#Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

[angsty-worm]

ok ok hear me out I know that in general the tumblr queers I happen to associate with aren’t generally into americana and folk rock but if people on here found the lyrics of almost any jason isbell song without knowing the actual music I guarantee they would want to listen to it just cause of how well written and emotional it is

i feel like there was a point I was trying to make but now I’m just obsession ranting about jason isbell

not sorry

[acidtripper666]

me and who

[nofatclips-home]

Only Child by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Written and Directed by: Kurt Simpson

[amplifyme]

"I can't comprehend your pain

But I got arms and I got ears

And I will always be right here"

[krispyweiss]

Television Co-founder Tom Verlaine Dead at 73

- “This man’s importance can’t be overstated,” Scott Metzger says

Tom Verlaine, the guitarist and singer who co-founded the influential punk band Television, has died at 73, Rolling Stone reports.

The magazine cited Patti Smith’s daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, who said Verlaine died Jan. 28 following a “brief illness.”

“More 2023 fretted heartbreak,” a “saddened and bummed” Vernon Reid wrote on Twitter.

“One of the great punk lead stylists. Tom Verlaine was a true downtown hero.”

Television’s 1977 debut, Marquee Moon, is considered a touchstone; it is one of only two albums the band released in its initial incarnation.

“Not many first-time-hearing experiences in my life compare to the first time through Marquee Moon,” drummer Steve Gorman (the Black Crowes/Trigger Hippy) tweeted. “There weren’t any words then, and there really aren’t any right now.

“Damn.”

Guitarist Scott Metzger of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead concurred, calling the LP “a holy grail of creative rock guitar, song craft and arranging that I always end up going back to year after year.

“This man’s importance can’t be overstated,” Metzger wrote on social media. “RIP, Tom Verlaine.”

After Television’s demise, Verlaine would release nine solo albums between 1979 and 2006, even after Television reformed 1992 and continued to play sporadically. But Marquee Moon had the greatest impact; Jason Isbell said he and the 400 Unit walk onstage to that LP “most nights” and he called Verlaine “the realest deal.”

“May Tom Verlaine rest in peace and love,” Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation said.

1/28/23

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: This Ain't It by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

[artjipson]

Favorites of 2023: Just the List

This time of the year every music writer’s fancy turns to the ubiquitous quest for the best of/favorites of the year. We start with a list of albums and singles we played on YTAA at least three or four times. Then we consider what songs and records slipped into our consciousness and we spent more time simply thinking about that song, that album — those words. If there is a pattern to what we…

[dilettantereviews]

Instead of listening to that other country song this week, check this sad tribute by Jason Isbell out. Rest in Peace, Justin Townes Earle

[nerianasims]

We'll ride the ship down Dumping buckets overboard There can't be more of them than us There can't be more

Another country music Jason is making news for being utter scum of the earth. I should very much like this good country music Jason, Jason Isbell, to become so popular that he completely drowns out the MAGA Jason.

(There are more of us than them. That's why they keep having temper tantrums.)

[acidtripper666]

No skips

[bourbonesneat]

do the dead believe in ghosts?

[amplifyme]

I woke up with this Sunday morning earworm. No reason why I shouldn’t subject the rest of y’all to it.

It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in Or the light coming off of your skin The fragile heart you protected for so long Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong It's not your hands searching slow in the dark Or your nails leaving love's watermark It's not the way you talk me off the roof Your questions like directions to the truth

[krispyweiss]

David Crosby Recorded with Sarah Jarosz Days before His Death

- Croz’s final gig was with Jason Isbell

David Crosby was working on a new album - it would be his seventh since 2014 - when he died.

And Sarah Jarosz - who appeared on 2021’s For Free and was a frequent recipient of Crosby’s praise on Twitter - will be on it.

“I just sang on his new album three days ago,” a “heartbroken” Jarosz, 31, said after Crosby’s Jan. 19 death at 81.

“It will always be a highlight of my life getting to make music with him. His voice and songs brought so much beauty to the world.”

Jarosz posted photos of herself and Crosby on a subsequent beach visit and said: “He seemed so happy and at peace on that empty California beach.”

Crosby was scheduled to play a California gig in February. As it turns out, his final show was with another young musician, 43-year-old Jason Isbell, with whom Crosby played on Feb. 26, 2022; his final on-stage song was “Ohio” with Isbell and Shawn Colvin.

“What got him out of the house and to the show was that he wanted to come see his buddies,” Isbell told Rolling Stone magazine.

“And it would have been silly for him to come and not sing.”

1/20/23

[tarazizari]

If It Takes a Lifetime // Middle of the Morning

- Jason Isbell