#647 Jason Isbell & Opinions on Cardi B
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For country singer/songwriter Jason Isbell's latest record, "The Nashville Sound," he wrote about his role as a father and an artist in today's America. It ended up being his most political album yet, addressing issues like white privilege and working class frustrations. Jason joins Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot to talk about songwriting, ethics, sobriety, and performs a special acoustic set. Plus, the hosts review the debut studio album from rap sensation Cardi B.
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| 0:00.0 | He took the bomb. From W be Z Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deereg Goddess and I'm Greg Cutt. Country singer-songwriter Jason Isbal's latest record |
| 0:28.0 | is all about finding his place in a divided country. |
| 0:31.0 | When somebody puts out an album that's not political right now, if they're not just a straight ahead entertainer, you know, period, you know, everybody goes, well, what the hell are you doing? |
| 0:41.0 | Why aren't you talking about politics? |
| 0:43.1 | Jason Isbal joins us for a special solo performance. |
| 0:46.3 | Plus, we review the debut from the rap phenomenon, Cardi B. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm the rose that came from the concrete and the rose. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:58.0 | You're listening to sound opinions. |
| 1:02.0 | You're listening to sound opinions. Jim, we've got a jam-packed show today. We've got |
| 1:05.3 | Jason Isble in the studio for an interview and a live performance solo and we are going to review the record that everybody's talking |
| 1:15.3 | about the Cardi B debut. That's later in the show Greg but first before you before me |
| 1:21.1 | we've both been writing approximately since forever Kendrick Lamar has won a |
| 1:26.1 | Pulitzer Prize. |
| 1:27.3 | That's amazing Jim everybody was somewhat stunned by this because there had never been any artist in the so-called pop |
| 1:36.4 | vernacular rock artist hip-hop artist soul artist r&B artist who was ever |
| 1:41.3 | want to pull it sir and here comes Kendrick Lamar winning the first one the first non-jazz |
| 1:47.2 | non-classical musician to win a Pulitzer for music composition. The feeling, the false freedom or false freedom, the poison to fill up in a person. |
| 1:55.5 | I feel like it's just me look. |
| 1:57.2 | I feel like I can't breathe look. |
| 1:58.8 | I feel like I can't sleep look. |
| 2:00.4 | I feel hard less often, off this feeling I a falling apart with darkest hours lost it |
| 2:04.8 | filling the void of being employed with bald and streets is talking filling the |
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