Home Was a Dream - One I'd Never Seen - Til You Came Along
It started with accidentally winning tickets to a country music festival, so I went to look for musicians I didn’t know that were in the line up. The first one I came across was Jason Isbell, so I plugged his name into Spotify and pressed play. This song came up and I knew I had hit on something. "Cover Me Up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-7VM2VMcQ After that, I listened to everything he wrote. There were so few of his songs that didn't speak directly to me. From the outset, I felt like he understood the notion of being Southern and being proud and being poor, but not being trashy and not being hateful. His music had depth and breadth and something to say, even when saying what he needed to say was hard. And that's what makes his music important. I went the the festival expecting what I had seen before, a really talented songwriter with passing technical skill and a lot of flash, who would ultimately disappoint me with how he sounded and looked li...