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4th&Five

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  1. It was four days after Father’s Day. Midway through the Drive-By Truckers‘ informal late-night acoustic show in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, their 23-year-old guitarist and budding songwriter named Jason Isbell decided to premiere a song he’d just written as a Father’s Day gift for his dad. That song was called “Outfit,” and the performance that followed that night at the Flicker Bar — the first time, as far as the band can remember, that Isbell ever performed the song — would end up becoming a piece of Drive-By Truckers’ history. The live “Outfit” is a revelation: You can hear the audience react in real time to the first few lines, cheering along as Isbell sets the scene of a young couple conceiving a child in the back seat of a Mustang in the first verse. In the second verse, you can hear Isbell still tinkering with the verse melody. By the time he’s singing about “a bucket of wealthy man’s paint,” the crowd roars back in affirmation. “The perspective of that song is maybe not as earnest as a lot of people take it to be,” Isbell told the writer Stephen Deusner for the reissue’s liner notes. “I’m not trying to tell everyone how they should raise their children. I’ve written a lot of advice songs, because that is a very Southern tradition to me. But not all that advice is good advice, because I’m trying to create characters and paint a picture of people. Looking back, the arrangement’s so bizarre. It loops back in on itself in a really weird way. But I was trying to write a very particular kind of song for FAME to pitch to country singers, and I wanted to do the exact opposite of that with the Truckers. I was like, Let’s just make a mess. Let’s just roll around in it and let the song go wherever it wants to go.”
  2. Speaking of James:
  3. I love Tim (and what he and Zach write). This will only get weirder and I can’t wait.
  4. First acceptance in for our senior. Arkansas. We knew she was in but it made her feel good to see it.
  5. S3 of The Diplomat out tomorrow.
  6. They met last July at MAL. It was a big news story for 90 minutes.
  7. holy shit this! we were walking right by big tex 15 minutes after the eyes and 3 mom's with strollers/wagons are going against the traffic of everyone exiting the stadium.
  8. you can get them extra crispy but they're still tiny. easily my least favorite FF fry.
  9. I’ve never called it anything but Texas/ou.
  10. I think I went 7 hours without pissing Saturday afternoon. Didn’t start drinking heavy until post game though.
  11. we watched the Texas/OSU B12 Championship at Cooter Brown's and it was great. if you're out that way that's the call.
  12. Wife just sent it to me. The keep politics out of sports crowd sure is selective.
  13. Going Friday in Minneapolis and will be in the 5th row. Can’t wait!
  14. Ten years of the same shit. Still no concept of a plan.
  15. We had seats 11-14 and nobody was squatting in our seats but someone down the row was squeezing in 2 extra people so it was a constant battle trying to keep our space, especially in a game like this where people are standing for every play. I agree that for $200 I want to sit my ass in the seat I paid for without constantly jockeying for position.
  16. Interesting play call there.
  17. Improved to 6-5. Daughter is 1-0.
  18. Back to segregation and Jim Crow.
  19. Of course. He almost finished a whole semester of college. Why the fuck not?
  20. From ranked 3rd to shitcanned in 15 days.
  21. The thing that never changes is a huge line of people waiting to buy coupons or corn dogs instead of walking 3 minutes to get to a booth with no line.
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