Drive-By Truckers had been the musical visitors on final evening’s episode of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, and so they introduced alongside an previous good friend: Jason Isbell, the Americana musician who performed within the band from 2001 to 2007. Under, watch them carry out “Hell No, I Ain’t Comfortable,” from the newly reissued Decoration Day.
In a current press assertion, Drive-By Truckers singer Patterson Hood mirrored on bringing Isbell again into the fold for the Colbert efficiency. “Though now we have all the time remained associates with Jason, and actually he and I are nearer now than ever, that is our first ‘introduced’ look collectively in almost 20 years,” he stated. “I think about Ornament Day to be our masterpiece, and he was such an integral a part of that album that it’s fantastic that he’s in a position to be part of us in celebrating this launch.”
As Rolling Stone notes, Isbell has not been a complete stranger to his former bandmates in Drive-By Truckers. In 2014, he played a show in Alabama with Hood and guitarist Mike Cooley. Then, in 2017, he did Decoration Day’s “Heathens” with the group in Nashville. And, a handful of years later, in 2021, Isbell joined Drive-By Truckers throughout one other Alabama efficiency.
Drive-By Truckers issued The Definitive Decoration Day final month. The unique 2003 studio album was the primary of three that they made with Jason Isbell.
