★★★★★
American singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, who started his music career in the band Drive-by Truckers before embarking on a successful solo career, is back with his fourth solo album and best one to date, Southeastern. This refreshing country album showcases Isbell's powerful vocals, emotive melodies and candid lyrics about love, hope and his past struggles with an alcohol addiction. Southeastern features many songs which would be worthy of a place on a Best Of album in years to come...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-03-04
★★★★★
*Pushes things off desk in frustration* I thought that i had it all figured out. I thought that I unlocked a legitimate explanation to why I like the music I do. I was wrong, bro. And before I get into this let me go back about a week. (queue the Wayne's World doodooleeedoo doodooleedoo doodooleedoo) We were off for the holidays for the past two weeks and it was a nice time to regroup...
- www.syffal.com
2014-01-08
★★★★★
Rare example of sobriety and marriage causing great country music... Jason Isbell appears on the cover of Southeastern in a black-and-white, head-and-shoulders portrait, bearing the expression a man might when posing for a passport photo or a mugshot, or staring into the mirror of a hungover morning, wondering what he's doing with himself. Whether or not this stark design was an artistic or budgetary consideration, it suits the album...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-12-11
★★★★★
Earlier this year, when the AP.net staff ranked its collective favorite albums from the first half of 2013, the list was populated largely by critical favorites from the year's first six months (The National, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Deafheaven, and Justin Timberlake, to name a few), as well as by a few scene staples like Fall Out Boy and Paramore...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-11-12
★★★★★
Tweet Reinventing Modern Country In a world where the music in the country-folk fusion vein can quickly turn into cliché-laden tunes that either pander to stereotypical American values and symbols or degenerate into love songs vague enough for widespread emotional appeal, it's good to hear an artist that keeps it real. This can undoubtedly be said about Jason Isbell, the Alabama singer-songwriter and past member of the southern rock outfit Drive-By Truckers...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-11-05
★★★★★
Jason Isbell first found fame as part of the contemporary Southern Rock band The Drive by Truckers. The band has proven to be a fertile field, spawning not only Isbell but solo careers for members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley and a new band for former member Shonna Tucker. Isbell was often responsible for the starker moments of reality that fell between Patterson Hood's raunchier, larger than life outlaw ballads...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-07-30
★★★★★
In recent interviews with the New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, Jason Isbell has been admirably forthcoming about his alcoholism, admitting that he can't remember much of the time he spent with the Drive-By Truckers, who decided to move on without him after several attempts at rehabilation...
- pitchfork.com
2013-07-12
★★★★★
Release Date: June 13, 2013 It seems as if finally, ten years after first appearing on the radars of music critics as a member of acclaimed Southern Rockers, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell is finally getting the mainstream acclaim and exposure he deserves. His fourth solo Album Southeastern currently holds a 90 on Metacritic and is receiving praise from The AV Club to Spin and back. One thing the critics like to point out is the fact that Southeastern is Isbells "Sober Record"...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-15
★★★★★
Jason Isbell received a lot of recognition early and often. As a precocious adolescent growing up on the outskirts of Alabama's famed Muscle Shoals region, he idolized and revered the area's musical heroes, worshipping at the shrine of F.A.M.E. studios and its' star-studded recording clientele in the same way his local peers bowed down at the sight of nearby Bryant-Denny Stadium and the University of Alabama football team...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-19
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