Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Born in a trailer park in rural Alabama, Jason Isbell was taught to play music by his family, then went on to become a guitarist and songwriter for the Southern rock band known as the Drive-By Truckers. However, the demon drink got the best of him and he lost both his band and his wife. After a pair of mediocre solo records, he gave up the booze and found love again before recording the modern classic of country-fried roots music that is 2013’s Southeastern. He dominated the Americana Music Awards that year, winning Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year due to Southeastern’s handcrafted cliche-defying song-writing artistry. Southeastern by Jason Isbell is also the 458th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Liam’s own recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, the British rapper Plan B, pre-Civil War-era murderers, fatigue, the Budget IBIS in Portsmouth, and whether not liking the genre of ‘country music’ makes you a class traitor. All that and more on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!