poverty and white trashiness on Children of Children. But that song was a fricking work of art.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:55 pm to tilco
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Children of Children
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But that song was a fricking work of art.
yes it was...really hit home for me...my mom was real young as well..and Jason and I are very close in age...
Posted on 5/1/17 at 2:08 pm to Uncle JackD
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such a shame he had to ruin a possibly great album with his political views.
Is this true? I haven't heard anything about the new album. Did he go all Drive-By Truckers on us?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 2:54 pm to sweetwaterbilly
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Did he go all Drive-By Truckers on us?
I don't think its that extreme from what I've heard...dude writes about his own life...always has...if sobering up, getting married, and having a little girl has changed his view of the world...im kinda anxious to hear about it...
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:36 am to SthGADawg
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:03 am to sweetwaterbilly
That would be okay. American Band might be their best album. Definitely top three.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:03 am to HogX
Great song.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:07 am to witty alias
He put it on Twitter this morning and said he considered it to be one of the best he's ever written. Won't argue.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:28 am to witty alias
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Great song.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:49 am to HogX
Now that's more like the Isbell I fell in love with.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:45 pm to DVA Tailgater
No shite. Great song. Hopefully the rest of the album is more of this and less of those other two songs.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:03 pm to DVA Tailgater
Still reflecting on "Vampires." Dammit man, that's a strong song.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:54 pm to DVA Tailgater
the dude just cant help but be debbie downer. He's great at it and its a pretty great song.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:25 pm to AUjim
The knee jerk reaction I had was downer but after further thought there was something charming about the make the most of your time together and appreciate it fully story
Posted on 5/19/17 at 12:44 am to DVA Tailgater
Seriously one of his best. I am blown away by Vampires. I got the same feeling from that as I did hearing Elephant the first time.
I know he can jam and all that, but he's at his best with slow personal songs like this.
I know he can jam and all that, but he's at his best with slow personal songs like this.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:23 am to HogX
damn that song is good
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:30 am to BLIZZAKE7
just gave Vampires a listen...first reaction...very good...I love how he has incorporated Amanda into his sound and on this one the message is doubled down by the fact she is his wife and not just some female lending her voice for an album.....makes it more sincere...dude has got to be one of the greatest songwriters of a generation for sure.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:55 am to SthGADawg
i am 41 and to me his is the greatest songwriter of my generation of music.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:45 pm to hawkeye007
Hope the album is split 50/50, at least, with songs like vampire and the other two I've been trying to ignore.
He has me sold as the best singer/songwriter in all of music currently based off his last two albums. Please don't give me reason to change my mind.
He has me sold as the best singer/songwriter in all of music currently based off his last two albums. Please don't give me reason to change my mind.
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