It’s been nearly a week since a series of tornadoes struck the Nashville area on March 3rd, causing widespread damage in the city’s densely populated neighborhoods — including the destruction of beloved music venue the Basement East — and killing more than two dozen people in the surrounding area. Volunteers …
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Strand of Oaks assembled a special cast of collaborators, including Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, to perform the new single “Ruby” on Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The emotive garage-rock tune comes from the new album Eraserland, which will be released on March 22nd via Dead Oceans. …
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Jason Isbell was one of the guests this past weekend on Live From Here, the musical-variety series hosted by musician Chris Thile on public radio and SiriusXM. As seen in the above clip, Isbell performed a somber rendition of the Grammy-winning “If We Were Vampires,” one of the emotional highpoints …
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Fifteen years ago this week, the Drive-By Truckers released Decoration Day, the band’s signature 2003 album that also introduced the world to newest member Jason Isbell. Isbell had joined the group two years earlier, shortly after the release of their breakthrough 2001 album Southern Rock Opera, but Decoration Day was …
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