{"id":805857,"date":"2020-03-30T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=975463"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:38:35","slug":"hear-jason-isbells-songwriting-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-jason-isbells-songwriting-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Jason Isbell\u2019s Songwriting Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason Isbell<\/a>, one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, sits down with host Brian Hiatt in a new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a> to discuss his excellent upcoming album, Reunions<\/a><\/em> (with his band the 400 Unit), his whole career, the challenges of sobriety, fatherhood, why he almost didn\u2019t write \u201cMaybe It\u2019s Time\u201d for A Star Is Born<\/a><\/em>, how he enlisted David Crosby as a back-up singer, and much more.<\/p>\n

The former Drive-By Truckers member also digs deep into his novelistic songwriting process, explaining why he\u2019s suspicious of cool-sounding lyrics when he writes them. \u201cYou go, \u2018oh that\u2019s really great,’\u201d he says. \u201c\u2018Wait a minute, that could be very, very stupid.\u2019 Great lines in a song are usually right on the edge of being meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n

To hear the entire episode right now, press play below or download and subscribe on<\/span> iTunes<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>Spotify.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Jason Isbell, one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, sits down with host Brian Hiatt in a new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now to discuss his excellent upcoming album, Reunions (with his band the 400 Unit), his whole career, the challenges of sobriety, fatherhood, why he almost didn\u2019t write \u201cMaybe It\u2019s Time\u201d for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 20:35:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}