06-16-2017, 06:57 AM
I love this record. Isbell just keeps improving as a songwriter. In the press for the album I think he overstated a "return to rock" as there are maybe only three "rockers" on the album. However, electric guitar does certainly feature more prominently on the songs than it did on the last two albums.
I've always self-identified as someone who hates country music despite having a love of many bands and singers (like Cash, Blue Rodeo, Dylan, Wilco, Neil Young, early MMJ, DBT, Neko Case, etc) that have dipped their toes in the country music genre (or have both feet firmly planted there). However, if Isbell is reaching for the sky on this one and is on a mission to make this the new "Nashville Sound", I'm soon going to be a country music fan.
I've always self-identified as someone who hates country music despite having a love of many bands and singers (like Cash, Blue Rodeo, Dylan, Wilco, Neil Young, early MMJ, DBT, Neko Case, etc) that have dipped their toes in the country music genre (or have both feet firmly planted there). However, if Isbell is reaching for the sky on this one and is on a mission to make this the new "Nashville Sound", I'm soon going to be a country music fan.