{"id":25284,"date":"2015-12-19T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25284"},"modified":"2015-12-19T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T20:08:29","slug":"check-out-jason-isbells-ode-to-bands-he-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-12\/check-out-jason-isbells-ode-to-bands-he-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Jason Isbell&#8217;s Ode to Band(s) He Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"960\" width=\"635\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject following <strong>Dawes&#8217; <em>All Your Favorite Bands<\/em><\/strong> video yesterday, listen below to<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonisbell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Isbell&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> song <em><strong>To A Band I Loved<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0off his critically-acclaimed album <em><strong>Something More Than Free<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<strong>Isbell<\/strong> ostensibly wrote the song about the influential, much-loved band<a href=\"http:\/\/www.will-johnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>Centro-Matic<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<strong>Will Johnson<\/strong>), which <strong>Isbell<\/strong>\u00a0fell in love with while touring as a part of another favorite band, <strong>Drive-By Truckers<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Isbell<\/strong>\u00a0left the <strong>DBTs<\/strong> a while back, and we just can&#8217;t avoid also reading into this song some remnants of <strong>DBTs&#8217;<\/strong> demise. \u00a0Regardless, <strong>Isbell<\/strong> nails it in this tremendous ode to lost, loved bands (<strong>The Wrens, The Ass Ponys, Husker Du<\/strong>, etc.).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIXqG_pDcv8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To A Band I Loved<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though everyone tried to ignore us<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d scared them all off by the chorus<br \/>\nThere you stood looking proud<br \/>\nWhat was left of the crowd at our show<br \/>\nAnd I was 22 backwoods years old<br \/>\nYou were singing that night by yourself<br \/>\nAnd I thought I was the only one left<br \/>\nFrom an old southern town<br \/>\nNew ideas bouncing round in my head<br \/>\nAnd I thought everyone like me was dead<\/p>\n<p>And somehow you put down my fears on a page<br \/>\nWhen I still had nothing to say<br \/>\nAnd how I miss you today<br \/>\nMay you find what you gave, all that hope<br \/>\nSomewhere down at the end of your rope<\/p>\n<p>Now I know you&#8217;ll be fine on your own<br \/>\nAnd your families all need you at home<br \/>\nAnd the dream was just smoke<br \/>\nAt least you all got the joke off the bat<br \/>\nAnd you were alright with that<\/p>\n<p>And somehow I&#8217;m still out here burning my days<br \/>\nYour voice makes the miles melt away<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be guarding your place<br \/>\nIn the lights on the stage of my heart<br \/>\nI guess we&#8217;re all still finding our part<\/p>\n<p>And somehow I&#8217;m still out here seeing your faces<br \/>\nIn likely and unlikely places<br \/>\nSomewhere playing too loud<br \/>\nOr in what&#8217;s left of the crowd at our show<br \/>\nHanging out when it&#8217;s past time to go<br \/>\nHanging out when it&#8217;s past time to go&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject following Dawes&#8217; All Your Favorite Bands video yesterday, listen below to Jason Isbell&#8217;s song To A Band I Loved\u00a0off his critically-acclaimed album Something More Than Free.\u00a0Isbell ostensibly wrote the song about the influential, much-loved band Centro-Matic\u00a0(Will Johnson), which Isbell\u00a0fell in love with while touring as a part of another favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25288,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions\/25288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}