Sorry jalfrezi…
“Oh, you’ve been in the house too long” she said
And I naturally fled
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
shameless plug for my band, which I am in fact currently listening to.
Seeing The Mountain Goats open for The New Pornographers is still maybe my favorite concert ever, and I stood next to two members of The Kids in the Hall, to make this a very Canadian anecdote.
The new Jasom Isbell album is out today and is excellent as one might expect. For people unfamiliar with his work I recommend giving it a listen.
Goddamn, Elliott Smith such a legend. Taken before his time.
When you’re all up in the club and you decide to break out the guitar and kick out some old-school jams:
+1 to the new Isbell album. He’ll always have a unique place in my (music) heart. I heard his interview on Marc Maron right before I got sober the first time and it definitely provided me some much needed inspiration. I had never really heard him or DBT before that interview and now I’ve seen him ~ half a dozen times live.
Love this video of Isbell and Amanda Shires covering Zevon on Leterman.
I’ve been to 3 Isbell concerts all in different places. I was visiting family in North Carolina and saw him in a small outdoor venue in Greensboro. Then I saw him in Massey Hall in Toronto - an elite venue I highly recommend. Last time was the Beacon Theater in NYC.
I got really lucky the first time I saw him. He was supposed to play an outdoor amphitheater with Willie Nelson (I think?) and the show was canceled day of. So he ended up playing a tiny venue in OKC. Was a couple hundred people max. Have also seen him at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa and the Criterion in OKC a couple times.