Jason Isbell

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jason Isbell is a singer-songwriter from Green Hill, Alabama. A former member of the Drive-By Truckers, and now a successful solo act, Jason Isbell is widely renowned as one of the greatest songwriters of the current day. Jason took some time out to chat with Lance while on his solo tour stop in New Braunfels, Texas. While there, Jason catches us up on many things including: growing up playing music, getting sober, Merle Haggard, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Forward Podcast. I'm Lance Armstrong, your host.
0:07.1	Like I say every week, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, and which, by the way,
0:10.6	too, we're getting a lot more emails which is super cool.
0:12.8	Send us an email to the forward podcast at we do sport.com.
0:20.0	We do is WEDU and Sport is singular. So the forward podcast at we do
0:26.1	sport.com. We got a lot of really good feedback from from last week's episode with Ben Foster.
0:35.7	I think people were obviously kind of surprised that he and I would sit down.
0:42.1	And that he and I would sit down and so anyways thanks for a thanks for listening and
0:47.9	b thanks for reaching out to us last weekend we had a I think I'd mentioned this before talked about it or some of you guys might have got the email but we had I put on a 50 mile
1:01.0	mountain bike ride,
1:03.8	although some treated as a race,
1:05.3	which is fine by me, but a 50 mile mountain bike ride slash race
1:09.4	in Aspen had about 7,500 feet of climbing, beautiful, kind of the best that our little town has to offer in terms of single track and weather was absolutely spectacular.
1:22.0	It was limited to or capped at 75 riders so we had
1:25.0	75 people and you know the leaves were changing just the perfect time of year and just the perfect mix too of you know average
1:35.4	recreational cyclists but also some some really fast riders but the cool thing was was not only did the event come off, you know, crash free or catastrophe free, which is the first concern or first priority.
1:56.1	But to me there was this real sense of community amongst the people that came and the examples
2:02.0	that people that came and the examples of people that came were just really
2:06.7	really cool we had John and Jessica a couple from Toronto drove as soon as they got the email announcing the event, they signed up and they
2:16.7	drove 1,700 miles from Toronto to Aspen that they did in less than two days and then they did the event and turned around and drove back so you know basically 3,400 miles.
2:30.0	We had three guys from Tijuana, Alfredo and two of his amigos loaded up their sprinter
2:38.5	van, signed up and then loaded up their sprinter van and drove from Tijuana to Aspen. So just cool stories like that and then
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