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You guys, this GQ article on Jason Isbell is awesome. If you already like him, you'll like him more. If you don't like him, there may not be hope for you.

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Isbell is specific about engines and cars and guitars in particular. He is wary about what success has brought him. “It's easy for a lot of folks, and very tempting, to just say, ‘Hey, me and my people are taken care of. I'm fine.’ And that's just the road to ruin, if you ask me. You lose your art that way.” But last year he did allow himself one extravagance, when a chance presented itself to buy one of the most famous guitars ever made: a 1959 Les Paul formerly owned by Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ed King. Isbell bought the guitar, known to the world as Redeye, from King's widow. “It was a ridiculous purchase, and I had to play a bunch of weird birthday parties and shit to cover it, so nobody else was affected by the ridiculousness of my guitar purchase,” he said. “But I'm so happy that I did it, because, you know, I don't go in there and polish the Grammys every day, but if I'm home and I have a minute, I take out the Redeye and play it. It sounds like I wanted my guitar to sound when I was 15 in Green Hill. ”

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Ok, where do I start with Isbell? (I'm an album guy.)
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P.D.X. wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:55 pm Ok, where do I start with Isbell? (I'm an album guy.)
Southeastern and then sequentially (by release date moving to current day) from there. Then go back and check out his stuff before he got sober (i.e. before Southeastern). There's some diamonds in there as well.
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brian wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:57 pm
P.D.X. wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:55 pm Ok, where do I start with Isbell? (I'm an album guy.)
Southeastern and then sequentially (by release date moving to current day) from there. Then go back and check out his stuff before he got sober (i.e. before Southeastern). There's some diamonds in there as well.
Exactly this. I'd also add that he's released stuff as Jason Isbell, and he's also released stuff as Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (his backing band). Spotify categorizes these entitites as separate. Brian's point remains: start with Southeastern and move sequentially, (Something More Than Free, then The Nashville Sound).
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Ok, definitely prefer the more upbeat / multi-instrument-arranged songs. The sadboi folk jams are tough for me to sit through.

eta: playing some nice sounding stuff from 400 Unit after spotify went into radio mode
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P.D.X. wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:10 pm Ok, definitely prefer the more upbeat / multi-instrument-arranged songs. The sadboi folk jams are tough for me to sit through.

eta: playing some nice sounding stuff from 400 Unit after spotify went into radio mode
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Southeastern is hard for me to listen to all the way through, but if the songs come up on my shuffle, there's not one I'd skip.
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P.D.X. wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:10 pm Ok, definitely prefer the more upbeat / multi-instrument-arranged songs. The sadboi folk jams are tough for me to sit through.

eta: playing some nice sounding stuff from 400 Unit after spotify went into radio mode
You definitely have to be in a certain mood for a song like "Elephant" from Southeastern but it's an exquisite song.
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Until their latest album, I'm pretty sure I'd never heard a Nada Surf not named "Popular". That song is awful, so I'm surprised how much I really enjoy their newest one.

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"Let Go" is a tremendous album. Start there and go in order.
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I heard this on KEXP a few days/weeks ago (who can tell right now), but hadn't watched the video until last night. Its great:

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That was really nice!

(BONUS - the next video that YT auto-played for me after that was an interview with the two of them, and their lazy, old dogs were draped across the couch behind them)
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KEXP had a Live DJ set this morning...from the DJ's front lawn. Pretty hilarious.

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For the subset of people on here that both listen to artists who have Bandcamp pages and purchase media/merch, BC is giving artists 100% of the cut from sales today.

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P.D.X. wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 2:30 pm For the subset of people on here that both listen to artists who have Bandcamp pages and purchase media/merch, BC is giving artists 100% of the cut from sales today.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/ban ... fundraiser
I *think* bandcamp are doing that for at least the next 3 first Fridays of the month, if any of you don't get see this message in the next 8 hours.
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P.D.X. wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 2:30 pm For the subset of people on here that both listen to artists who have Bandcamp pages and purchase media/merch, BC is giving artists 100% of the cut from sales today.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/ban ... fundraiser
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This not my favorite song, but it's the closest to my platonic ideal of a pop song. See if you're not pumping your fist in the air by the end of the song.

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Also there’s something to be said for listening to an album from start to finish like the old days. Just put on track 1 and go.
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brian wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 6:32 pm Also there’s something to be said for listening to an album from start to finish like the old days. Just put on track 1 and go.
Love doing this when I’m cutting grass or another task I know will be album length.
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Same. With the exception of “Shiny Happy People”, I’m an album completist.
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And you listened to them again?
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How fucking good is First Aid Kit? I mean really.
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BSF21 wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 10:35 pm How fucking good is First Aid Kit? I mean really.
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P.D.X. wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 12:38 am
BSF21 wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 10:35 pm How fucking good is First Aid Kit? I mean really.
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Oh man I am a big completist. If I don’t think I can finish it, I won’t start one.

I once drove from College Station to St. Louis and didn’t skip a damn song. About 8 hours in it became a thing and I had to see it through.
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Isbell heads, his interview with Rog Bennett on Men in Blazers today is fantastic.
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govmentchedda wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:41 pm Isbell heads, his interview with Rog Bennett on Men in Blazers today is fantastic.
He was also very good yesterday on The Daily Show.
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govmentchedda wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:41 pm Isbell heads, his interview with Rog Bennett on Men in Blazers today is fantastic.
I just finished listening to it, and was coming here to post the same thing.
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"Reunions" is really good, but it feels short.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 3:23 pm "Reunions" is really good, but it feels short.
It is short. And I’m through two listens. I need it to marinate. Couple of songs that I like a lot but some that I need to grow on me. I also didn’t love southeastern the first few times I listened.
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Like it. Opening track and closing track especially.
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Three times through. Happy that I have new stuff from Isbell and BJ right now.
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Isbell and Amanda Shires played the new album from the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville.



We watched this last night and its excellent.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 9:12 am Isbell and Amanda Shires played the new album from the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville.



We watched this last night and its excellent.
I watched that yesterday. It's great, and the songs I didn't love on my first few listens (Runnin with our Eyes Closed and Be Afraid) I liked better stripped down.
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