Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Confesssions of a Trucker

"Spotlight on Drive-By Truckers' newest member Jason Isbell"
A native of 60s music mecca Muscle Shoals, AL, Isbell took the bar-band route in high school, having studio session man and local legend David Hood as one of his mentors. In 1997, Isbell decided to study English at the University of Memphis. "I just wanted to write songs," he said in a recent phone interview. "I wanted to learn as much as I could about putting words on paper and making them mean exactly what you want.

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