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HARP Exclusive: Jason Isbell (Road Report, Pt. 2)
Jason Isbell
January 20, 2008
Editor’s Note: As you’ll read below, HARP faves Will Hoge and Jason Isbell are currently on the road together on a co-headlining tour presented by HARP, and both Hoge and Isbell have graciously agreed to write tour diaries exclusively for us. What follows is the second installment, this one penned by Isbell - you can read Hoge’s previous missive in our January 12 posting - so keep checking back every other weekend for subsequent tales from the highways and byways. And don’t miss the tour if it comes anywhere near you (full itinerary is at the end). It’s definitely got our stamp of kick-out-the-jams approval.
From Jason Isbell: Howdy out there in the interwebs! I'll be posting some blogs for HARP throughout the course of the current tour, and I'm awful happy to do it.
Not much going on thus far; we just started the trip a couple days ago with a stellar turnout in Memphis. I ran into a lot of my old college buddies, discussed the ridiculously good University of Memphis basketball squad, and had a lot of whiskey. I'd call that a success.
Before the show, we dropped by Huey's, home of the world's best hamburger (and a damn fine French onion soup), for some lunch and chatted at Taylor's guitar shop down the street. Jimbo drove the van over a handful of curbs.
The show went well. The place was fairly full, and Memphis can be a tough town, so we felt satisfied. Stayed out in Arlington with some old friends and their pit bulls. Didn't get much sleep.
Played in Little Rock the next night. I was quite disappointed by the fact that the girl from Evanescence didn't show up. I think she's extra cute. I hear she's Church of Christ though, so we wouldn't be able to do it standing up-somebody might think we were dancing.
I felt like we played better the second night, probably because we were more acclimated to being back on the road. I was also far less drunk than I was the night before….
We're glad to be touring with Will Hoge and his buncha bandits. They're good people and they make fine rock. At the moment we're heading into Texas. Pray for us. -J.}
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