April 26, 20232 yr 22 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said: Streetlights is in his top 5. I didn’t love it when it came out, but it grew on me over time It's top 5 for me. Goddamn Lonely Love Outfit Stockholm Alabama Pines Streetlights Top 5 is hard.
April 26, 20232 yr 43 minutes ago, Post Oak said: It's top 5 for me. Goddamn Lonely Love Outfit Stockholm Alabama Pines Streetlights Top 5 is hard. I’ll play: Outfit Elephant Streetlights Goddamn Lonely Love The Day John Henry Died
April 26, 20232 yr Author My top 5: Speed Trap Town Elephant Streetlights Something to Love Goddamn Lonely Love
April 26, 20232 yr I will add that I almost never listen to Elephant, but that’s kinda why it makes the cut
April 26, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said: Another one from Weathervanes: Goddamn that’s good. Seeing him in a couple weeks in Dallas.
April 26, 20232 yr Goddamn Lonely Love Outfit Speed Trap Town Vampires Danko Manuel I dunno, that doesn't seem right. You could swap out Vampires with Cover Me Up or Elephant. So many songs like Razor Town, John Henry, Never Gonna Change... honestly there are songs like Cigarettes and Wine that I don't think are that great but I love singing and so have a lot of listens. Really I think I have a top two and then a huge rotating list of tier 1 songs.
April 26, 20232 yr Weird how you guys all love the song Isbell wrote about me three quarters day drunk texting my ex from a bar in Pensacola.
April 27, 20232 yr Songs she sang in the shower is def in my top 5. Not sure why but man I dig that tune.
April 27, 20232 yr Relatively Easy is another one that I didn’t care for at first, but really grew on me over time. The lyrics especially hit me.
April 27, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, tbone_ said: Songs she sang in the shower is def in my top 5. Not sure why but man I dig that tune. Like so many of his lines ‘experience robs me of hope’ is rock solid
April 27, 20232 yr Like so many of his lines ‘experience robs me of hope’ is rock solid Yes. That album is full of those. It really is a masterpiece.
April 27, 20232 yr I'm coming up on our 50th Anniversary and If We Were Vampires hits me like a hammer. Edited April 27, 20232 yr by Shoxthemonkey our, not my
April 27, 20232 yr I'm about to stop listening to Isbell. He's a great musician, but I'm tired of hearing one his songs and then going and hugging my wife for 10 minutes as I think about one of us dying for the next two hours.
April 27, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Shoxthemonkey said: I'm coming up on our 50th Anniversary and If We Were Vampires hits me like a hammer. my wife's aunt passed away unexpectedly in early march. the night she passed my wife rushed to the hospital and i spent the evening listening to that song over and over and snuggling with our 2 year old daughter. it hit hard.
April 27, 20232 yr They do a thing at weddings where they usher everyone out and you do a dance with your wife in the empty room and then you go to the car. We couldn’t land on a song and then my wife heard Vampires in my car and said “why not this” and yeah… wtf why didn’t I think of this. Fun song to learn. Standard tuning down a full step I think, something like Em C D and then B or able gets in there, and obviously you’re doing that fingerpicking note walking thing.
April 27, 20232 yr I really wish he’d quit showing off with his tunings. I can never figure that shit out.
April 27, 20232 yr Meaning you just keep different guitars laying around with different tunings?Or are you saying if I went out and bought more awesome guitars I’d miraculously become competent with alternate tunings? Because if that’s the case I’d be willing to try.
April 27, 20232 yr Just that it's a lot easier to write in alternate tunings if you don't have re-tune your one good guitar all the time.
April 27, 20232 yr On 4/26/2023 at 10:22 AM, Seasick Sailor said: Another one from Weathervanes: Love that and it's burned in my head since I heard it yesterday. And also the amount of times I heard not to wash the cast iron skillet and other learned nonsense as a youth, just adds much to it. Those lines and scenarios are taken directly from the town I grew up in, the towns a lot of people grew up in. Sweet, and fucked up.
April 27, 20232 yr I haven’t gone out and learned every Isbell song but I feel like it’s mostly standard or DADGBE/DADGBD. And it is hella worth becoming competent in drop d. You can learn Cover Me Up, Speed Trap Town, and Relatively Easy (also love that song, feels very sobriety centric to me but applicable across different challenges to serenity) in one swoop.
April 27, 20232 yr Put me down for: Relatively Easy Last of My Kind Dress Blues Speed Trap Town Only Children It’s probably these right now with God Damned Lonely Love, Streetlights, and Never Gonna Change at various points jockeying for position. He’s got a lot of really good stuff, but at this point, so much of it feels interchangeable.
April 27, 20232 yr Also love Stockholm - the vocal harmonies, and it’s a great example of how Isbell writes songs that are both straightforward and a little complex in their arrangement.
April 27, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said: Put me down for: Relatively Easy Last of My Kind Dress Blues Speed Trap Town Only Children It’s probably these right now with God Damned Lonely Love, Streetlights, and Never Gonna Change at various points jockeying for position. He’s got a lot of really good stuff, but at this point, so much of it feels interchangeable. I looked at twitter this morning and one of the first posts that popped up was Zach Bryan quoting lyrics from Dress Blues. I guess just because.
April 27, 20232 yr I'm not sure I could ever leave "Elephant" out of my top 5. I came to Isbell later than most, but that was the song that sucked the wind right out of me.
April 27, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, SameSame said: Love that and it's burned in my head since I heard it yesterday. And also the amount of times I heard not to wash the cast iron skillet and other learned nonsense as a youth, just adds much to it. Those lines and scenarios are taken directly from the town I grew up in, the towns a lot of people grew up in. Sweet, and fucked up. You wash your cast iron skillet? I rinse mine, but soap does not touch it
April 27, 20232 yr It’s actually fine to wash cast iron with soap, you just need to dry it. The idea that soap will remove the seasoning comes from back in the day when it contained lye. I don’t always wash my raw cast iron, but sometimes I do.
April 27, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said: You wash your cast iron skillet? I rinse mine, but soap does not touch it We were told never to touch it, don't wash it you ruin the oil or grease. You can wash it, don't put it in a dishwasher
April 28, 20232 yr On the Isbell list there would be so many trading places in my top 5. I was a passing fan of Drive By Truckers and early Isbell, then for whatever reason when Southeastern came out the first song I heard was Flying Over Water and it instantly clicked. Right place right time and it hit me square. Because of that, Flying over water will always be at the top for me.
April 28, 20232 yr I love Flying Over Water. Killer melody, incredible lyrics, and soaring guitars. Total package.
April 28, 20232 yr I had The Dirty South but didn't even know about Jason Isbell (i bought that album early freshman year, and the first time I encountered Wikipedia was at the end of the first semester - different fucking world when it came to learning general info about bands). "Cover Me Up" was a song that I think YouTube pushed me towards after I started listening to Sturgill, who showed up on the Maron podcast and whose name i recognized from an earlier iteration of this thread. And I wound up driving to Waterloo and buying both Southeastern and Nashville Sound, and I often get certain songs from those two albums fucked up - I would've said that Flying Over Water was on Nashville Sound. This is such a great verse In the heat I saw you rising from the dirt Drunk, in tears and tugging at your skirt If only you could tell me then what part of you got hurt In the heat I saw you rising from the dirt It's not even wordplay or anything, it's the imagery but also just something about the way the syllables are ordered. "if only you could tell me then what part of you got hurt" goddamn.
April 28, 20232 yr On 4/26/2023 at 10:22 AM, Seasick Sailor said: Another one from Weathervanes: Damn...
April 28, 20232 yr There's a few too many years on this hotel She used to be a beauty you can tell The lights down in the lobby they don't shine They just flicker while the elevator whines And the couple in the corner of the bar Have traveled light and clearly traveled far She's got nothing left to learn about his heart They're sitting there a thousand miles apart
April 29, 20232 yr This is going to be so incredible. The singles released so far are excellent Tweedy produced Rodney Crowell album recorded at Wilco’s studio in Chicago https://www.rodneycrowell.com/the-chicago-sessions Edited April 29, 20232 yr by UTexasFight
April 29, 20232 yr I’ve probably plugged it a few times on this thread already but Rodney Crowell’s memoir Chinaberry Sidewalk is so very good. Any of you old farts that grew up in Houston, I bet it’d smack you in the face with nostalgia as well.
April 29, 20232 yr Rodney Crowell is one of those guys that I swear I shouldn't really like, and then I hear another song and think "damn, The Houston Kid is really, really good".
April 29, 20232 yr There's a few too many years on this hotel She used to be a beauty you can tell The lights down in the lobby they don't shine They just flicker while the elevator whines And the couple in the corner of the bar Have traveled light and clearly traveled far She's got nothing left to learn about his heart They're sitting there a thousand miles apartI had to Google those lyrics to figure out what song it was from.That’s a brilliant verse, but I find that song’s melody and arrangement so bland that I’ve probably never listened to the whole thing.
April 30, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, jimmyjazz said: Rodney Crowell is one of those guys that I swear I shouldn't really like, and then I hear another song and think "damn, The Houston Kid is really, really good". These are the words that were escaping me. perfectly said
May 1, 20232 yr Just realized Amazon PrimeIs broadcasting Stagecoach live. Tyler Childers is on now. Chris Stapleton coming up later.
May 1, 20232 yr Brooks and Dunn on now. Holy shit they can’t sing anymore. Even the great Ronnie Dunn. Bummer.
May 1, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, bluto said: Why is there a “shouldn’t like Rodney” sentiment? No shit. The guy wrote “Ain’t Living Long Like This”.
May 1, 20232 yr 14 hours ago, bluto said: Why is there a “shouldn’t like Rodney” sentiment? There is one?
May 3, 20232 yr Author On 5/1/2023 at 5:40 AM, Al_4_ISU said: No shit. The guy wrote “Ain’t Living Long Like This”. And Song for the Life
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