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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- 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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Something More Than Free
By: Jason Isbell
[Verse 1]
G
When I get home from work
C G
I'll call up all my friends
D Em C
And we'll go bust up something beautiful
G
We'll have to build again
G
When I get home from work
C G
I'll wrestle off my clothes
D Em C
And leave em right inside the front door
G
Cause nobody's home to know
[Pre-Chorus]
D
You see a hammer finds a nail
C G D
And a freight train needs the rails
Am
And I'm doing what I'm on this earth to do
[Chorus]
Em D C
And I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
E C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
Sunday morning I'm too tired to go to church
Em D C G
But I thank God for the work
[Verse 2]
G
When I get my reward
C G
My work will all be done
Em C
And I will sit back in my chair beside
G
The Father and the Son
G
No more holes to fill
C G D
And no more rocks to break
Em C
And no more loading boxes onto trucks
G
For someone else's sake
[Pre-Chorus]
D
Cause a hammer needs a nail
C G
And the poor man's up for sell
D Am Am7
Guess I'm doing what I'm on this earth to do
[Chorus]
Em D C
I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
G E D C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
And every night I dream I'm drowning in the dirt
Em D C
But I thank God for the work
[Bridge]
D
And the day will come
C
When I'll find a reason
D C
And somebody proud to love a man like me
D
My back is numb
C
My hands are freezing
D C
What I'm working for is something more than free
[Chorus]
Em D C
And I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
E C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
Sunday morning I'm too tired to go to church
Em D C
But I thank God for the work
G C G C G
I thank God for the work
By: Jason Isbell
[Verse 1]
G
When I get home from work
C G
I'll call up all my friends
D Em C
And we'll go bust up something beautiful
G
We'll have to build again
G
When I get home from work
C G
I'll wrestle off my clothes
D Em C
And leave em right inside the front door
G
Cause nobody's home to know
[Pre-Chorus]
D
You see a hammer finds a nail
C G D
And a freight train needs the rails
Am
And I'm doing what I'm on this earth to do
[Chorus]
Em D C
And I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
E C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
Sunday morning I'm too tired to go to church
Em D C G
But I thank God for the work
[Verse 2]
G
When I get my reward
C G
My work will all be done
Em C
And I will sit back in my chair beside
G
The Father and the Son
G
No more holes to fill
C G D
And no more rocks to break
Em C
And no more loading boxes onto trucks
G
For someone else's sake
[Pre-Chorus]
D
Cause a hammer needs a nail
C G
And the poor man's up for sell
D Am Am7
Guess I'm doing what I'm on this earth to do
[Chorus]
Em D C
I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
G E D C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
And every night I dream I'm drowning in the dirt
Em D C
But I thank God for the work
[Bridge]
D
And the day will come
C
When I'll find a reason
D C
And somebody proud to love a man like me
D
My back is numb
C
My hands are freezing
D C
What I'm working for is something more than free
[Chorus]
Em D C
And I don't think on why I'm here where it hurts
E C
I'm just lucky to have the work
Em D C
Sunday morning I'm too tired to go to church
Em D C
But I thank God for the work
G C G C G
I thank God for the work
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