“Jason Isbell’s songs are filled with ghosts. They’re haunted by spirits both welcome and unwelcome, by the personal and historical legacies that make us who we are. Nowhere Is this more evident than on his 2013 breakthrough album “Southeastern”. Isbell offers confessions. reflections. and promises that confront and make communion with those who have come before and remain with us still. Its 12 tracks represent an extended meditation on the concept articulated by another celebrated southern storyteller, author William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.”
Jason Isbell opened an important new chapter with the release of 2013’s “Southeastern”, his fourth solo album. Ten years on, he revisits the album with an expanded set which includes a full performance of the record captured in Tennessee and demo versions of every track on the album. A booklet for the set features reproductions of some of Isbell’s original lyrics for the songs on the album as well as an essay written by noted country music expert Charles Hughes. Bringing things full circle, Isbell also posed for an updated version of the cover photograph.
2013’s ‘Southeastern’ is the fourth studio album from American alt-country icon Jason Isbell, and his second without the backing of his regular band The 400 Unit. Highly personal and deeply moving, addressing themes from cancer to childhood abuse, it’s often regarded as Isbell’s finest ever album, and this tenth anniversary edition comes with demo and live versions of these acclaimed songs.
The Fat Angel Sings 