Live In Concert from NPR's All Songs Considered

Jason Isbell: Newport Folk Festival 2015

07.29.2015 - By NPRPlay

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Barely a week after releasing Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell took the stage at Newport Folk for a set that highlighted many of the new songs from that album. Isbell has attained star status in the alt-country world, but his performance channeled the best of the southern rock tradition that emerged in north Alabama and Georgia in the 1970s — two places where Isbell lived and worked before relocating to Nashville.

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