Artist: Jason Isbell Album: Southeastern Bitrate: 227kbps avg Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz Label: Thirty Tighers Genre: Rock Size: 80.98 megs PlayTime: 0h 47min 19sec total Rip Date: 2013-06-07 Store Date: 2013-06-11 Track List: -------- 01. Cover Me Up 4:52 02. Stockholm 2:49 03. Traveling Alone 4:27 04. Elephant 3:37 05. Flying Over Water 3:58 06. Different Days 3:34 07. Live Oak 3:35 08. Songs That She Sang In The 3:56 Shower 09. New South Wales 3:53 10. Super 8 3:25 11. Yvette 4:28 12. Relatively Easy 4:45 Release Notes: -------- Gallows humor is a hallmark of country music. Even the sappiest cowboy balladeer knows the value of a cheap laugh. Most every song on Southeastern finds Jason Isbell in the role of old sad bastard, but the album is saved by those few moments where he meets his sorrows with a joke. ôElephantö might be the finest example of this. The singer describes a friendÆs illness, and while he despairs, the friend opts for hollow humor: ôWhen she was drunk she made cancer jokes.ö The song thrives on this duality and on IsbellÆs knack for description in lines that refer to the friendÆs ôsharecropper eyes,ö her way of sitting ôCross-legged on a barstool/ like nobody sits anymore.ö Throughout the record, IsbellÆs lyrics are so well-crafted that thereÆs a buoyancy to even the most harrowing words. The snap of the Nashville hook line is everywhere to be heard and often with a biting edge. ôHis woman took the kids/ And he took Klonopin,ö Isbell sings on ôRelatively Easy.ö The gothic ôYvetteö is compelling in its eeriness, its narrator a young vigilante who sounds both righteous and fragile, more Randy Newman than Johnny Cash. Easily the best moment on the record is ôSuper 8,ö a cross between Joe WalshÆs ôLifeÆs Been Goodö and Lynyrd SkynyrdÆs ôGimme Three Steps.ö The singer is an aging rocker having a rough night. The song starts with the line, ôDonÆt wanna die in a Super 8 Motelöùand it just gets better from there.