“There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age - and carry a certain amount of scars. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. I think about some nerdy punk kid in the rural south who needs to hear that now.’” Wait ‘Til I Get Over does exactly that.Ī Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. You are more than capable, you are more than able. “I wish I could tell my younger self ‘you don’t have to stick to the dreams people have for you,’” says Jones, “’you can dream bigger. The result is vulnerable, personal, touching on Jones’s relationship to church life, to his mother, to his queerness, to his worth.

“Hometowns have a way of keeping a part of you,” says Jones, “and if I’m making something young-me would be proud of, Hillaryville is a big part of that.” Jones finds something transformative in his memories there and the life he has led since, ultimately claiming and embracing his whole self. In it, he writes through Hillaryville’s contradictions: the pristine beauty and the ragged roads his teenage desire to leave and his adult desire to honor his tangled roots the plantation history and the ups and downs of the Black community that made homes of this reparation town. Worlds Apart Ĭuts For Luck And Scars For Freedom ĭurand Jones’s Wait ‘Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter. It is the story of Jones’s life, his growth and revelations, the wisdom of his hometown and the wisdom he could only gain once he left. The Day The Country Died įrom The Cradle To The Grave Red Moon In Venus įoreground Music Įnemy of the World: Re-Recorded I Don’t Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlen Howard Bob Marley - Tuff Gong Jamaica PressingsĪlpha Zulu.Kendrick Scott / Reuben Rogers / Walter Smith III.

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