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9 hours ago, 5fouls said:

Powerful stuff.  He's not just singing a song.  He's telling a personal story.

His music helps me get through my own struggles. Mine aren't near what he has been through, and if he can get through it so can I. 

Dang it, I dont know why, but I dont like being at the top. Whatever.

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8 hours ago, mrflynn03 said:

If you dig deeper than the top 40 of county music you can find real stuff. Country music tells real stories of heartbreak, addiction(its harder than you think), love lost, and many other things. Like this song 

Same song covered but well done 

 

 

Think I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but Jason Isbell, IMO, is one of the best songwriters out there right now. All his stuff is absolutely amazing. On this same album, give Elephant a listen and try not to cry:

She said, "Andy, you're better than your past"
Winked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore
She said, "Andy, you're taking me home"
But I knew she planned to sleep alone
I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from her floor

If I'd fucked her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
She don't have the spirit for that now
We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud
And bitch about the weekend crowd
And try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

She said, "Andy, you crack me up"
Seagram's in a coffee cup
Sharecropper eyes, and the hair almost all gone
When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes
Made up her own doctors' notes
Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

But I'd sing her classic country songs
And she'd get high and sing along
She don't have a voice to sing with now
We burn these joints in effigy
And cry about what we used to be
Try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

I buried her a thousand times, given up my place in line
But I don't give a damn about that now
There's one thing that's real clear to me
No one dies with dignity
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow
Somehow

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Totally agree with Jason Isbell being one of the best writers out there. The man has been to hell and back. Genre doesn't matter in my opinion the best songwriters have lived hard and/or experienced hardships and they express it in their songs. 

And like Isbells song Anxiety, I and many others understand what he is talking about and relate to it. 

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