After spending much of the past five years as the co-front-man of the fabulous Drive-By Truckers, guitarist/songwriter Jason Isbell recently left the band to start a solo career. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL, Siren Of The Ditch is his first post-Truckers offering and it finds him toning things down a little bit, opting for a more introspective outlook. There is nothing as immediate as "Day John Henry Died or "Danko/Manuel but the Stones-y feel of "Brand New Kind Of Actress and the soulfulness of the piano-driven "Chicago Promenade show another side of this very talented guitarist that will appeal to DBT fans and should win him some brand new ones as well.
(New West)Jason Isbell
Siren Of The Ditch
BY Sean PalmerstonPublished Jul 18, 2007