Biography:
Jason Isbell is an alt-country singer /songwriter /guitarist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Best known for his years with the Drive-By Truckers where he played with his then wife, bassist Shonna Tucker. Isbell - who joined the Truckers in 2001 - left the band in early 2007 around the same time as his divorce from Tucker was finalized.
In addition to being a gifted songwriter, Isbell is regarded as an exceptional guitar player. His style is mostly in the alt-country genre, but is also infused with rock and blues elements.
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Other songs:
- Alabama Pines
- Codeine
- We've Met
- 24 Frames
- Anxiety
- Chaos And Clothes
- Chicago Prominade
- Children Of Children
- Cigarettes And Wine
- Cover Me Up
- Cumberland Gap
- Daisy Mae
- Danko Manuel
- Decoration Day
- Devil Is My Running Mate
- Different Days
- Dress Blues
- Elephant
- Flagship
- Flying Over Water
- Go It Alone
- God Is A Working Man
- Goddamn Lonely Love
- Good
- Grown
- Heart On A String
- Hope The High Road
- How To Forget
- However Long
- Hudson Commodore
- Hurricanes And Hand Grenades
- I Follow Rivers
- If I Needed You
- If It Takes A Lifetime
- If We Were Vampires
- Last Of My Kind
- Live Oak
- Molotov
- Mutineer
- Never Could Believe
- New South Wales
- Old Flame
- Outfit
- Palmetto Rose
- Relatively Easy
- Save It For Sunday
- Seven Mile Island
- Shotgun Wedding
- Soldiers Get Strange
- Something More Than Free
- Something To Love
- Songs That She Sang In The Shower
- Speed Trap Town
- Stockholm
- Stopping By
- Streetlights
- Sunstroke
- Super 8
- The Blue
- The Devil Is My Running Mate
- The Last Song I Will Write
- The Life You Chose
- The Magician
- The Pilgrim
- To A Band That I Loved
- Tour Of Duty
- Traveling Alone
- Tupelo
- Weve Met
- White Mans World
- Yvette
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COVER ME UP
BY JASON ISBELL, FROM SOUTHEASTERN
INTRO: GUITAR INTERLUDE LIKE 1 LINE OF VERSE
*CAPO 1; KEY OF Eb
[VERSE 1]
D G D
A heart on the run, keeps a hand on the gun, it can’t trust anyone
D G D
I was so sure, what I needed was more, tried to shoot out the sun
Bm G D
In days when we raged, we flew off the page, such damage was done
D G D
But I made it through, ‘cause somebody knew, I was meant for someone
[CHORUS 1]
D G D
So girl leave your boots by the bed we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Someone needs medical help or the magnolia’s bloom
Em G Bm
It’s cold in this house and I ain’t goin’ out to chop wood
D G D
So cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
[VERSE 2]
D G D
Put your faith to the test, when I tore off your dress, in Richmond all high
D G D
I sobered up, and I swore off that stuff, forever this time
Bm G D
In the old lovers’ scene, I thought it’d be me, who helped him get home
D G D
But home was a dream, one I’d never seen, ‘til you came along
[CHORUS 2]
D G D
So girl hang your dress up to dry, we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Til the Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through*
Em G Bm
Carries this house on the stones like a piece of driftwood
D G D
Cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
D G D
[CHORUS 1]
D G D
So girl leave your boots by the bed we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Til someone needs medical help or the magnolia’s bloom
Em G Bm
It’s cold in this house and I ain’t goin’ out to chop wood
D G D
So cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[TAG]
D G D
Cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
D
*Videos show Isbell capoed at 2, (but at capo 2 he's in Drop Db tuning).
This chording makes some lead lines easier.
**Percy Priest is a lake and dam near Nashville.
BY JASON ISBELL, FROM SOUTHEASTERN
INTRO: GUITAR INTERLUDE LIKE 1 LINE OF VERSE
*CAPO 1; KEY OF Eb
[VERSE 1]
D G D
A heart on the run, keeps a hand on the gun, it can’t trust anyone
D G D
I was so sure, what I needed was more, tried to shoot out the sun
Bm G D
In days when we raged, we flew off the page, such damage was done
D G D
But I made it through, ‘cause somebody knew, I was meant for someone
[CHORUS 1]
D G D
So girl leave your boots by the bed we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Someone needs medical help or the magnolia’s bloom
Em G Bm
It’s cold in this house and I ain’t goin’ out to chop wood
D G D
So cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
[VERSE 2]
D G D
Put your faith to the test, when I tore off your dress, in Richmond all high
D G D
I sobered up, and I swore off that stuff, forever this time
Bm G D
In the old lovers’ scene, I thought it’d be me, who helped him get home
D G D
But home was a dream, one I’d never seen, ‘til you came along
[CHORUS 2]
D G D
So girl hang your dress up to dry, we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Til the Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through*
Em G Bm
Carries this house on the stones like a piece of driftwood
D G D
Cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
D G D
[CHORUS 1]
D G D
So girl leave your boots by the bed we ain’t leavin’ this room
D G D
Til someone needs medical help or the magnolia’s bloom
Em G Bm
It’s cold in this house and I ain’t goin’ out to chop wood
D G D
So cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[TAG]
D G D
Cover me up and know you’re enough to use me for good
[Interlude]
D G D
D
*Videos show Isbell capoed at 2, (but at capo 2 he's in Drop Db tuning).
This chording makes some lead lines easier.
**Percy Priest is a lake and dam near Nashville.
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