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@JasonIsbell

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rock musician, occasional actor

Nashville/Muscle Shoals
Joined March 2009
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“You’re gonna lose some of your audience!” Maybe so, but I get to keep ALL of my SOUL
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2 years
she must not have been from too small a town if they had a midnight train going anywhere
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2 years
Ten years sober
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People don’t “lose their battle” with a disease. People die. Dying is not losing.
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4 years
Imagine what a man like John Lewis could’ve done for us all if he hadn’t needed to use his whole life to fight for something as simple as fairness.
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3 years
So... A portion of this money goes to me, since I wrote ‘Cover Me Up.’ I’ve decided to donate everything I’ve made so far from this album to the Nashville chapter of the @NAACP . Thanks for helping out a good cause, folks.
@APEntertainment
AP Entertainment
3 years
Fans of Morgan Wallen are buying up the country star’s latest album after a video showed him shouting a racial slur last week. His "Dangerous: The Double Album" spent a fourth week at the top of Billboard’s all-genre chart.
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4 years
What the truest line you’ve ever heard in a song? Mine is starships are meant to fly
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4 years
8 years sober.
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4 years
Make America Gaffigan
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11 years sober
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Today I’ve been sober for seven years. It’s a good day.
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@JasonIsbell
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9 months
Dare Aldean to write his next single himself. That’s what we try in my small town
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5 years
Let’s do an episode of drunk history but the guy telling the story hasn’t had anything to drink and he’s the president of the United States
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4 years
I said do you speak my language? He just smiled and gave me a Yosemite sandwich
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5 years
If you’re on here arguing the definition of “assault weapon” today you are part of the problem. You know what an assault weapon is, and you know you don’t need one.
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Jason Isbell
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Truth is, I’d much rather have a president who has dealt with addiction on a personal/ family level. Recovery lessons really come in handy when you’re trying to rebuild something that’s in extreme disrepair.
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3 years
If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity covers album of my favorite Georgia songs- REM, Gladys Knight, Vic Chesnutt, Allmans, Cat Power, Precious Bryant, Now It’s Overhead, etc... And damn is that gonna be fun
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Jason Isbell
3 years
One second of silence for each Covid death in the US and you’d be standing still for more than four and a half days.
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Due to @CountryMusic ’s failure to mention John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver at the CMA’s last night, @amandashires and I have decided to return our membership cards. I doubt anybody will care, but we cared a lot about our heroes.
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@JasonIsbell
Jason Isbell
2 years
Southern idioms I just made up: That ain’t my fish to fry Never cut your neighbor’s grass Sweating like a dentist in Wal-Mart Bringin’ in the groceries, one bag at a time Farmers don’t flinch
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@JasonIsbell
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I really hope this is true! I’m literally trying to keep people like you out of my audience so thank you for playing
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@JasonIsbell Welp Jason. We just canceled our tickets to your show! I don’t care about your projection I cared for your music! Man this hits hard!
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3 years
I just rode an elevator with a guy in a Jason Isbell t-shirt and I said nice shirt and he just said thank you. So either I’m looking not so good today or that’s one cool ass dude. Or maybe the shirt was a gift and it’s laundry day and he’s not a fan at all
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Woman, you’re embarrassing us.
@MarshaBlackburn
Sen. Marsha Blackburn
2 years
Why can’t the left say the word “woman”?
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@JasonIsbell
Jason Isbell
4 years
We love you John.
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3 years
People with a helmet on still get hurt playing linebacker man but try playing without one
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Jason Isbell
3 years
We’re now requiring proof of vaccination or a current negative test to attend all our shows, indoors or out. If the venue won’t allow that, we won’t play.
@MSNBC_reports
MSNBC Reports
3 years
Musician @JasonIsbell on why he's requiring coronavirus vaccinations at his concerts: "I'm all for freedom but I think if you're dead, you don't have any freedoms at all." @MSNBC
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Jason Isbell
2 years
Today at the grocery store my 6yo daughter asked me what OG meant and I was like ORIGINAL GANGSTER then I noticed she was reading the back of a pack of bubble gum and it meant zero grams of sugar
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@JasonIsbell
Jason Isbell
5 years
As if there’s an unsexy Mr. Rogers
@nypost
New York Post
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'Sexy Mr. Rogers' costume drops just in time for Halloween 2019
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Jason Isbell
3 years
I’m grateful for a whole lot of things, but my mom and dad still being alive and not being Trumpers is high on that damn list
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4 years
Imagine what would happen if everybody paid 750 dollars a year in federal income tax there would be like 9 people in the army
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Jason Isbell
5 years
I’ve owned and fired those guns. Grew up in Alabama, and they were all over the place. You pretend to be confused in order to con people who actually are. Good to know we’re getting under your skin, though. I have the patience for this.
@benshapiro
Ben Shapiro
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Actually, no, I don't "know what an assault weapon is." And neither do you. And when it comes to policy and lawmaking, knowing what the hell you're talking about matters.
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1 year
This is on HBO you can watch it in the hospital
@thegr8martini
Your Humble Servant
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@JasonIsbell @TheCurrent Do you still require proof of vaccination to attend your shows?
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1 year
I watched 30-50 feral hogs glitter in the dark near the Tannhoüser gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tweets in rain
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2 years
alright who called it the road to Bethlehem and not highway to the manger zone
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4 years
What percentage of Americans died in the 9/11 attacks? How many times have you taken your shoes off at the airport since? But you won’t wear a mask now because most COVID patients recover from the virus or because you don’t think masks work well enough?
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America just got dropped off at rehab
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Please realize you’re asking “Why convict him once he’s already out of office?” in a country that executed someone last night
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If you’re an elderly person or somebody who’s at high risk, I’m so sorry these folks are out here acting like this virus isn’t real. I’m sorry our society doesn’t care more about you.
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Oh no Marsha will we finally get a decent sushi restaurant
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Marsha Blackburn
4 years
Nashville — radical anarchists are coming to town. Please watch out. These misfits want to turn our city into Seattle.
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2 years
That kid playing his dad’s drums was one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen. Rock and roll is so sad and so beautiful
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1 year
Drag is not stripping you morons they don’t go to all that trouble just to take everything off
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@JasonIsbell
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4 years
I don’t care. Y’all are wrong.
@truthwinged
Truth Winged
4 years
@JasonIsbell I like your music but your politics are better kept to yourself
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@JasonIsbell
Jason Isbell
6 years
6 years sober today
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4 years
Yep the South has some serious issues, but we are not all the same as our closed-minded leaders and my wife made biscuits so y’all can kiss my ass
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My grandmother calls the snowman from Frozen ‘Zoloft’
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1 year
Then my plan is working. Gotta weed that garden
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@JasonIsbell I really used to like your music. After you became woke, not so much.
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3 years
Biden could still pull off the historical sweep of every state Steve Miller has been to in Keep On Rockin Me Baby
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5 years
Living
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6 years
Dolly wrote ‘I Will Always Love You’ all by herself, then turned down Elvis’ offer to record it because he and Colonel Tom wanted half the publishing. We all know what happened when Whitney recorded it. Happy birthday @DollyParton . You rule.
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Jason Isbell
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Twitter is the people who are mad at Ellen for being friends with George Bush and Facebook is the people who are mad at George Bush for being friends with Ellen
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3 years
I literally hate the dude’s guts but I don’t care if he has to wear a diaper or if he’s fat. Lotta good fat people out there in adult diapers prolly feeling bad about themselves. I tell my kid we never make fun of people for what they can’t help, only for the stupid stuff they do
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Proud to announce that I am running! Not for any office, just for exercise and it’s really hot and this sucks so I needed to tell everybody about it
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Seems like you’d start by pardoning people who are still in prison for shit that isn’t illegal anymore but what do I know
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And there it is.
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Oh no not Spotify I need that half a cent
@HwoodLiberals
Boycott Hollywood
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@JasonIsbell I am so sick of these communist artist like Jason Isbell trying to force their ugly ideology on the rest of us. I destroyed my tickets to see Isbell at the Greek after his stupidity was exposed. I will also be deleting him from my Spotify. #StopLiberalStupidity
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She didn’t have to promote a damn thing she just got up there on a platform in the sky pregnant as hell and I can only salute, unpregnant, from the ground
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This is Twitter, Tom, not a streaming service. I do plenty of singing on the streaming services. If your kids are still speaking to you, ask them how to listen to music on your phone.
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Not Frank Sinatra
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@JasonIsbell How about you just sing for a change instead of proselytizing?🤷🏻‍♂️
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2 years
I’ve never sued anyone in my life but this kind of shit right here makes me want to call Saul
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Starburst first, then wrappers, then table
@thepursuinglife
Meghan 🩷💜💙| The Pursuing Life
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What’s the correct eating order?
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If you have a fake vaccine card I guarantee you won’t like my music it’s all lefty commie propaganda
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3 years
Yessir 9 years sober today. Thanks for noticing.
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@JasonIsbell Hate to be presumptive but 9 years today right?
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‘How can you support rioting’ they said ‘What about the business owners’ they said
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I would still vote for him if he refused to go to the bathroom when had to piss and just stood there and pissed his pants every time and laughed
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Hoping for healing for @ddlovato and understanding from those who don’t know firsthand what addiction can do. Believe it or not, it could happen to you.
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2 years
World still needs copy editors
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3 years
For every person who’s dying after refusing to get the vaccine there’s probably at least one person who loved them and refused to give up trying to talk them into getting vaccinated while there was still time and I feel bad for those folks
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If It were not for my wife I wouldn’t be standing here today. (Outside the ladies’ dressing room at Nordstrom holding a purse)
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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it’s over
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What really gets me about this is that it’s saying “if you don’t believe you can physically overpower me, you aren’t allowed to publicly disagree with me.” What does that say to the people in your life who aren’t big strong boys? They just have to shut up?
@jakeowen
Jake Owen
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Jason, you’re always the first to get behind your keyboard and spout off with this stupid shit. In “my small town” you just walk up to the guy and be a man to his face if you want the smoke… not tweet it at him…. Tough guy.
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I love your music! Please change all of your fundamental beliefs, but not the work you create due to the existence of said beliefs!
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Attn: @TheDailyShow our daughter hasn’t seen the show yet but she has become a big fan of Trevor
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@disclosetv
Disclose.tv
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JUST IN - The "major" announcement: Trump is now selling "digital trading cards" showing him as a superhero.
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4 years
Start to finish, I believe we’ve made our best album yet. Can’t wait for y’all to hear it. Details soon.
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2 years
Any time we announce tour dates and you don’t see your city on the list, it’s because these are our only shows and we hate you and we’ll never play there ever!
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My genre is “if you post one of my songs online, people will ask you if you’re ok”
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Jason Isbell
4 years
The band and I attended both your inaugurations. Had some of the best conversations of my life on those days. It’s a great honor to see our song here alongside such great pieces of music.
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Barack Obama
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Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to music with my family. I wanted to share some of my favorites from the summer—including songs from some of the artists at this week’s @DemConvention . Hope you enjoy it.
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So now you can sue an Uber driver in Texas you’ve never met for driving a 15 year old rape victim you’ve never met to a hospital you’ve never entered, but you can’t sue the Sacklers for killing your family
@NPR
NPR
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BREAKING: A bankruptcy court has given the Sackler family who owns Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, immunity from future opioid lawsuits.
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Pride! Victory of the human spirit and the only antidote to the poison of shame. We celebrate it.
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When I met @springsteen he said “I like that song “Traveling Alone,” and then he started singing my own song to me and something in my mind said “Keep this, you’ll need it.” And I will always have it. Happy birthday, Boss.
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I’m sorry but ripping clouds and playing grabass during beetlejuice is the coolest thing that awful lady has ever done
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I miss playing shows and going out and watching baseball but not as bad as I’d miss my dad and my grandparents if they literally coughed themselves to death
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4 years
Every promoter that ever told us our bar tab was more than we made at the door when we tried to settle up
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Of course Russell Wilson is good he’s named after two brands of football equipment
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I think every contestant in the hot dog eating contest should have to eat only 1 hot dog, and they judge on style
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1 year
Damn another thing has to come off of Travis Tritt’s rider
@CBSNews
CBS News
1 year
Build-A-Bear Workshop, the stuffed animal company, has unveiled a new collaboration with RuPaul — a teddy bear portraying the TV personality in his signature drag.
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Honestly Kacey I’ve gained about 10k.
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4 years
Let’s have a contest. @JasonIsbell how many followers have you lost? 🧮
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Jason Isbell
3 years
I dunno bro we tolerated a lot without attempting a coup
@StrickAndrew
Regular American
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@JasonIsbell The left is horrible at tolerance. The irony is laughable.
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2 years
Get, and I cannot stress this enough, his ass
@mmfa
Media Matters
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Tucker Carlson attacks BTS for speaking out about hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans
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Love it when they try the old “I thought the left was supposed to be about tolerance” bit. Y’all just made that up. Nobody I know is interested in being “tolerated.” That’s some condescending shit. We’re talking about respect and fairness over here.
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See you know you can’t trust them if they call me a country star
@FoxNews
Fox News
3 years
Country star Jason Isbell cancels show after venue says it can't comply with coronavirus vaccine requirements
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Trust me I’ve been trying to join Mastodon for years now but those dudes play FAST
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Jason Isbell
3 years
Even though the system was designed to exploit them from the very start, Black American voters still participated. If our collective ass is saveable, that’s who is saving it right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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“I’ve never heard of you” is an insult because they assume all artists want to be as famous as possible. That way, the artist can use their fame as collateral. Truth is, some of us just want to be able to go to the guitar store without security and come home with a 1959 Les Paul
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1 year
Herschel Walker (Georgia) has entered the portal
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Jason Isbell
4 years
Watch him go. Never saw anybody happier to be onstage.
@AnthonyMasonCBS
Anthony Mason
4 years
The way I'd prefer to remember John Prine leaving us... dancing a jig to the sounds of "Lake Marie" at the @BeaconTheatre in 2018. Thanks for everything, @JohnPrineMusic
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3 years
That was like an 85 dollar guitar she smashed come on guys
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2 years
We’re on tour with Willie Nelson and I’ll be damned if I don’t take a moment every once in awhile to say to myself ‘we’re on tour with Willie Nelson’
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5 and a half years sober today.
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