Drive-By Truckers/Jason Isbell Appreciation Thread

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  1. Clown Baby

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    Really the only easy choice imo is Streetlights just because it’s an all timer. But at the same time, Cigarettes and Wine, However Long. Coda, the Blue and The Last Song I Will Write are all great songs in their own right. Also if the Assassin counts for Sirens I’d give it a slight edge
     
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  2. fattmante

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    Sirens: Hurricanes
    JI and 400: Sunstroke
    HWR: Tour of duty
    Southeastern: Relatively easy
    SMTF: Speed town
    NS: Molotov
    Reunions: Only children
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma
     
  3. Pancho

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    Agreed. All those songs are great but Streetlights might be my favorite song of his. And the story about where the "think I blocked just a park away" line is really good
     
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  4. SC

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    Sirens: The Assassin
    JI and the 400: Streetlights
    Here We Rest: Stopping By
    Southeastern: Elephant
    SMTF: Speed Trap Town
    Nashville Sound: Tupelo
    Reunions: Overseas
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma/When We Were Close
     
  5. Snakes

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    Dress Blues
    The blue
    We’ve Met
    Elephant
    24 Frames
    Vampires
    Overseas
    When We Were Close
     
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  6. Upton^2

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    Link to this story ?
     
  7. steamengine

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    Sirens: Hurricanes and hand grenades
    400: Streetlights
    Here we rest: Codeine
    Southeastern: Different days I guess
    Something more than free: 24 frames
    Nashville sound: Cumberland gap
    Reunions: Overseas
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma
     
  8. Pancho

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    He told it in the Bluebird documentary from a few years ago. Something like, he performed the song there early in its existence, while the line was still "parked just a block away", but he got so nervous that he accidentally said "blocked just a park away". No one knew he screwed it up and that was the line all the other writers were raving about so he kept it
     
  9. Clown Baby

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    Goat line
     
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  10. Hatfield

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  11. Capstone 88

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    SOTD: Dress Blues
    400: Cigarettes and Wine
    Here we rest: Alabama Pines
    Southeastern: Elephant
    Something more than free: Something More Than Free
    Nashville sound: Hope and The High Road
    Reunions: Dreamsicle
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma
     
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  12. Nole0515

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    Sirens: the Magician
    JI and 400: Streetlights
    HWR: Stopping by
    Southeastern: Live Oak
    SMTF: Speed Trap Town
    NS: Cumberland Gap
    Reunions: Running With Our Closed
    Weathervanes: When We Were Close
     
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  13. Jimmy the Saint

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    Sirens: Razor Town
    JI and 400: Cigarettes and Wine
    HWR: Alabama Pines
    Southeastern: Flying over Water
    SMTF: 24 Frames
    NS: Last of My Kind
    Reunions: Dreamsicle
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma
     
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  14. The.Barron.of.Miles

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    This is fucking impossible but:

    Sirens: Razor Town
    JI and 400: Streetlights
    HWR: Alabama Pines
    Southeastern: Elephant
    SMTF: Speed Trap Town
    NS: Vampires
    Reunions: Dreamsicle
    Weathervanes: Cast Iron
     
  15. Corky Bucek

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    Going with the songs that hooked me the first time I heard them from each album

    Sirens: Dress Blues
    JI and 400: Streetlights
    HWR: Alabama Pines
    Southeastern: Cover Me up
    SMTF: 24 Frames
    NS: Vampires
    Reunions: Overseas (I was at the first show the song was played at in Santa Barbara)
    Weathervanes: King of Oklahoma / When we were close
     
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  16. fattmante

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    Sirens: Dress Blues
    JI and 400: Cigarettes and Wine
    HWR: Go It Alone
    Southeastern: Songs That She Sang In The Shower
    SMTF: Speed Trap Town
    NS: Last Of My Kind
    Reunions: Overseas
    Weathervanes: Strawberry Woman
     
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  18. Upton^2

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    Didn’t see it on his website for sale
     
  19. Napoleon Bonerfart

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    Coming out 9/29
     
  20. Upton^2

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    Yeah it said pre-orders available today but I couldn’t find it
     
  21. Nole0515

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    sold out
     
  22. Nole0515

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    decided I'm gonna go St Augustine for Isbell show Saturday
     
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  23. Hatfield

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    Went last night in RVA, great show. Outside venue on the river and a CSX train rolled through and blared its horn during Miles. Pretty cool
     
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  24. SC

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  25. Clown Baby

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    Since I interact with them the most in here does anyone else get Nole0515 and gilstein21 mixed up because of the avatars?
     
  26. gilstein21

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    Sorry, I changed it recently
     
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  27. Clown Baby

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    No worries, it’s a soothing avatar. But it didn’t occur to me until a week later that you’d posted the Isbell playing with DMB post. I thought that was Nole0515 who usually tags me in Dawes or DMB stuff and was briefly peeved with him.
     
  28. SC

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    This shirt goes hard.
     
  29. Upton^2

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  30. ClemPson

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    Seeing him Sunday night and I am shocked there are still normal price/non resale tickets available. Venue only holds 1800 or so.
     
  31. THEBLUERAIDER

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    Do you think it’s because he’s so divisive?
     
  32. ClemPson

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    I really don’t know. I mean at this point everybody has to know exactly where he stands and has for years. Maybe a Sunday night show in Myrtle Beach just isn’t popular. I bought tickets in a presale and a buddy just picked one up today and it surprised me. I would bet Charleston would sell out for a venue that size.
     
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  33. Capstone 88

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    People don’t listen and then get mad. People on this very board are guilty
     
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  34. THEBLUERAIDER

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    Just to be clear, I was joking about him being divisive.
     
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  35. Dukes

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    I think that was my sixth time seeing him and probably my favorite. Such a great show
     
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  36. Hatfield

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    I was wondering if you were there. Browns Island isn't always my favorite, but pretty solid weather for August and I thought they sounded great. I kopped the show t-shirt and the poster, liked em both a lot.
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  37. Dukes

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    I don’t love browns island for shows outside of things like Friday cheers but I thought they sounded great. Better crowd than I was expecting too.

    I wanted both the print and the shirt but forgot to go to the merch area. Hoping there were extras and they hit the online store at some point.
     
  38. cutig

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    Razor town
    Streetlights
    Alabama Pines, Stopping by, daisy Mae, tour of duty (tough one)
    Flying over water
    Speed trap town, children of children
    Last of my kind, vampires
    River
    King of Oklahoma, when we were close, vestivia hills
     
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  39. two

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    Jason sat in with Trouble No More (Allman Brothers Band tribute) tonight in Asheville

    Pretty pretty cool
     
  40. Room 15

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    Asheville show was great. Not surprising but they really jammed out This Ain’t It and Miles

    Jason sounded great, but Amanda was missed
     
  41. Nole0515

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    off to St Augustine in a few hours
     
  42. Clown Baby

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    No surprise that Tammy didn’t like this post
     
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  43. Clown Baby

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    I know we all list among his best but goddamn the last verse of Streetlights is so profound

    Close your eyes and remember this
    It won’t be back again it’s almost gone
    Even times that don’t seem like much will be your only crutch when you’re alone
    Time moves slow when you’re seventeen and then it picks up steam at twenty one
    Pretty soon you’ll remember when you could remember when you loved someone
     
  44. Pancho

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    The rest of the song is great, but ending with this is what makes it a perfect song
     
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  45. Clown Baby

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    I think that album and that song in particular was when I realized Isbell was gonna be more than fine on his own. Obviously his Truckers stuff was amazing and Sirens of a Ditch has some great songs even it’s spotty but that album really felt complete and he’s only followed it up banger after banger.
     
  46. steamengine

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    My wife wanted shit all to do with country (blanket label for anything acoustic adjacent) until she heard this song.
     
  47. Bo Pelinis

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    This is my favorite version of streetlights. Literally perfect song

     
  48. Nole0515

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    It’s a damn salty sauna.
     
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  49. Bo Pelinis

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    Could my dreams take up too much space? I’ll never find a place that’s big enough.

    goddamn that’s an underrated line in Streetlights