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Who’s got the best or where can I find the best video of Isbell playing with Drive by Truckers back in the day ?

I wish Jason would include this on his set list more often. Song hits hard. Would love to hear it live someday. I know he can’t play everything, but man.

Is Jimbo’s firing still clouded in mystery or has any news come out about it? I’m sure Jimbo would talk about it if he could but he probably signed an NDA

Dear Jason,

I don’t know if you’ll ever see this, but I want to say thank you.

For most of my life, I thought I was okay. I was successful. I had friends. I built a solid career. If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have told you I had a normal childhood and a fine life.

Then, roughly seven months ago, everything started simultaneously falling apart and coming together.

“And everything you’ve built that’s all for show goes up in flames”

After setting a major boundary with someone I cared about, something in me broke open. I realized I’d spent my entire life trying to earn love by understanding everyone else’s pain while never allowing myself to feel my own.

“You thought god was an architect, now you know he’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow”

I began realizing that what I thought was normal anxiety was actually decades of suppressed pain and fear I had never allowed myself to feel. I started seeing things from my childhood that had always been there but that I somehow never saw clearly. Learning very young that other people’s feelings mattered more than my own. Learning to survive by being useful, understanding, accommodating, and endlessly forgiving.

“The doorman’s asleep, I don’t think I’ll wake him, he’s always so sweet, he’s here really late every night of the week letting the right people in”

But most sadly, shrinking myself in order to survive my environment.

“You vanish so she can go drowning in a dream again”

The hardest part in grieving all this isn’t the realization that I had been hurt by people that were supposed to protect me, but rather that they may never fully understand or acknowledge what they had done to me.

“It’s a boy’s last dream and a man’s first lost”

Instead, I’ve had to come to terms with the most likely scenario, which is that they may never get there.

“But it never did occur to me to leave ‘til tonight, when I realized he’ll never be alright… sign my name and say my last goodbye then decide that there’s nothing here that can’t be left behind”

That realization broke my heart but is also what brought me back to it.

And somewhere in the middle of all of this, I kept coming back to your music.

The strange thing is that your songs were speaking to me long before I knew what they were saying. I’ve been listening to tracks like ‘24 Frames’ and ‘Speed Trap Town’ for over a decade. I’ve cried to those songs but never understood why.

Then one day I woke up and realized I finally understood what I’d been hearing all along. Not because our stories are identical. But because there are certain wounds that recognize each other.

There are certain truths that only make sense once you’ve lived them.

And there are certain songs that become a compass when you’re walking through territory nobody gave you a map for.

“You were running up a mountain in your own mind… and I thought that I was running to but I was running from”

Your music has been that compass for me - mostly unconsciously but now consciously.

Thank you for telling your truth. It has provided me hope for understanding my own.

“But what I’m working for is something more than free”

Thank you for putting words to things that I couldn’t yet name. Emotional neglect. Parentification. Intellectualization.

“He didn’t care about us when he was walking around… just pulling women over in a speed trap town”

“This is how you see yourself floating on the ceiling and this is how you help her when her heart stops beating”

“The fireplace isn’t real, it’s some sort of LED light and a mirror”

And thank you for helping me find my way back to myself.

“If I loved you once my friend, I can do it all again, if it takes a lifetime”

Sincerely,
A fan for life

P.S. If you ever need help with your concert operations, I’d happily trade my desk job for backstage assistance. 🫡

FYI, it looks like Nugs is going to be doing another livestream tomorrow of his show at Radio City Music Hall: https://www.nugs.net/jason-isbell-concerts-live-downloads-in-mp3-flac-or-online-music-streaming-1/.

Cameo of Jason’s tweet but not directly acknowledging him.

yo Jason! you keep sending me emails to buy shoalsfest tickets. I’m not gonna do it unless you come right out and promise no repeats! I dare you, you dumb repeating like no one notices motherfucker

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