"I was drinking about a fifth a day of, about a fifth of Jack Daniels a day," he says. "The liquor don't make you do the thing. It just lets you and I always loved that line." The bandmates tried to get him to go to rehab but he turned them down. He's now working on his second album with new singer-songwriter Kacey Musgrave.
Jason Isbell is a singer-songwriter and four-time Grammy winner. After wrestling with addiction, he re-examines aspects of his personality that he once saw as his greatest weaknesses.
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