Im sorry i didnt read every post in this thread. Dont yell at me, please.

Was I yelling? I was saying I agree with you.

Really enjoying the new one. Only song I don't really care for is Anxiety. Just goes on too long. Wish they would have taken that extra two minutes and given it to Cumberland Gap.

Looking forward to seeing him (with Mountain Goats!!) in St. Paul next weekend.

I'm going to see him tonight. I've only seen him perform with the Truckers, which was (obviously) a long time ago.

I got the new one last week. So far, "Chaos and Clothes" - or even all of the last 3 songs - are what I am going back to more and more.

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Agree. Anxiety does not fit. It's this album's "beautiful sorta".

Hey, I love Beautiful Sorta!

I think this might be Jason's best solo album so far. It's definitely right up there with Southeastern. I'd rank em:

Southeastern / The Nashville Sound...Mostly top shelf tunes, minimal skippers.

Self-Titled...Loose, electric, fuzzy, slightly unpredictable early Isbell. Hard to believe the same guy made this.

Here We Rest...Side A is great, Side B not so much.

Sirens of the Ditch...Several great songs that were mainstays of his live show for the pre-Alabama Pines years, just doesn't really hang together as an album.

Something More Than Free...I don't know if it's the cover, or the production, or the songs themselves, but something about this album just bores me to tears before I even put it on.

Beautiful Sorta is fucking awesome.

It doesn't fit Cold Roses.

Disagree - that album needs a dose of energy in it. Plus it's loose and ramshackle like the rest.

The show the other night was good. There was a brief amazing lightning storm and downpour after the Mountain Goats' opening set. It added to the experience.

I've come to think that Isbell is a very good singer, although it tends to get unfairly overshadowed by his songwriting.

He ended with Whipping Post, which gave me a chance to say goodbye, in a sense, to Gregg Allman, whom I got to hear sing many times.

His singing has gotten so much better since he stopped drinking. He's never been bad, but there were times when he would just kinda yell.

I think this is gonna be my album of the summer. Just keeps getting better the more I listen to it.

You really don't like Something More Than Free? It has so many good song songs on it. Not really any bad ones. I thought it was a pretty consistent follow up to Southeastern and gave it more attention than both Sirens and Here We Rest. Each his own I guess.

Something More Than Free is fantastic

I love it. I think it is a great follow up to Southeastern. Overall I think the Something More Than Free is a more consistent listen but I think the standout tracks on Southeastern are far better which sets it apart. Elephant and Cover me Up are outstanding as well as Live Oak but the song that really gets at me on that album is The Songs That She Sang in the Shower. I know some people don't agree but I fucking absolutely love that song. I really only like Traveling Alone because I ran into him about 8 years ago in Ybor City, not trying to name drop or anything. I'm talking like 10 seconds of holy shit aren't you Jason Isbell.

Does it remind you of someone??


"Chaos And Clothes"

The ground was wet and the sky was dark
You took her bet, she took your heart
Wrapped it 'round an oak tree
Like you did that '67 GTO
Oh no

Lovers leave chaos and clothes
In quiet corners where you rarely ever go
One day you find proof she was real
Despite your struggle to forget
Oh yes

You're in a fight to the death my friend
Black metal t-shirts your shield
You've got your past on your breath my friend
Now name all the monsters you've killed
Let's name all the monsters you've killed

The man she chose to take your place
Turns his collar up to better frame his face
How you'd love to hate her
But you just can't hate somebody you don't know
Oh no

Did she leave a trail of crumbs
So you could find you're what you could become
Or did she know you well enough
To realize that garden just won't grow?
Oh no

You're in a fight to the death my friend
Airways a grand battlefield
You've got your past on your breath my friend
Now name all the monsters you've killed
Let's name all the monsters you've killed

In my sleep I build machines
But nobody ever wants to hear about my dreams
Last night I saw a burning Ferris Wheel
The meaning's anybody's guess
Oh yes

Lovers leave chaos and clothes
More debris that you can sort through in one go
You say love is hell
But it's the ghost of love that's made you such a mess
Oh yes

You're in a fight to the death my friend
Fight like you're chained to the wheel
You've got your past on your breath my friend
Now name all the monsters you've killed
Let's name all the monsters you've killed

the black metal t-shirts line makes me think of his buddy ryan adams...

The show in St Paul last weekend was incredible. Anxiety was an unfortunate choice for show opener (so loooong), but it was all after that. They played the whole new album minus Something to Love, a bunch of SMTF and SE, Never Gonna Change, and closed with Whipping Post. Mountain Goats kicked ass too.

ding ding ding ding ding ! ! ! ! ! !

Danko/manuel solo on Austin City Limits hooked me. Really dig the new album.

I do think the song is about ryan.

Besides what you say there is TVE "you say love is hell" part