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Jason Isbell

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

How I Got Started Writing Songs

When did you start taking notes for songs? Probably 20 years ago. The first set of songs that I wrote, I didn't really get out and play live or see a lot of people perform. And then I was working at a restaurant and one of the guys that worked there with me had a showbook. He asked me if I wanted to open for him at this coffee shop downtown. So I wrote like 40 minutes worth of songs,. pretty much, you know, just flipping back and forth between different songs.

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