Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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What I Learned From Fiction Writing
When i was 15, my dad gave me the original bose. He records all the songs on to a blank casette that aren't particularly vulgar. And then when i'm like 15, he says, i think you're old enough to handle these songs now. Ige wen: It's so weird when somebody reads the lyricsan doesn't sing em. But this is a song called different days. Is the first verse of different days, staring at the pictures of the runways the runaways on the wall. Seems like these days you couldn't run away at all. Even if you did, what you got runaway too? Just another drunk daddy with a white man's point
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