Jason Isbell's Desert Island Gear
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
"If you keep your head and your ass in the same place, that'll happen on its own," says Jason Isbell on how he gets the most out of his live performances. On the heels of a new HBO documentary, he and Cory sit down for a deep discussion, talking creating genuine art that can also turn into hits, Muscle Shoals, and the intersection between "guitarist" and "songwriter"—as well as "for life" gear choices.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm chilling today. I'm feeling good. It's a good morning. It's sunny out. The birds are out there chirping more than cellios in the mid-90s. It's about to be summer. It's about to be summer. And I'm excited about that. I'm excited about that. You know also I'm excited about we got Jason Isbell on the podcast today. Jason Isbell, incredible singer-songwriter, guitar player. I'm going to tell you this right now. This is a guitar podcast. A lot of people know that Isbell's a great guitar player. A lot of people only know him as singer-songwriter guy. I'll tell you what, |
| 0:38.9 | this cat can play. This cat can play. And not only can he just like play the guitar, but slide |
| 0:44.9 | guitar too really well, which as most of you know or should know if you've tried, it's hard. |
| 0:51.3 | I've seen a lot of you cats out there thinking you can play slide, but you can't. |
| 0:55.3 | Your intonations off. You're sitting there shaking slide all around because you can't find the |
| 0:59.9 | note. You can't find the center and you're out there doing it. Get it right. You don't want to know |
| 1:05.8 | who gets it right? Jason Isbell. He's one of the cats. He's one of the cats. Incredible. He's got a new documentary out. |
| 1:14.0 | Running with our eyes closed. It's on, what is it on? If I'm going to be honest, they sent me a |
| 1:20.2 | screener. So I watched it on my browser. What, what does it play? Shadrick, what's that? |
| 1:26.8 | HBO. HBO. |
| 1:28.3 | It's on HBO. |
| 1:30.3 | That's where it's streaming. |
| 1:31.3 | Go check it out. |
| 1:32.3 | It's kind of hard to watch at certain parts, but, you know, Jason and I talk about it in here because there's some tense moments, you know? |
| 1:40.3 | Some family and relational stuff that just happens because it's real life. |
| 1:45.3 | And I like the way that Isbel approaches just showing you real life and authenticity. |
| 1:52.2 | I got some, before we get to the interview, I got some messages online. People are saying, |
| 1:57.8 | love the podcast. Can you give me some tips, though can you can you can you just sneak in a |
| 2:03.3 | couple tips somebody message me saying hey i'm starting to be a session guitar player but one of the |
| 2:07.8 | things i'm running into is my timing is not great especially once we start recording how can i |
| 2:12.6 | practice my timing better i sit and practice to a metronoble the time, but it doesn't seem to help my timing. |
| 2:18.6 | My friend, you are probably practicing to the metronome wrong. I will boil it down into two |
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