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
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
New South Wales
By:Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
Tabbed by: the JK5000
Capo 2, chords relative to capo
Tuning: DADGBE
[Intro]
D
[Verse]
D G D
Here we sit, across the table from each other
G D
A thousand miles from both our mothers
E7 A
Barely old enough to rust.
D G D
Here we sit, pretending both our hearts are anchored
G D
Taking candy from these strangers
A D
Amidst the diesel and the dust.
D G D
Here we sit, singing words nobody taught us.
G D
Drinking fire and spitting sawdust
E7 A
Trying to teach ourselves to breathe.
D G D
We haven't yet, but every chorus brings us closer
G D
Every flyer and every poster
A D
Gives a piece of what we need.
[Chorus 1]
G D
And the sand that they call cocaine cost you twice as much as gold
G A
You'd be better of to drink your coffee black
D D/C# D/B D/A G D
But I swear the land it listened to the stories that we told
D A G D
God bless the busted boat boat that brings us back
[Verse]
D G D
Mornings rough, it don't give a damn about the mission
G D
Has no aesthetic or tradition,
E7 A
Only lessons never learned.
D G D
And I'd had enough, about a month ago tomorrow.
G D
Parting holds no trace of sorrow
A D
For the bitter and the burned.
[Chorus 2]
G D
And the piss they call tequila even Waylon wouldn't drink
G A
Well I'd rather sip this Listerine I packed
D D/C# D/B D/A G D
But i swear I've never seen a better place to sit and think
D A G D
God bless the busted ship that brings us back
(violin and picking solo)
Repeat Chorus 1
D A G D
God bless the busted boat that brings us back (x2)
END
*D D/C# D/B D/A G refers to a walk-down using the bass strings while still in a D form.
Please enjoy and feel free to comment.
"Do your best, forget the rest"
-JK5000
By:Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
Tabbed by: the JK5000
Capo 2, chords relative to capo
Tuning: DADGBE
[Intro]
D
[Verse]
D G D
Here we sit, across the table from each other
G D
A thousand miles from both our mothers
E7 A
Barely old enough to rust.
D G D
Here we sit, pretending both our hearts are anchored
G D
Taking candy from these strangers
A D
Amidst the diesel and the dust.
D G D
Here we sit, singing words nobody taught us.
G D
Drinking fire and spitting sawdust
E7 A
Trying to teach ourselves to breathe.
D G D
We haven't yet, but every chorus brings us closer
G D
Every flyer and every poster
A D
Gives a piece of what we need.
[Chorus 1]
G D
And the sand that they call cocaine cost you twice as much as gold
G A
You'd be better of to drink your coffee black
D D/C# D/B D/A G D
But I swear the land it listened to the stories that we told
D A G D
God bless the busted boat boat that brings us back
[Verse]
D G D
Mornings rough, it don't give a damn about the mission
G D
Has no aesthetic or tradition,
E7 A
Only lessons never learned.
D G D
And I'd had enough, about a month ago tomorrow.
G D
Parting holds no trace of sorrow
A D
For the bitter and the burned.
[Chorus 2]
G D
And the piss they call tequila even Waylon wouldn't drink
G A
Well I'd rather sip this Listerine I packed
D D/C# D/B D/A G D
But i swear I've never seen a better place to sit and think
D A G D
God bless the busted ship that brings us back
(violin and picking solo)
Repeat Chorus 1
D A G D
God bless the busted boat that brings us back (x2)
END
*D D/C# D/B D/A G refers to a walk-down using the bass strings while still in a D form.
Please enjoy and feel free to comment.
"Do your best, forget the rest"
-JK5000
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