Jason Isbell

Jason Isbell and 400 Unit to release new covers album – Listen

September 15, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

It was back in November last year when the world was an even more uncertain place that it is now that, Jason Isbell posted the following tweet: If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity […]

Interview: Stephen Deusner on why he wrote the first Drive-By Truckers biography

September 13, 2021 Martin Johnson 2

An exploration of the context behind Patterson Hood’s the duality of the southern thing is an interesting subtext. The Drive-By Truckers have been a cult band in the UK since the mid-2000s and they have seen […]

Jason Isbell interviews Dr Fauci about Covid vaccines – Watch

September 7, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

Jason Isbell has been vocal in recent weeks about his support for Covid vaccines and continued social distancing in concerts and recently interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of […]

Watch Jason Isbell cover the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”

August 31, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

Our favourite Alabama country-rocker Jason Isbell (as he describes himself on Twitter: “friend to children, the vaccinated, and those with certain underlying medical conditions”) performed a cover of The Rolling Stones’ 1969 classic ‘Gimme Shelter’ over […]

Country music’s political divide rears its head again over crowd safety

August 17, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

“I don’t know any artists in the Americana world who are openly anti-vax.” The Guardian has published a really interesting piece today entitled “We aren’t all dumb hillbillies” about the backlash which Jason Isbell has experienced […]