Jason Isbell-Something More Than Free-CD-FLAC-2015-ERP

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     Artist  | Jason Isbell
     Title   | Something More Than Free
     Genre   | Folk-Rock                            Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 43:31
     Label   | Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers   Store   | 2015
     Catalog | SER9986                              Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 760 kbps                             Size    | 248.71 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. If It Takes A Lifetime                                      3:40
     02. Frames                                                      3:13
     03. Flagship                                                    3:50
     04. How To Forget                                               4:04
     05. Children Of Children                                        5:49
     06. The Life You Chose                                          4:03
     07. Something More Than Free                                    3:30
     08. Speed Trap Town                                             4:02
     09. Hudson Commodore                                            3:24
     10. Palmetto Rose                                               4:03
     11. To A Band That I Loved                                      3:53
 Notes  
     After six years with the Southern rock outfit the Drive-By Truckers, singer
     and guitarist Jason Isbell left the group in 2007 to pursue a solo career,
     becoming one of the most successful and respected figures in the
     alt-country and singer/songwriter communities. While full of Southern grit,
     Isbell's songs also show off an introspective side and a gift for nuanced
     storytelling.
     His early solo efforts boasted a raw, rootsy flavor, and after coming to
     terms with a dependence on alcohol and drugs, Isbell's songwriting gained
     greater depth, his albums were stronger, and his work won increased
     recognition from the listening public. Isbell's first solo album, 2007's
     "Sirens Of The Ditch", was a bluesy, punk-infused lesson in guitar tones
     and Southern swagger, while 2013's "Southeastern", his first album after
     getting sober, was a major critical and commercial breakthrough, and 2021's
     "Georgia Blue" saw him honoring artists from the state of Georgia.
     Isbell's 2013 breakthrough album "Southeastern" was written and recorded in
     the wake of Isbell's newfound sobriety, and it often sounded and felt like
     a musical version of the Fourth Step, in which Isbell took a long, hard
     look in the mirror as he came to terms with the emotional wreckage he left
     in his wake during his years as a drunk. By comparison, "Something More
     Than Free", Isbell's 2015 follow-up, plays out as the work of a man a year
     or so into his recovery, grateful but still working with the nuts and bolts
     of living as a better and more mature man while the shadows of the past
     remain faintly but clearly visible.
     The opening tune, "If It Takes a Lifetime," is sung in the voice of a man
     adjusting to a quiet existence, not in love with every aspect of life as a
     working stiff but happy to be in a better place, and it sets the stage for
     a set of songs that move back and forth between past and present as
     Isbell's characters deal with lovers they wronged ("How to Forget"), the
     burdens of family ("Children of Children"), the dignity and restlessness of
     labor ("Something More Than Free"), and making sense of the
     responsibilities and disappointments of adult life ("Hudson Commodore" and
     "The Life You Chose").
     "Something More Than Free" lacks some of the keen focus of "Southeastern",
     in part because it plays on a broader emotional backdrop, and musically the
     set has a more eclectic feel, with poppier accents and a tone that's a bit
     more artful (there also isn't a full-on rocker here like Southeastern's
     "Super 8"). But "Something More Than Free" makes clear "Southeastern" was
     no fluke; the insights Isbell gained as a songwriter are just as evident on
     these 11 songs, and as a performer he's attained a nuanced maturity that
     demonstrates how far he's come since his days with the Drive-By Truckers
     (where he already sounded like a prodigy), but without a hint of
     pretension.
     "Southeastern" was a triumph from a talented songwriter and vocalist who
     stepped up to a new level; "Something More Than Free" shows Jason Isbell
     knows he just got there, and is still making use of that hard-won knowledge
     - it confirms his status as a major artist.

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