I really like it. It's definitely a, idk, heavy(?) listen, it's not really quite light enough to put on repeat and breeze through a few times...but all the songs really sit with you. Which is a really nice change.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
He seems a bit young for the "all of these songs are about alcoholism" album, doesn't he?
― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
not too young for a (reportedly) violent alcoholic
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
He's a major talent, and this is probably his best record. It's also pretty down and not all that fun. Best news is there are no more Stax-style ballads like Cigarettes and Wine.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
i liked that >:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
"Live Oak" and "Elephant" needed to be Truckerized.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 June 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
omg SO happy he's over that 'soul singer' bullshit
Haven't heard this yet, wanna make time to really listen. Color me cautiously optimistic. I recall saying to my then-wife when we saw DBT on the DD tour, "If that kid ever goes solo, he's gonna blow the fuck up." I'd like to be vindicated, at last, because up until now, his was a case of seriously wasted talent IMO (stray songs on various solo albums notwithstanding).
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 22 June 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
This is good if staid in that singer-songwriterly way.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 June 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jason-isbell-as-undislikable-as-it-gets/2014/01/29/606904b6-8908-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html
But as earnest as he sounded Tuesday, Isbell’s performance still registered somewhere between excellent and just fine. He was undislikable.
The undislikables occupy a unique space in pop music. Their songs are filled with personality and emotion, but never too much. They experiment, but not without safety goggles. They put a premium on craftsmanship and confidence, often stamping out any whiffs of danger or weirdness. And their music seems unimpeachable, leaving you with an in-the-middle feeling that makes you wonder whether these people have achieved a state of enlightenment or have been trapped in purgatory.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Commenters on that review are outraged by Chris Richard's stance. I understand what he means.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
p sure the word is 'nice'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Is he really lopping together all singer songwriters? Honestly, guys with guitars who bare their souls are so unhip they might as well be weirdo outliers. If Steve Earle and John prine are his play it safe peeps, isbell should be pretty cool with this.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
He calls the Roots undislikeable as well. I think he means NPR-friendly
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
"Elephant" was probably my favorite song of last year, and "Relatively Easy" wasn't far behind. If he ever writes a whole album that good...
― Simon H., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:42 (ten years ago) link
He is an obvious talent. The problem is, anybody's songs are going to sound better when they're played by DBT.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Which is doubly frustrating because the actual DBT songwriters have been churning out less and less interesting material over the last few albums (imo).
― Simon H., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
Southeastern goes way beyond nice. And it's not just about the lyrics. From my Nashville Scene ballot, "In The Shadows of the Warm Red Comments" http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2014/01/14th-annual-etc-in-shadows-of-warm-red.html Jason Isbell's Here We Rest often relied on the words, and some live versions were even shakier, but on Southeastern he's got his tuneful tightness back (playing a lot of the mostly acoustic instruments himself; the 400 Unit plug in on cue and on point, but don't get co-billing). Time to put the spotlight and the pressure back on himself--the voice was never a problem, which was a problem. No matter how wasted and/or woolgathering he got, could always release a few more of those high lonesome sweet bluesy Lowell George notes, and tell himself everything was still okay and not okay, in that alone-together way.The words are better too, deep and horizontally active enough, back and forth in time and space--the richest lode is the opener, "Cover Me Up", with some kind of imaginative but not imaginary although certainly motorvatingly metaphorical invalid, with strong lungs, calling for "medical assistance, or a magnolia breeze", while he and significant other are riding a flood in a cold house "I ain't chopping no wood...hang up your wet dress" and get that cover workin'. This is also very tender-sounding, since the lonesome monster is now ready to face whatever reality may and will surely bring--whole album's known knowns wed to known unknowns: very family values, very commuting-community-minded, very country in its way (so this only looks like a Paste list, see?)
― dow, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Ironically, it's been more and more "interesting," imo - in terms of ideas and surprising detours - just less and less strong. They were such a great outlet for Isbell, because he can always be counted on a for a couple of absolutely outstanding tracks per effort, just not quite an entire outstanding album yet. He's young, though. 15 years younger than Hood, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 January 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
I read xchuckx E. being harsh on Jason's vocals
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
― Simon H., Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:57 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So wrong
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
DBT's new album is a bore though.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
"Super 8" is the song that needed the Truckers the worst - songwriting as strong as "Elephant" but such painfully boring country-rock.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
i saw the Truckers live last month
- new bass player is distractingly goofy. he's fine as a player but he's like this grinning jackolantern all the time, it's SO weird
- setllist was suuuper uneven, going from blistering rock into pensive cooley so much it was giving me whiplash
- i've seen them four times before this show, and this is the first time i was almost completely bored. they were fine, but fine aint a dbt show
idk
they seem to be focusing on sounding cleaner, singing better etc but their rawness was the appeal for me. i love them but idk who this band is now?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/the_voice_reportedly_asks_jaso.html
'The Voice' producer reportedly asks Jason Isbell to audition for the NBC show
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
He was great last week at this Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute show i went to last week at the Fox Theater (great venue by the way)
http://music.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/13/concert-review-lynyrd-skynyrd-tribute-concert-brings-peter-frampton-gregg-allman-and-more-to-the-fox-theatre/
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
xpost loooooooool that is hilarious and sad
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
Sad for the producer's cred, happy otherwise: he scanned the invite into his twitter feed (so that's the basis of "reportedly," from the hoss's mouth) and considered what his audition material might consist of (I suggested he hold out for Dancing With The Stars). Would love to see Blake Shelton's big ol' half-bright face if he did come out there on The Voice (that's the one Shelton's on, right?)
― dow, Thursday, 20 November 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
("lemon-difficult": excellent, especially if related to #DonLemonReporting, but either way.)
― dow, Thursday, 20 November 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/7mAFiPVs3tM
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 November 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
The new record is streaming on NPR right now. It's very good, similar in sound to Southeastern. He'll never rock like he did with DBT but he'll probably end up the more popular act.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 13 July 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
From Rolling Country, my initial impressions:
Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free: doesn't travel with the more sustained undertone of excitement found in Southeastern---recorded sober, apparently!---but "Are you takin' the grown-up dose?" is still the question, or one of 'em, and it's often remarkable what can sprout from dry, quiet starting over, especially when the past gets out of bed and comes cruising through one's present-day/night of carefully worked out details, brushing them just a hair or three from conventional alignment. Or not, in which case it's conspicuous by etc., but always the singer's cue."Children of Children" and "24 Frames" will be the relatively big (npr) radio cuts, if any are, but most tunes as well as words tend to take fetching turns.http://www.npr.org/2015/07/08/420588068/first-listen-jason-isbell-something-more-than-free
― dow, Friday, July 10, 2015 4:38 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not to say this 'un doesn't *also* sound like it was written and recorded sober---it does, and it also sounds like that's what it's about: dealing with the unfiltered, or differently filtered---but Southeastern seemed like more of an adventure.
― dow, Friday, July 10, 2015 4:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkMaybe it's just subtle for me---diggin it tho!
― dow, Monday, 13 July 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link
"Children of Children" is fucking brutal -
I was riding on my mother's hip, she was shorter than the cornAll the years I took from her, just by being born.
Didn't mean to break the cycle[...]
You were riding on your mother's hip she was shorter than the cornAll the years you took from her, just by being born.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 18 July 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Is any of his solo stuff better than "outfit?"
― calstars, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
probably not, about half of Southeastern and the 400 Unit album are nearly as good though
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
his entire solo career is a colossal bore imo
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Right? I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.
― calstars, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
It's like he needed to prove himself, or he needed the competition, and then the fire went out.
― calstars, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Totally. I like all but one or two of the handful of songs he contributed to DBT (and really like a couple). Dude peaked early (much like his hero Ryan Adams imo)
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
His best stuff now is definitely in a different register from his DBT songs, but I still think "Cover Me Up," "Elephant," "Relatively Easy," "No Choice in the Matter" and a few others measure up just fine.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
yeah there's been no drop in quality imo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
Every song I hear of his is really good, and then I hear a second song and don't want to hear any more.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure he thinks eschewing rock 'n' roll adduces his maturity. I suppose artists earn the right not to give a damn about commercial considerations. A pity.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
if only he would come to ilm and read this thread, maybe then he'd do a better job of steering his career *eyeroll*
dude put out the best record he has ever been involved in three years ago, at age 34. that's an opinion. as far as commercial considerations go, he's doing the best he's ever done as we speak. that's a fact.
― alpine static, Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
I hate to be a music geek cliche but yes, the old stuff with the Truckers is best.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
tbf not a lot of people's solo stuff is better than "outfit"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
A mean industry person in Nashville once told me (before all the Americana awards and stuff, naturally) "he was better when he was fat and drunk." And while I definitely believe the "damaged artist" myth (and propagation thereof) is tired at best and irresponsible at worst, I can't help agreeing with that Nashville dickhead about the declining caliber of Isbell's work since becoming a, err, friend of Bill.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Also, the 400 Unit, while a fine band, are not DBT. Having them playing your songs clearly helps.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 3 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
This new record is fantastic. His most upbeat set of songs ever.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 16 June 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
Pretty sure "If We Were Vampires" is the best song he's ever written.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 23 June 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
That sucks. No 40 years together
― H.P, Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
I sobered upI swore off that stuffForever this time
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
(It's kind of interesting that if you listen to live recordings, that's an instant applause line - when one presumes that 73% of the audience is holding a Bud Lite at that precise moment. I cannot pretend to understand the world.)
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
I'm kind of surprised people are surprised by this. For several years it's seemed like it could boil over at any second (and probably did multiple times).
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 9 February 2024 05:25 (one month ago) link
yeah i’m bummed but not exactly surprised. the vibes have been strange for a while imo.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2024 05:29 (one month ago) link
He gives good interviews and it's fun to see him light up fools on twitter, but I've never gotten the impression he'd be a pleasant person to hang around with or—even worse—be married to.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 9 February 2024 05:37 (one month ago) link
i dunno that Shires is a walk in the park either tbh
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2024 05:45 (one month ago) link
He had abruptly stopped Tweeting in mid-December, but I thought he had maybe moved to another platform. . .
What struck me watching the documentary was that 'this is a songwriter who has a spouse/sometimes bandmate/MFA in Poetry involved at a very granular level in the songwriting process. Much respect for even trying to make that work, but that's going be very difficult to sustain'.
― Jeff Wright, Friday, 9 February 2024 06:13 (one month ago) link
Well, somebody on here pointed out his own lit(eature) studies, at Memphis U., I think--dunno how far he got toward a degree, but he said years ago that his tastes were way ahead of his abilities, or skills, so that kind of self-conscious striving seems to have affected his lyrics sometimes, like in a recent interview he quoted Shires,"I know how you feel about that, because I know you, but it doesn't come across," and he said he was indignant at first, but then he tried again, and wrote something more (intelligible or something)(think it was a song about or involving their daughter, growing up in this fucked world).
Sobriety as a major theme, yeah, reminds me of what I said upthread:
Oh yeah----my comments from last year's Nashville Scene ballot:Jason Isbell, Reunions:Under pressure of atmosphere, memories, incl. of present and future, spooky and urgent----music more varied after "Running With Our Eyes Closed," calmer but still insidious, words finding their way in---"St. Peter's Autograph,", hmmm--but I get some of 'em right away, esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? So far, Reunions seems like one of his most sustained achievements in quite a while:https://jasonisbell.bandcamp.com/album/reunions― dow, Saturday, October 23, 2021
Under pressure of atmosphere, memories, incl. of present and future, spooky and urgent----music more varied after "Running With Our Eyes Closed," calmer but still insidious, words finding their way in---"St. Peter's Autograph,", hmmm--but I get some of 'em right away, esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? So far, Reunions seems like one of his most sustained achievements in quite a while:
https://jasonisbell.bandcamp.com/album/reunions
― dow, Saturday, October 23, 2021
re what I said a few days ago about "It gets easier, but never easy," and slipperiness of sober living, just now recalled that this has been a theme emerging in various ways ever since he cleaned up, as I commented on in a paste way upthread:From Rolling Country, my initial impressions:Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free: doesn't travel with the more sustained undertone of excitement found in Southeastern---recorded sober, apparently!---but "Are you takin' the grown-up dose?" is still the question, or one of 'em, and it's often remarkable what can sprout from dry, quiet starting over, especially when the past gets out of bed and comes cruising through one's present-day/night of carefully worked out details, brushing them just a hair or three from conventional alignment. Or not, in which case it's conspicuous by etc., but always the singer's cue."Children of Children" and "24 Frames" will be the relatively big (npr) radio cuts, if any are, but most tunes as well as words tend to take fetching turns.http://www.npr.org/2015/07/08/420588068/first-listen-jason-isbell-something-more-than-free― dow, Friday, July 10, 2015 4:38 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkNot to say this 'un doesn't *also* sound like it was written and recorded sober---it does, and it also sounds like that's what it's about: dealing with the unfiltered, or differently filtered---but Southeastern seemed like more of an adventure.― dow, Friday, July 10, 2015 4:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkMaybe it's just subtle for me---diggin it tho!― dow, Monday, July 13, 2015 5:51 PM (six years ago)
― dow, Friday, July 10, 2015 4:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maybe it's just subtle for me---diggin it tho!
― dow, Monday, July 13, 2015 5:51 PM (six years ago)
― dow, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:53 (one month ago) link
I wish we'd focus on Amanda Shires too.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:54 (one month ago) link
Art about drugs (including alcohol) is just boring.
― calstars, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link
With him, it's the aftermath, although life can be seen and heard as aftermath anyway (relatable).xpost Increasingly, she's got the music and the words, but bum sung notes can suddenly drive me up the wall, and the weakness of even correctly sung solo passages have me listening around the voice sometimes---she can be awesome double-tracked though, fitting right in to the rest of her production---if only she were as tough on herself as she reportedly was on him, artistically (meaning her own albums; I haven't heard the one w Bobbie Nelson yet)(Shires did a great repartee duet w Prine, btw).
― dow, Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:08 (one month ago) link
Oh, I didn't refer to their output: I referred to this unceasing social media emphasis on Isbell as if the impact of the divorce affected him more because of alcoholism, etc. It's a couple.
If we're talking about talent and compelling musical figures I considers Shires and her last album more compelling than many of Isbell's often good, rarely excellent efforts.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:14 (one month ago) link
― dow, Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:21 (one month ago) link
yep
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:23 (one month ago) link
Also more albums etc. and today something on Google Entertainment News playing "Wanted Dead Or Alive" with ten-gallon hat and double-neck geetar---always something else showing up like that.
― dow, Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:24 (one month ago) link
― calstars, Friday, February 9, 2024 7:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
second only to art about the aftermath of those things, namely rehab and divorce albums. I guess we can look forward to the latter now
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 February 2024 02:06 (one month ago) link
Seeing him this weekend, but getting worried for the dude's health. The last several months: got new teeth, lost his longtime bassist, divorcing, apparently an old knee injury is getting drained before each show, and even the most hardcore of his fans are as delicately as possible noting his voice has been in rough shape lately, he's singing in lower keys, he's visibly frustrated at not being able to hit notes. I'm sure he'll get better, but it's a lot to deal with at once. It's got to be tough to be a real road warrior and then hit some roadblocks.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 February 2024 17:47 (one month ago) link
jeebus is this guy great tonight
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 March 2024 04:19 (three weeks ago) link
.@JasonIsbell sings real Fox News Biden "scandal" headlines pic.twitter.com/FY5eHIBql2— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 1, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 March 2024 22:20 (three weeks ago) link
Seeing him again last week reminded me that I've honestly never listened to too much of his recorded music, but he's had a heck of a recent run, and of course from the Truckers on he's proved himself capable of writing all-timers. I went back to read some Christgau reviews out of curiosity, and he really seems to get him, and also able to put his finger on what sets Isbell apart. He's political, but not necessarily angry. He's an intellectual, but not particularly pretentious. He's got a lot of country in him, but he's not really a country singer, and while he is a singer-songwriter for sure there are enough elements of other stuff that said him apart from that crew as well. Basically he is a musical omnivore and consummate craftsman with incredibly high standards. Don't know where he would have fit in in the '60s, '70s or '80s. John Prine? Steve Earle? Kris Kristofferson?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:06 (three weeks ago) link
So his voice sounded ok health-wise at the show you saw ?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:47 (three weeks ago) link
he's had a heck of a recent run
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Has he? I mean obv he gets bigger and bigger and I'm glad to see him thriving but Southeastern gets further and further in the rearview. he's delivered some indisputable bangers since but albumwise...
More Than Free is, in the Tom Petty tradition, half a great record.The Nashville Sound has That One Song.
I guess people are nuts for 'em but I can't find a thing on Reunions or Weathervanes I'd put on a "why do people even care about this guy" playlist.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:46 (three weeks ago) link
I actually like the last two a lot, though I admit I was thinking of Petty when I recently played ... Free.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:49 (three weeks ago) link
oh, and yeah, his voice sounded good, though eagle eyes noted he may have lowered the keys of a couple of songs.but to back up again, unlike Petty, there's very little on his records that sounds like filler, imo, and even the lesser songs sound really well realized, and perhaps only sound lesser because there are always two or three absolutely great songs that make most songs sound lesser. but those lesser songs, I still appreciate the craft, the lyrics, the playing, how they are recorded.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:53 (three weeks ago) link
I think I was the sole vote for Weathervanes on the EOY poll.
I thought it was the best one for years - loved King of Oklahoma and White Beretta.
― aphoristical, Thursday, 7 March 2024 03:55 (three weeks ago) link
my top three last year were basically a tie between Weathervanes and the Wednesday and 10,000 gecs records. to me it was his best since Southeastern or More Than Free. not a single dud and I even liked the jams at the end.
I got my dad way into him really early and my mom fairly recently so it's a family affair now, the three of us have seen him together twice (just my dad and I have seen him probably 4-5 additional times). though I think my parents are pretty busted up about his divorce, and my mom was even tsk-tsking him for wearing a $2,400 Louis shirt on The Daily Show the other night lol
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 7 March 2024 13:08 (three weeks ago) link
lol Isbell has always admitted a taste for the finer things. funny, I know a couple of families who are all fans, too
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2024 14:17 (three weeks ago) link
Southeastern AMore Than Free C+Nashville Sound A-Reunions CWeathervanes B
I don't love 'em all but I think it's hard to deny he's had a heck of a run.
― alpine static, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:06 (three weeks ago) link
Southeastern would be A+ if he'd left "Super 8" off!
― alpine static, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:08 (three weeks ago) link
Ha, I like that song, very Truckers. If Petty is the standard, that's sort of the general spread pattern I'd give to his albums as well. A couple of clear winners, mostly at least average, some undeniable all-timers raising most of them, to degrees.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:18 (three weeks ago) link
I dug the Georgia Bluecovers album.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:22 (three weeks ago) link
xpost i like the song just fine, but it doesn't fit on the album. totally messes with the flow/vibe.
― alpine static, Thursday, 7 March 2024 19:01 (three weeks ago) link
pretty wide discrepancies even within such a fairly uniform catalogue. i'd say:
Southeastern B+More Than Free A-Nashville Sound C+Reunions BWeathervanes A-
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:18 (three weeks ago) link