Drive-By Truckers/Jason Isbell Appreciation Thread

Saw an article earlier that mentioned there wasn’t as much of a time crunch to get it done with no Cobb and no RCA studio.

 

I think King of Oklahoma and Cast Iron Skillet are in a tier of their own. Not a knock on the rest of the album.

 

I’m on my 4th repeat listen of KoO. Came close to crying on my 3rd listen.

 

Minute fifty in and then



SHE USED TO WAKE ME UP WITH COFFEE EVERY MORNING

 

Borrowing this from my buddy, but I agree that Vestavia Hills sounds like it’s written from Cooley’s point of view to a younger Jason.

 

Miles is one of my favs. I think it’s been mentioned in this thread already, but it does give off a Neil Young vibe at points. At the same time, I also hear Tom petty in it (Mary Jane’s Last Dance) along with some Beatle-esque stuff towards the end. Hell, the little guitar riff at around 2:50 sounds like the Full House theme song

 

Volunteer is great

 

I’m still cooking this theory but I feel like all of these songs are sequels to previous Isbell tracks, either spiritually or lyrically.

1. “Death Wish” cover me up
2. “King of Oklahoma”
3. “Strawberry Woman”
4. “Middle Of The Morning”
5. “Save The World”
6. “If You Insist” elephant
7. “Cast Iron Skillet” outfit
8. “When We Were Close” New South Wales
9. “Volunteer” Songs in the shower
10. “Vestavia Hills” super 8
11. “White Beretta” Live Oak
12. “This Ain’t It” palmetto rose
13. “Miles” letting you go

 

i like it. But also:

Spoiler

 

Spoiler

Someone may or may not have given me 30mg at the champions league final watch party

 

Holy shit. Good call. I’ve been trying to figure out who that song might be about.

 

Agree on Mary Jane’s Last Dance. It’s like a combo of that and Neil Young- Down by the River.

 

Good recap of the record release show

 

When we were close ripped me apart. I see that dude every day. Miss him terribly.

 

I've got that same Trucker's poster hanging in my office.

 

I think I’m through 6 listens. This is a great album. King of Oklahoma, Cast iron, when we were close, and Vestavia Hills really standing out.

 

I’d love to hang it up but I’m pretty jammed up in my Asheville apartment. When we get a house it’ll be front and center.

 

I saw Isbell and JTE as a double bill at The Sandbar in Vail Colorado in 2009. There were maybe 20 people there. The sound was absolute shit, Jason was ready to kill the guy running the sound board, fuming on stage. JTE spent most of the evening going back and forth to the van. CSB.

 

Yep, just on repeat.

"And I act like I was sleepin til she walked back through the door" is perfect at the end

 

Pretty great free agent pickup for the 400-Unit.

 

Absolutely. Centromatic was incredible.

 

Hell probably sing king of Oklahoma because he thinks it means he's royalty

 

Second line is
“Don’t drink and drive
You’ll spill it”

Morgan and his stupid ass fans would eat it that up in a way completely unintended

 

oh my god. a long pause followed by morgan leading the crowd in chugging their drinks.

 

This is my favorite tweet in a while.

 

Listening for the first time. About halfway through. These are the ones that stand out so far

Vestsvia Hills
If you insist
Volunteer

 

Album has been on repeat for me but my top 2 at this point are:

When We Were Close
King of Oklahoma

My first listen through I was so anxious to get to Cast Iron Skillet because of the hype itt and it did nothing for me. I probably need to listen outside of the car with headphones and figure the lyrics better.

 

Jamie found a boyfriend
With smiling eyes and dark skin
And her daddy never spoke another word to her again

The old man at the Quickstop
Lying to the county cops
And laughing like his soul was without sin

How did he get so low?
Seems like just a week ago
She was sitting on your shoulders watching fireworks in the sky

He treats her like a queen
But you don't know 'cause you ain't seen
It's hard to go through life without your daddy by your side

Don't wash the cast iron skillet
This town won't get no better, will it?
She found love and it was simple as a weather vane
But her own family tried to kill it

 

“It’s hard to go through life without your daddy by your side” is a soul crushing line.

 

Miles is my favorite “new” song. Mainly because of the nasty bridge halfway through.

 

One of his very best imo.

 

Strawberry Woman turning into one of my favorites.

I like Middle of the Morning so much more now that I listen to it as part of the full album.

Not much love for This Ain’t It, but its a fun little toe tapper.

Death Wish still sucks.

 

Yeah, that seems like the part I'm missing.

Hopefully tonight I'll finally get to listen with headphones.

 

Agree on all this except death wish

 

Death wish grew on me after listening to the album. It fits.

 

Strawberry woman is right from the Prine playbook. Such a nice song

 

I think it’s the drums and the pace of the song that I can’t get into.

Great lyrics. I’d love to hear a slowed down acoustic version of it.

 

I usually keep a playlist for songs that are new and keep them in rotation, so the songs that grabbed me from Weathervanes that I've added to said playlist:

Cast Iron Skillet
Middle of the Morning
King of Oklahoma
Strawberry Woman
This Ain't It
Miles
When We Were Close

 

I have this album at #3 behind Southeastern and Something More than Free.

 

How often do you recycle these playlists?

 

I really liked Nashville sound, I'd have to listen to weathervanes a lot more to out it above that one. Probably 4th for me right now

 

This Ain’t It may not be the most profound song on the album, but god damn it goes hard. Will be amazing live

 

Same.

And it's a heckuva job self producing it. Really well done.

 

This but for When We Were Close

 

Listened to the whole album yesterday and had to turn that one up.

 

My youngest has worn this every day since the album came out. The Lagrange show can’t get here fast enough for him.