Drive-By Truckers/Jason Isbell Appreciation Thread

Wife got us tickets to see him in Charlotte in March. I'm really psyched. I am late as hell to the Isbell party, but better late than never. Just started listening to him after I heard him interviewed on NPR a couple of months ago. My god can that man write a song. Just spectacular.

 

Where's he playing?

 

Ovens. Haven't been there since I saw David Copperfield there in like 1989.

 

Acoustically, that will be awesome but it's unfortunate that there's nothing cool within walking distance to do beforehand/afterward.

 

I am sure the Independence Blvd IHOP will be wild for post show debauchery

 

Anyone going to the City Winery show tonight in Nashville?

 

Couldn't find a ticket anywhere

 

GQ Magazine ‏@GQMagazine 31m31 minutes ago
These three musicians are changing the face of country music http://gq.mn/nrBovLM ...by @willwelch

 

Brb going to the bathroom

 

From Isbell's interview article linked from that one. On making bad music.

"Some things you have to refuse not because of other people's image of you, but because it will gradually erode you..."

 

So Sturgill has a completed album he's just sitting on. Wow that's awesome.

 

This whole thing just made me smile. Maybe real country music can finally make the comeback.

 

yeah he went to the studio last February

 

Jason's been going to the gym

 

Jason is doing a show in Tallahassee. fuck yeah

 

Not sure where else to post this, but Dawes is playing Tuckfest. Free concert at the US National Whitewater Center here in Charlotte NC. Jason, Trombone Shorty, and JJ Grey & Mofro played it last year. Waiting for the rest of the lineup, but if you haven't been to the USNWC before it'd be a good time to come check it out.

 

When is it?

 

USNWC is fucking awesome. Love their setup for concerts

 

April 22-24
http://tuckfest.org

 

It's an amazing place to have 15 minutes away. When it doesn't get dark at 5PM I go up there like 4 times a week. Only $200 for a season pass.

 

Second this. Phenomenal place

 

Hood got $800k for his athens house that his wife bought for $78k. The house is worth under $200k.

 

You could say that whoever bought that house got hood-winked!

 

Isbell made second line of bonaroo. We did it.

 

Chris Stapleton and...Hank Williams Jr. going out together for a short summer tour.

August 5 — Tampa, FL @ MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater
August 6 — West Palm Beach, FL @ Coral Sky Amphitheater
August 12 — Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 13 — Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater
August 19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
August 20 — Clarkston, Mich @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
August 26 — Noblesville, Ind. @ Klipsch Music Center
August 27 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...r-to-share-summer-tour-20160121#ixzz3xu1WtDoF
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DBT, Shovels & Rope and Susto among others playing St. Patty's Day in Columbia, SC.

 

Listen to atlas road crew? I like them a lot

 

Yeah, they're very good. Actually know their Piano player, was at Hammond same time I was in HS.

 

Yeah I'm friends with those guys. Three of the members were in a different band before they swapped the other two members, used to practice in my house. Stopped practicing in my living room and got the storage unit on atlas road and then changed the name. Good dudes, awesome shows

 

Hell yeah, that's awesome.

 

They play right before DBT on the main stage for St. Pats. I might go to savannah but I really like the lineup for columbia

 

Wynonna Judd feat. Jason Isbell is an interesting combo.

 

I'll be in Columbia for that. Also, heading to Athens Valentine's weekend for DBTs. And then Isbell in Charlotte in March #blessed

 

I've got tickets for Thursday and Friday DBT in Athens. Still trying to scrounge up a Saturday ticket somehow.

 

Am i missing something here? Is he just the background singer? Odd...

 

We got Sat. tickets. Got a text that read "DBTs Saturday the 13th in Athens, you in?" So here we are, ha

 

Yep, believe so.

Hell yeah, can't beat that.

 

FYI, unfortunately Dawes got announced for Sunday night. I believe St. Paul & The Broken Bones is Friday but they took off the Friday and Saturday lineups for some reason.

 

Dawes playing 4/8 in Tallahassee the night before Isbell. Gonna be an awesome 2 days

 

bought ticket for dbt at the 40 watt

 

Just got 2nd row tickets for Dawes

 

I'm going to the show the next saturday in Houston

El Tiempo, Isbell and Shovels and Rope

 

OH indeed

 

Some DBT mentions in this write up:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-guitarists-cozy-mexican-fest-20160129?page=6

 

DBT already recorded a new album? Is this old news?

http://flagpole.com/music/music-fea...ey-on-the-drive-by-truckers-legacy-and-future

Rather than the live record putting pressure on the band to deliver another knockout studio release, Cooley says it’s a relief simply to celebrate a milestone. “It serves as closure on however many eras the live record represents. I was already in pursuit of songs that are going to wind up on the next album,” he says.

In fact, following a run of shows last fall, the band booked time in a Nashville studio with Barbe to spontaneously capture their progress on a batch of new material. “Initially, we weren’t going to lay down the whole album. I wanted to record what we had and go somewhere else,” says Cooley. “We had three days, and we recorded nine songs. So I said, ‘I think we have an album here.’”

Although Cooley says the album will likely be mixed at Chase Park Transduction with Barbe at the helm, the forthcoming release will be the band’s first not recorded in Athens since Southern Rock Opera.

 

Also in that story, Cooley is working on a solo record.