A little more than a year after the release of the the Highwomen‘s self-titled debutalbum, a new song has emerged from the star-studded sessions with producer Dave Cobb. “Hold On,” the latest from the Nashville-by-way-of-England singer-songwriter Yola, is an uplifting soul song based on conversations the “Faraway Look” singer had …
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It was hard not to think of Hank Williams when Justin Townes Earle —who died this week at 38 — made his network-television debut on the Late Show With David Letterman in 2011. Dressed in a crisp brown suit and bowtie, and bending his well-over-six-foot frame into the microphone, the …
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“It’s all based on a true story,” says Jason Isbell, “and it’s all fiction.” The roots-drenched singer-songwriter’s excellent new album, Reunions, is filled with tales of lost friends and other melancholy memories, but don’t let his gift for novelistic detail fool you: The people he’s mourning didn’t necessarily exist, just …
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Jason Isbell has spent a good deal of 2019 focusing less on his Grammy-winning songwriting and more on the instrument that enabled his rise from Muscle Shoals to Music City —his guitar. Isbell, whose six-string skills helped define a trio of Drive-By Truckers albums before he found solo success, has …
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Jason Isbell initially reached a broader audience as a third guitarist and sometimes songwriter in the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers, adding a fresh perspective and voice to their albums Decoration Day and The Dirty South. Those rock credentials were on full display for the second night of Isbell’s 2018 …
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David Crosby made a surprise appearanceduring Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s headlining set at the Newport Folk Festival Friday to perform a pair of Crosby, Stills & Nash classics. Crosby, who was not on the lineup for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, joined Isbell for “Wooden Ships” and the …
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