Jason Isbell’s most recent album, released earlier this year, is a solo acoustic effort recorded in the aftermath of his divorce from Amanda Shires and a new romance with Canadian artist Anna Weyant.
Like so many heartbroken artists before him, Isbell turned his breakup into meaningful, melancholy art. Even the songs about new love, like today’s SOTD, are tinged with sadness. He knows that some of his greatest love songs were written about a romance that didn’t last.
Jason Isbell has quietly become one of the most reliable and talented singer-songwriters working today. For two decades, the native Alabaman has filtered his highs and lows through his distinctly southern perspective and set them to heart-tugging melodies.
His latest album, Foxes in the Snow, is his tenth. Every one of those solo studio releases is somewhere between great and excellent. If you’ve never heard him, start from the beginning and work your way through. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
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