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now i'm curious what his cancer thing was actually about? either way - I gave tropicana about a spin and a half and left it, not the vibe of his that I really love. But the new album sounds like it might be more up that alley, looking forward to it.

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The Band of Heathens formed 20 years ago in '05, but it was this weekend in '08 that we "discovered" them.

This was the weekend that they rescheduled the Arkansas game in Austin because of Hurricane Ike, and may have been the first time a home game was played during the then 1-weekend ACL Festival.  Limited hotel capacity used to be a thing in Austin.

They played a day show at the Festival...we went to the game, regrouped, and looked through the Chronicle for live music.  Saw "The Band of Heathens" listed as an ACL Aftershow at the Saxon Pub, and decided that sounded cool.

Holy Mother of God that show was the best small venue show I've ever been to.  The dudes were juiced up from the ACL show and brought the house down at Saxon.  Shit I was 42 years old then and it changed (or at least fine tuned) the way I listen to music.  

The band has changed, grown, evolved over the years since then....but at their core, they are still the same band.  They regularly play all over Texas in the Fall, and I encourage y'all to catch them if you can.

https://bandofheathens.com/tour/

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2 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

The Band of Heathens formed 20 years ago in '05, but it was this weekend in '08 that we "discovered" them.

This was the weekend that they rescheduled the Arkansas game in Austin because of Hurricane Ike, and may have been the first time a home game was played during the then 1-weekend ACL Festival.  Limited hotel capacity used to be a thing in Austin.

They played a day show at the Festival...we went to the game, regrouped, and looked through the Chronicle for live music.  Saw "The Band of Heathens" listed as an ACL Aftershow at the Saxon Pub, and decided that sounded cool.

Holy Mother of God that show was the best small venue show I've ever been to.  The dudes were juiced up from the ACL show and brought the house down at Saxon.  Shit I was 42 years old then and it changed (or at least fine tuned) the way I listen to music.  

The band has changed, grown, evolved over the years since then....but at their core, they are still the same band.  They regularly play all over Texas in the Fall, and I encourage y'all to catch them if you can.

https://bandofheathens.com/tour/


I’ve seen them twice. Once at kessler and once at longhorn saloon. The kessler is such an intimate venue that it appears some bands tone it down there. The longhorn saloon show earlier this year was really good.

They’re playing the saloon again in nov with jamestown revival. I’m in for that show.

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On 9/29/2025 at 9:40 PM, MirrOlure said:

The Band of Heathens formed 20 years ago in '05, but it was this weekend in '08 that we "discovered" them.

This was the weekend that they rescheduled the Arkansas game in Austin because of Hurricane Ike, and may have been the first time a home game was played during the then 1-weekend ACL Festival.  Limited hotel capacity used to be a thing in Austin.

They played a day show at the Festival...we went to the game, regrouped, and looked through the Chronicle for live music.  Saw "The Band of Heathens" listed as an ACL Aftershow at the Saxon Pub, and decided that sounded cool.

Holy Mother of God that show was the best small venue show I've ever been to.  The dudes were juiced up from the ACL show and brought the house down at Saxon.  Shit I was 42 years old then and it changed (or at least fine tuned) the way I listen to music.  

The band has changed, grown, evolved over the years since then....but at their core, they are still the same band.  They regularly play all over Texas in the Fall, and I encourage y'all to catch them if you can.

https://bandofheathens.com/tour/

The old man down in the Quarter slowly turns his head. 
Takes a drink from his whiskey bottle, and this is what he says….  
 

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Just now, Al_4_ISU said:

She came off that way in the documentary too.

She's always come across as a nut to me.  I'm sure Jason is no easy partner, but she's out there.

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I’m highly wary of being the parasocial middle aged man in Jason Isbell underwear taking his side or against the woman or whatever but she has so much anxious energy and I don’t understand how someone in recovery could manage it.

great cover I’d never seen

 

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7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I never understood why Ray LaMontagne would write a song called "Jolene".  I'm a huge Ray fan, but man, that's like writing a song called "Hey Jude".

Here’s a hot take….his is better than dolly’s. But not better than the white stripes cover. 

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8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I never understood why Ray LaMontagne would write a song called "Jolene".  I'm a huge Ray fan, but man, that's like writing a song called "Hey Jude".

Or calling an album Let It Be

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17 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I’m highly wary of being the parasocial middle aged man in Jason Isbell underwear taking his side or against the woman or whatever but she has so much anxious energy and I don’t understand how someone in recovery could manage it.

great cover I’d never seen

 

I’ve come to the conclusion that Isbell can be a self righteous prick regardless of his chemical state, but it definitely rubbed me the wrong way how she was either smoking weed or drinking in every single scene as her partner is trying to stay sober.

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9 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I’ve come to the conclusion that Isbell can be a self righteous prick regardless of his chemical state, but it definitely rubbed me the wrong way how she was either smoking weed or drinking in every single scene as her partner is trying to stay sober.

I think my take on this is that Isbell has terminal fat kid energy. Tyler, Sturgill - both those dudes have big dick energy. Jason Isbell is *probably* the smartest and best songwriter but deep inside he’s a fat kid.

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17 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I’ve come to the conclusion that Isbell can be a self righteous prick regardless of his chemical state, but it definitely rubbed me the wrong way how she was either smoking weed or drinking in every single scene as her partner is trying to stay sober.

Yeah, that bothered me too.  Beyond that, he's just a superior writer.  He was agonizing over tense and other composition details and she couldn't be bothered to care.  The guy has a degree in English, he's not unaware.

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17 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I think my take on this is that Isbell has terminal fat kid energy. Tyler, Sturgill - both those dudes have big dick energy. Jason Isbell is *probably* the smartest and best songwriter but deep inside he’s a fat kid.

That is so fucking accurate 

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As an alcoholic myself, I feel like if I had a normal drinking wife or one who had a healthy relationship with weed, it would be no big deal for me now fucking years into continuous sobriety. The anxiety thing though - addicts/alcoholics usually have this kind of anxiety or rage or whatever the manifestation is of how they can’t handle lack of control and needing everything to be just so and etc, and this is why recovery is so involved with stuff that is more complicated than “don’t use”. You have to rewire your brain so that you can exist as a sober person without needing to lean on your crutch or you’ll just be crawling out of your skin. And whenever I see her on the doc or in an interview or whatever she looks like she’s about to crawl out of her skin, she looks like how I felt before sobriety, and that shit puts me on edge. I couldn’t live with that.

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