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Jason Isbell on Resisting the Mythos of Sobriety

A Slight Change of Plans

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Live Oak

There was a fragility to your sobriety journey because the minute your wife Amanda left the scene, maybe you would go back to your old ways. Your song Live Oak alludes to your concerns that in giving up alcohol and drugs, it wouldn't just be the bad stuff that left you. Do you mind singing some of the opening of that song for us and then sharing more about the nature of this worry? Sure. Let me get my guitar. And I'll, sounds okay. Yes, that's great. All right. There's a man who walks beside me. He is who I used to be. But yeah, so it really is kind of a murder ballad about

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