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Jason Isbell Thursday?
Posted on 4/26/22 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 4/26/22 at 8:06 pm
Jackson. Last place I want to drive when I leave home…hopefully that downtown location is walkable.
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Posted on 4/26/22 at 9:41 pm to Gaston
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Jason Isbell
You've come to the wrong place.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 11:03 am to Gaston
Please just remember to step back and make room for minority and female voices when you're in attendance Gaston
Posted on 4/27/22 at 11:33 am to Demshoes
I don't get the level of hate he gets. Hes vocal about it, but we wouldn't like the politics of a lot of musicians if they chose to speak out too. He has some good tunes regardless.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 11:57 am to TrussvilleTide
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I don't get the level of hate he gets. Hes vocal about it, but we wouldn't like the politics of a lot of musicians if they chose to speak out too. He has some good tunes regardless.
I think it comes with the territory of building your career on being southern and giving voice to southerners and then turning around and lecturing those people about how backwards and misguided they are. You come to prominence touring bars in places like Auburn and Tuscaloosa and then get loud on ideas very unpopular with 75% of that contingent, and it's a pretty predictable disconnect.
It doesn't help that a lot of us feel his art has declined to cheesy levels as he's become more outspoken.
But yeah, if he was an alt folk guy from NH or Michigan it'd be different. Then again, he wouldn't have the entrenched interest down here in that case, either.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 12:07 pm to TrussvilleTide
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I don't get the level of hate he gets.
I don't see that hate for him outside of this board. I saw him at the Ryman, and it was probably the best live show I've ever seen.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 12:53 pm to FinleyStreet
You should prolly go to more shows
Posted on 4/27/22 at 12:57 pm to TrussvilleTide
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I don't get the level of hate he gets
Grade A level douche. He and his wife like to sing heartfelt songs about killing babies and he’s an all-around insufferable SJW.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 1:11 pm to FinleyStreet
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Jason Isbell
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probably the best live show I've ever seen.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 2:36 pm to Clint Torres
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You should prolly go to more shows
I'll be sure to check out the musical stylings of Ted Nugent and Kid Rock to align myself more with the music board.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 3:31 pm to FinleyStreet
I’m pretty excited about the show.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 3:58 pm to Pettifogger
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I think it comes with the territory of building your career on being southern and giving voice to southerners and then turning around and lecturing those people about how backwards and misguided they are. You come to prominence touring bars in places like Auburn and Tuscaloosa and then get loud on ideas very unpopular with 75% of that contingent, and it's a pretty predictable disconnect.
He’s never really hidden his politics even during his time with Drive By Truckers. They’ve both gotten more outspoken in recent years, but it really shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone paying attention. A lot of his songs still have that southern storytelling to them. Dreamsicle off his latest album comes to mind. He’s also written a bunch of songs about him getting sober, but his detractors don’t really bitch about that.
Anyway, I can’t stand going to his show because his hardcore fans are insufferable.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 4:18 pm to The Spleen
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He’s never really hidden his politics even during his time with Drive By Truckers.
clearly his songwriting content was quite different in DBT and in his band records up until 2017 when he released white mans world. he's been quite vocal re politics on twitter since before the 2016 election but white mans world pitted him against half of his fans.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 4:26 pm to monsterballads
I’m not talking entirely about his songs. I went to a LOT of Truckers shows in the early and mid 00’s. Rants against W Bush we’re pretty common, mostly from Patterson or Cooley.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 5:11 pm to Gaston
I put this guys ACL show on when I was on a plane last week because someone was just talking about a fender custom shop guitar of his that I liked the setup on. Figured I’d give him a try.
Took a while to put my headphones in, Show looked good so I started back a few songs. One song was about how bad blacks have it and even blamed God for it, whites should feel bad. Next song was about growing up simple in the country and the world just doesn’t get a poor old country boy.
I concluded this dude is a sellout POS and turned it off.
Took a while to put my headphones in, Show looked good so I started back a few songs. One song was about how bad blacks have it and even blamed God for it, whites should feel bad. Next song was about growing up simple in the country and the world just doesn’t get a poor old country boy.
I concluded this dude is a sellout POS and turned it off.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 5:34 pm to OceanMan
Yea, I’m a DBT fan…love all his old songs.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 6:21 pm to OceanMan
Kinda sounds like you think all white country boys are racist and can’t have empathy for blacks. Weird position to take.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 6:55 pm to The Spleen
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I’m not talking entirely about his songs. I went to a LOT of Truckers shows in the early and mid 00’s. Rants against W Bush we’re pretty common, mostly from Patterson or Cooley.
Jason has always been far left as well as Patterson and Cooley. That’s no secret. Jason started being quite vocal about politics maybe 7 years ago online as he became more and more popular. His Twitter used to be one of the most entertaining and funny accounts to follow. I’ve hung out with him a few times from 2007 to 2012 and saw many shows he played in Baton Rouge and Nola. He used to be more easy going and approachable. He’s achieved quite a bit of success and fame now and is definitely in the bubble that entertainers get into. He’s come a long way from playing solo acoustic to 30 people at the circle bar in Nola but I miss fat Jason who didn’t make everything political and wrote well crafted songs. I’m not holding out hope that his new album will be anything great. Reunions has 3 very good songs on it but the rest is pretty blah.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 6:58 pm to The Spleen
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He’s never really hidden his politics even during his time with Drive By Truckers. They’ve both gotten more outspoken in recent years, but it really shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone paying attention. A lot of his songs still have that southern storytelling to them. Dreamsicle off his latest album comes to mind. He’s also written a bunch of songs about him getting sober, but his detractors don’t really bitch about that.
I knew DBT were dems and Jason too, but more in the way that a lot of Texas country guys are, etc. And that was always more of a union Democrat anti-corporatist, anti-war type thing, not a "everything is white supremacy and misogyny thing."
Songs about guys coming back from Iraq broken and rich people shutting down the mill are tolerable even for hardcore Rs, because we know there's some truth (if overblown/misdirected) and because it makes for good country and folk music.
Woke politics do not have either going for them, and as Jason gravitated there, I think that's where it became untenable IMO.
Posted on 4/27/22 at 7:00 pm to Pettifogger
Well said
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