Jason Isbell
Palomino Festival, Saturday July 9th 2022
covering country music’s diversity
Bonnaroo Is Back In September. Are We Ready For A Comeback Of This Size?
looks surreal after a year of isolation
Tech Company Topeka Offers A Front-Row Experience Unlike Any Other
’It’s intimate, it’s engaging, it’s seamless’
Alternative rocknyc For Saturday, June 6th, 2020: Governors Ball This Afternoon, Jason Isbell This evening
I didn’t realize the rest of the album would be so iffy.
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, Live at Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville, Friday, May 15th 2020, Reviewed
the George Harrison of Americana
L.A. Burning, West Coast Concert Picks, January 6th To 12th 2020
Kate Clover starts her residency at the Bootleg
L. A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, MAY 20TH TO 26TH
Idles are at the Fonda Theatre on Wednesday
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, APRIL 23rd TO 27th
Cigarettes After Sex are at the Ace Hotel on Friday, at the Fonda Theatre on Saturday
2017 rock nyc Concerts In Order Of Preference Through June 30th
Southern gentleman rock
Best Of 2017: Singles Through June
tenderness
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit At The Beacon Theatre, Friday, June 23rd, 2017, Reviewed
A new sort of Southern gentleman
Jason Isbell And Josh Ritter, Wednesday, October 5th, 2016, At Hershey Theatre in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Reviewed
Having a great time, rising up, raising our voices, and rocking out
Luke Bryan Versus Jason Isbell: The Country Wars
One is a serious man disguised as a Frat Boy and the other is a serious man disguised as a workingclass hero. Isbell is great but not great enough, Luke just moved 390,000 Album Equivalent Units, as if he had learnt something from Jason Aldean failed to about where pop meets hip hop meets country
Jason Isbell’s “Something More Than Free” Review
You can’t do the same thing twice and expect people to be surprised the second time: you can’t produce an album filled to the brim with slow paced, thoughtful, literate and tasteful Southern soul and expect people not to expect it and worse, not to compare it to your earlier material, not to compare it to Southeastern
Singles Going Steady: New Single reviews Week Of June 15th, 2015
Something More Free – Jason Isbell – Here is where Isbell begins to wear thin, this is exactly the sort of polemic he has been known to bypass and the sort of tropes you expect from Springsteen. The most average thing he has put his name to in three years feels like second guessing to these ears and for once he earns his Americana moniker by being steadfastly disinteresting and stodgy in his mainstream countryisms. Let’s hope there is better further in, though there is a saving grace: Amanda’s lovely violin playing, all underlying emphasis – B
rock nyc Top 10 Songs Week Of May 4th, 2015
Some nice songs, some may even last longer than the week, but they are all no match for Jason Isbell’s masterful “24 Frames” , terrific and strange song, about: memory? the speed at which disasters occur? life as a camera in your mind:? Michael Stipes? Losing your religion? Who knows?
Jason Isbell’s “24 Frames”, Off His Upcoming Album “Something More Than Free” Reviewed (Stream It Here)
“24 Frames” is a think of extreme beauty, it is a gorgeous clicked in jigsaw puzzle about how one relationship is mirrored in a later one, both major, both central for the man Jason is singing to, watching the girl is like watching his father in a movie: they are doing the same destructive things.Isbell (last writer, mostly because the story has ended) is William Faulkner as a pop star
That Was The Week Of January 27th, 2014, That Was
With my friend Jahn Xavier, I went to the Allen Room at Lincoln Center and was floored by Jason Isbel’s “American Songbook” set. You can see it for yourself as part of the PBS “Live From Lincoln Center” program when it airs later this year, till then take my word, it was a career defining masterpiece.
10 Songs, Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
12:51 – The Strokes – “Talk to me I’m older” Casablancas requests and it opens the door on what would have their eagerly awaited sophomore album which unlike this textured guitar fuzzy tuneful masterstroke, didn’t live up to exceptions – A
Donna McElroy And Jason Isbell And Dignity
What Donna instinctively knew and what Isbell couldn’t even guess is that you die for other people, you die well to give them hope when there is no hope and the hope you give them is that in the leaving of life you can be as decent and brave, even braver, than in the living of it. Isbell is wrong, you can die with dignity.
10 Songs: Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) – Burl Ives – Not only was Ives an exquisite singer but this English folk song, dating from the 1700s, is completely timeless; it shoots through over 300 years of nursery rhymes and travelling minstrels completely in tact. Perfection – A+
10 Songs, February 1st, 2014
How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees – Exquisitely perfect disco ballad that changed the Gibbs brothers once and for all and the best line? “And you may not think I care for you when you know down inside that I really do” – A+
Jason Isbell At Lincoln Center, Thursday, January 31st, 2014, Reviewed
The set is one of the most perfect things you will ever see. It starts strong and ends stronger. The word is sublime. All the playing, the entire band, is money. But Chad Gamble is remarkable; the tempo is always a touch slow, it always seems to be dragging itself but he holds it down but with power and not with speed, it is like he is playing martial beats on country songs but he isn’t doing that at all.
Active Viewin': rock nyc Concert Picks w-o 1-27-14
With January’s best album under his belt, the Phil Gammage Trio are playing a record release part on Wednesday January 29th at No Malice Palace on 197 East 3rd Street in the village on Wednesday, January 29. Expect harp, bass and blues and Phil’s beautiful baritone.
Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 12-21-13
Anything Could Happen – Ellie Goulding – This is a big song for Ellie, completely addictive with those “wee wee wees” playing in the back of your head long after its over and a chorus of Ellie’s bringing it back home. Huge in the UK – A
Let’s Have a Good Cry – A Dozen Weeper Keepers
On Thursday afternoons, rock nyc has its“Good Cry” meeting, where we discuss our lost loves, crushed dreams, and any terminal illnesses we might have. I once excitedly started the meeting by stating that my son had aced his college final in International Relations and Helen Bach backhanded me from Manhattan to Brooklyn. My jaw hurt, but the pizza was still good
My Top 18 Albums Of 2013: # 14 – Southeastern – Jason Isbell
The band are a touch generic though it sure doesn’t hurt the knockabout “Super 8” ( and the accumulation of stories work themselves into a worldview and while it isn’t a happy one, it is true one, and while it is mostly a bunch of stories and they don’t always end well, they always show people at their most humane.
Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 12-18-13
Kiss Me Last – We The Kings – A “Save The Last Dance For Me” for the 21st century and as sweet an idea as pop music can throw up, in a world of black panties, it is so innocent and emo in name, in nature it is pure pop for now teens – A-