Any love for Jason Isbell around here?

[border_reiver]

I've come to accept than one day there won't be any more MK albums nor concerts. In search of a "new" MK to desperately cling on to - once MK is at the retirement home - I've come to love the music of Jason Isbell's.

Not only that but his shows are awesome. His music and lyrics are a powerful punch to the stomach. Plus he's a great guitarist and slide guitarist too, who should be getting more credit for that.

So I'm just wondering if I'm the only one around here to have discovered Isbell's music or are there more fans of his lurking around here?

[dustyvalentino]

He's brilliant. Saw him and his wife live a couple of years ago, just wonderful.

[Jules]

Jason Isbell: "Mark Knopfler is like an astronaut"

https://guitar.com/features/interviews/jason-isbell-reunions-grammys-cool-guitars/

“Those Dire Straits songs were huge on the radio when I was a kid in the 80s,” he recalls. “That was something that really appealed to me because it was mainstream. How is this guy playing guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, and it’s on MTV?! How is that possible? It doesn’t seem like that could ever happen. So I was really drawn to that, from my earliest days as a guitar player, because it was something that was rooted in a traditional type of playing, but was finding real mainstream success. I don’t think anybody else pulled off anything even close to that – there were a lot of great guitar players in those days, but they didn’t sound like Chet Atkins!

“To play that way you have to have nerves of steel. any decent guitar player can play through a really loud Marshall with a Les Paul and make something cool. But to play a Strat through a Vibrolux, clean, in the out of phase position with your fingers at the fuckin’ US Festival or something… is insane – that’s like astronaut-level! There is nowhere to hide, it’s amazing – you’ve got to be very confident in where you’re about to put your hands.”

[quizzaciously]

Mark himself is a fan, he played Jason's song on his radio programme and here's what he said about him:
"
Now, this next artist has an album with something of an ironic title, I suspect: “The Nashville Sound”. I think the tongue is firmly in cheek! The artist is Jason Isbell and from 2017, and the album itself... “The Nashville Sound”? Hmm... The song − “Last Of My Kind”. That was Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit with the “Last Of My Kind” and of course Jason has spent plenty of time learning his trade. He used to be in the Drive-By Truckers, whom a lot of you would have heard of. And he spent plenty of time out there on the road and playing gigs.

MK

[Jules]

Mark himself is a fan, he played Jason's song on his radio programme and here's what he said about him:
"
Now, this next artist has an album with something of an ironic title, I suspect: “The Nashville Sound”. I think the tongue is firmly in cheek! The artist is Jason Isbell and from 2017, and the album itself... “The Nashville Sound”? Hmm... The song − “Last Of My Kind”. That was Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit with the “Last Of My Kind” and of course Jason has spent plenty of time learning his trade. He used to be in the Drive-By Truckers, whom a lot of you would have heard of. And he spent plenty of time out there on the road and playing gigs.

MK

Yes, "The Nashville Sound" is part of the lyrics of his song "White man's world":



I'm a white man living in a white man's world
Under our roof is a baby girl
I thought this world could be hers one day
But her momma knew better

I'm a white man living in a white man's town
Want to take a shot of cocaine and burn it down
Momma wants to change that Nashville sound
But they're never gonna let her

There's no such thing as someone else's war
Your creature comforts aren't the only things worth fighting for
If you're still breathing, it's not too late
We're all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate

I'm a white man living on a white man's street
I've got the bones of the red man under my feet
The highway runs through their burial grounds
Past the oceans of cotton

I'm a white man looking in a black man's eyes
Wishing I'd never been one of the guys
Who pretended not to hear another white man's joke
Oh, the times ain't forgotten

There's no such thing as someone else's war
Your creature comforts aren't the only things worth fighting for
You're still breathing, it's not too late
We're all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate

I'm a white man living in a white man's nation
I think the man upstairs must'a took a vacation
I still have faith, but I don't know why
Maybe it's the fire in my little girl's eyes
Maybe it's the fire in my little girl's eyes

[Jules]

Today Google News send me a mail with another interview of Jason Isbell talking about Mark Knopfler, and their meeting in Nashville, regarding his last record "Reunions":

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jason-isbell-as-i-get-older-i-tend-to-play-fewer-notes-to-try-and-make-my-point

"Lately, Isbell has been on a Dire Straits jag, and he channels his inner Mark Knopfler on the sinuous, super-vibey track Overseas.

“I got to meet Mark right before we started recording,” he says. “I’m a big fan, and I was thrilled when he told me he liked my music. So I think his guitar ethos was in my head when we cut that song. That’s all live tape echo on my solo. I’m pretty proud of that.”"

[hunter]

One of our time's great artists. Not just a good musician and performer, but top-notch songwriter too.

[dustyvalentino]

It was called the Nashville Sound partly because it was recorded at the historic RCA B studio in Nashville, where Chet was in charge...


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[dustyvalentino]

Jason was interviewed by one of my favourite artists recently, Cory Branan.

He asked for questions and I got Knopfler in Around 37:50





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[Jules]

Great to know that Jason was recording "Reunions" when he went to the Mk concert at the Ryman, and funny that he feared he would be not nice and discovered he likes his music, I bet he was on cloud number nine that night!

[border_reiver]

Thank you all for the findings! 

[Jules]

I bet most of you already know, but Jason played a cover of "Brothers in arms" in one of his concerts at the Ryman

[border_reiver]

I do know 

[hunter]

I bet most of you already know, but Jason played a cover of "Brothers in arms" in one of his concerts at the Ryman

I said this last time it was posted, but I think this version is absolute crap. Isbell is such a good singer and guitar player, but yet he turns it into some sort of 80s Power Ballad with high-gain distortion. Plus it sounds like the song wasn't really well rehearsed.

[border_reiver]

Probably just pure joy of buying a $650k burst and meeting MK for the first time. Who could blame the guy?