And I also didn’t necessarily know if I was going to be good enough or strong enough to pull that off. “I just didn’t think that people cared as much about this kind of music anymore. He’s the first to admit it could have gone the other way. “I always figured what I do would be more of a boutique genre,” Isbell says. His audience, like Brandi Carlile‘s, isn’t taking the rise of a singer-songwriter of the old order for granted, which is why he’d be filling venues like L.A.’s Greek Theatre right about now, if the spring and summer had gone as planned. Isbell, easing into the poet-laureate rocker role at 41, seems like someone who might get to forego the ebbing part. The other recent constant, John Prine, recently felled by coronavirus complications, had a lot of ebbs and flows in his 50-year career before enjoying a nice plateau of praise and attention in the final stretch. If he’s not “the last of my kind,” to quote one of his older song titles, then he remains among the first order of those making music that feels like it gives a damn about the way we actually live and love.įor the better part of the last decade - ever since his breakthrough “Southeastern” album in 2013 - Isbell has been thought of as one of the two kings of Americana, that loose catch-all for music that has any kind of roots basis at all. The album, officially credited to Isbell and his longtime band, the 400 Unit, is full of emotional nourishment and moral fiber, dished up as quick narrative tapas. But in any case, “Reunions” is reason to feel glad all over. There may be something to that: Isbell’s songs have melancholia in their DNA, by way of their lyrical undertows or minor keys, even when his themes veer toward succor and the amps are turned consolingly up to 11. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Kitty Eisele adapted it for the web.“Sad rock,” Isbell says, laughing, as if we’ve stumbled upon his true idiom at last. It took Dave Cobb and it took Brandi and then it took Natalie and Maren Morris.Īmy Salit and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. While the idea was mine, it wasn't only me that made this Highwomen be a thing. had a band, The Highwomen." Then I told my friend Dave Cobb about my idea and he really liked it and he said, "I'm going to have you meet Brandi Carlile." And we met. But I thought, what am I going to do about that, in the event that she does go into country music? And then I thought about Waylon and Kris and them of The Highwaymen, and I was like, "They were kind of speaking about ageism." I said, "It'd be cool if I. In 2016 there was 13% representation of women to men on country radio, and now it still sits pleasantly at 16% on a good week. and it was a Carrie Underwood song from six years before that or something. So I started just taking notes on the radio because in 22 songs, one woman's voice. And she would dance a little bit to The Beatles and stuff and started seeing the possibility that she might go into music one day. Editors' Picks Singer Brandi Carlile Talks Ambition, Avoidance And Finally Finding Her PlaceĪlso, during this time when I was leaving, I was thinking about how Mercy picked up a kazoo and she could play a kazoo.
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