Jason Isbell "Something More Than Free (10th Anniversary)" R&B Songs snake their way from

Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios

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completing the EP

while "War Child" references military conflicts in Cambodia and the Middle East

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Jason Isbell "Something More Than Free (10th Anniversary)" R&B Songs snake their way fromHow does an artist follow a critically acclaimed breakthrough record like Southeastern? For Jason Isbell, the answer was Something More Than Free. With songs like "24 Frames," "Flagship," and "Children of Children," the 2015 album found Isbell tackling the subjects he knows best: the dignity of work, the difficulty of love, the friction between the present and the past. Something More Than Free further established the North Alabama native as a