![]() ![]() ![]() “If I'm writing about love or death or having kids, I will go from the first person and it'll be me. “The more specific and the more intense something is, the more likely I am to come at that through a character,” he tells Apple Music. This led to a fundamental shift in his approach to songwriting. And you start thinking, 'Well, where could I be if I hadn't made the choices that led me to here?'” “A lot of these stories came from that, because when you start adding up the things that you're grateful for as somebody who tells stories, then automatically I think your mind goes to the counterpoint of that or the inverse of that. “When I went into writing these songs, it started sort of at the tail end of the lockdown period and continued through our reentry into society it kind of feels like a new world, for better or worse,” Isbell tells Apple Music. ![]() Reunions and 2017’s The Nashville Sound all blend anecdotes and memories from Isbell’s past with fiction, but Weathervanes tells a broader story with these vignettes, one with a message that became painfully clear to him throughout the pandemic: You can’t fully appreciate and acknowledge the good in your life without experiencing, and holding space for, the bad. Ten years out from the confessional rawness of Southeastern, not only are Isbell’s lyrics ever closer to his ideal, but he’s got a sense of musical nuance to match. ![]() In an interview just after the release of 2020’s Reunions, Jason Isbell said the difference between a good songwriter and a great one was whether or not you could write about a subject beyond yourself without making it feel vague. ![]()
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