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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Jason Isbell- "The Magician"
From the Album Sirens of the Ditch
http://www.jasonisbell.com/
Just thought I'd be the first to put up a Jason Isbell tab on this site. Its my first
so it may look a little sloppy. I don't really know if the names of the chords I wrote are
so I just figured I'd write them down. I'm pretty sure this is the way he plays
the chords in the songs as well.
Chords used-
G: 3x0033
F#/G: 2x0033
Em/G: 02x033
D: xx0232
C/G: x3x033
Am/G: x02233
Intro:
G F#/G Em/G
G F#/G Em/G
G F#/G Em/G D C/G
Verse:
G F#/G Em/G
You watch every move
G F#/G Em/G
and call it slight of hand
G F#/G Em/G
you know it's what I do
D C/G
but never who I am, never who I am
G F#/G Em/G
started on the street
G F#/G Em/G
cards and dollar bills
G F#/G Em/G
shuffling my feet
D C/G G
never could be still, never could be still
Chorus:
D C/G Em/G
G
and I am an orphan man but ain't we all
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I can make myself disappear
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I could be somewhere worse than here
(Next two verses and all following choruses are the same)
I had a bride
sawed her in half
couple people cried
but most of them just laughed, most of them just laughed
and I had a son
strong of hand and will
taught him how to run
but never how to steal, never how to steal
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I can't make myself reappear
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I hope there's somewhere worse than here
Bridge:
Am/G C/G
I was called amazing
Am/G C/G
I make folks believe
Am/G C/G
With nothing in my pockets
Am/G C/G
And nothing up my sleeve
(solo/bridge chords same as verses)
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I can make myself disappear
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
and I know there's somewhere worse than here
worse than here
worse than here
From the Album Sirens of the Ditch
http://www.jasonisbell.com/
Just thought I'd be the first to put up a Jason Isbell tab on this site. Its my first
so it may look a little sloppy. I don't really know if the names of the chords I wrote are
so I just figured I'd write them down. I'm pretty sure this is the way he plays
the chords in the songs as well.
Chords used-
G: 3x0033
F#/G: 2x0033
Em/G: 02x033
D: xx0232
C/G: x3x033
Am/G: x02233
Intro:
G F#/G Em/G
G F#/G Em/G
G F#/G Em/G D C/G
Verse:
G F#/G Em/G
You watch every move
G F#/G Em/G
and call it slight of hand
G F#/G Em/G
you know it's what I do
D C/G
but never who I am, never who I am
G F#/G Em/G
started on the street
G F#/G Em/G
cards and dollar bills
G F#/G Em/G
shuffling my feet
D C/G G
never could be still, never could be still
Chorus:
D C/G Em/G
G
and I am an orphan man but ain't we all
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I can make myself disappear
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
D C/G Em/G F#/G G
I could be somewhere worse than here
(Next two verses and all following choruses are the same)
I had a bride
sawed her in half
couple people cried
but most of them just laughed, most of them just laughed
and I had a son
strong of hand and will
taught him how to run
but never how to steal, never how to steal
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I can't make myself reappear
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I hope there's somewhere worse than here
Bridge:
Am/G C/G
I was called amazing
Am/G C/G
I make folks believe
Am/G C/G
With nothing in my pockets
Am/G C/G
And nothing up my sleeve
(solo/bridge chords same as verses)
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
I can make myself disappear
I am an orphan man but ain't we all
and I know there's somewhere worse than here
worse than here
worse than here
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