Jason Isbell

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell tells Andy about growing up liberal in Alabama, how addiction led to “getting divorced on a bus in front of friends” (and his subsequent departure from Drive-By Truckers), and Isbell's fear of creatively cashing in on those negative experiences. Nothing hurts harder than having to learn something, and sometimes you need to wait a decade for your songs to find their audience. Isbell has hard earned advice for creatives and humans everywhere!

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the three questions. I'm very lucky today. A, that I got my computer
0:18.0	shit worked out because we just said here for 10 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't
0:22.8	hear anyone, but I'm very excited because I get to talk to one of I think the most important
0:31.0	artists in music today. If I can be so expansive, Jason Isple, how are you? I'm good. And he
0:38.5	thank you very much. That was sure that was quite the compliment. I'm happy to be here talking
0:43.4	with you. Yeah. Well, I mean, I love your music. I love country music anyway, and especially
0:49.7	although I am a snob about like, you know, like now country music. And I everybody, you know,
0:55.4	so many people say it, but like so much country music now to me is just like Bon Jovi, somebody
1:01.2	singing with an accent, you know, with like, you know, cornpone accent to the Bon Jovi stuff.
1:07.1	And I can't hear any more songs about driving my truck down to the river with my girl. Yeah.
1:14.0	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they hit the button. They found a button and they just kept hitting it.
1:19.7	Yeah. Over and over and over. And yeah, they won't stop to try. They won't even stop to try
1:24.2	a different button. There might even be more money that comes out of you. Hit a different button.
1:27.6	I know. I know. Well, but I mean, I mean, that's big business. And, you know, I mean, it's like
1:33.5	trying to get something made a movie made that doesn't have a superhero in it. And, you know,
1:38.2	and no laugh at you. But was that, I mean, we'll get more into it. But was that daunting to you
1:44.7	grown up in the South and wanting to be a musician and just being dissatisfied with the state of
1:49.7	country music? I mean, it's only been going on since the 70s like that. I mean, yeah. Yeah.
1:54.8	I mean, you know, I never really thought about it, you know, because I never really considered
2:00.8	what genre I belong to. So, you know, I know a lot of kids grow up dreaming of being a country singer,
2:06.8	but that wasn't really the thing for me. I just wanted to play and sing. And so, I went after any
2:13.2	opportunity that I had to play or to get better instruments or to get with a better band or to
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