First Time Hearing Jason Isbell - “Cover Me Up” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@neildonley9626]

Jason is one of the best songwriters alive. All of his albums are incredible, as well as those with the Drive By Truckers. I could recommend any song. Just pick one out of a hat.

[@alexandermahoney1789]

He don’t have a bad song!

[@jimbaileyme]

MORE ISBELL PLEASE!! If we were vampires, elephant, decoration day, dress blues...you guys do a great job by the way!

[@trentbobo4171]

All of these.

[@mutt3135]

Might surprise you by its title, but "If We Were Vampires" is IMHO one of the greatest love songs ever written.

[@mutt3135]

+"Children of Children"

[@trentbobo4171]

@@mutt3135 it's definitely the best romantic song written in this generation

[@kakuspis]

@@mutt3135 This was my wedding song - it is beautiful

[@timdore1131]

John Mayer made the comment (and its often quoted regarding Jason Isbell's song writing prowess) - "Jason Isbell is the best lyric writer of my generation. He lives at a level where even great writers can only visit." He's 100% correct! Simply amazing musician and writer. And the slide guitar on this song is no joke. When Jason is home in Nashville and available he lends his slide guitar talents in the recording studio to friends and producers on a regular basis. He's a very well respected guitarist.

[@dannyberry8725]

Sadler Vaden does the slide on this. Both he and Jason are incredible and under-rated guitar players. The whole damn band is under-rated. They are one of, if not the best live acts around.

[@timdore1131]

Sadler isn’t with the band quite yet when this was recorded. That’s Jason doing a lion share of all the guitar work on this album. The only two members of the 400 unit on this album are Chad (drums) and Derry (keys). Even his best bud Jimbo is missing from this one.

[@FUBAR1986]

This song and the way he sings it is like that part in the middle of a movie where the character is contemplating life choices…… I don’t care what style of music it is when the singer puts that much emotion into it. Pure gold.

[@theappalachianambassador8284]

Just took a couple weeks vacation and followed him and the band around northern Europe. Six shows, all general admission, stand right up front for under 40 bucks. The most beautiful venues. Crowd knew every word to every song. Always applauded each time he hit the line about swearing off alcohol forever this time. Drummer came in with some haunting beats as the crescendo grew each night. So special and absolutely unforgettable.

[@gordonpearson7494]

Jealous

[@grilledspaghetti]

I was in Cologne at the Gloria Theater. It was like a religious experience for me. I cried 4 times.

[@ronniefromOR]

Holy shit that's awesome

[@elmoblatch9787]

Were the morons singing along with him? I fucking hate that at concerts.

[@dannyberry8725]

This is a song he wrote for his wife for sticking with him through thick and thin and helping him get sober.

[@samuelnation5300]

Nearly every single song on that album is a classic with lyrics that have depth and meaning. Elephant, live oak, Yvette, etc. Elephant will knock you to your knees just incredible.

[@brandonsimmons1695]

You guys have to do it we were vampires by Isbell. It won a Grammy. It will make you tear up

[@paulhopkins1905]

"And the old lovers sing, I thought it'd be me that helped him get home, but home was a dream, one I'd never seen till you came along". That line is pure perfection in songwriting

[@pluckinmageetar]

This man deserves a drop down the "rabbit hole." Some of the best song writing in a decade when released.

[@lauranievinski8323]

Check out his song If We Were Vampires. It’s absolutely beautiful. His wife is in his band and she plays the violin. Also check out White Man’s World and Elephant. He’s an incredible songwriter. Great reaction.

[@beantoes1277]

I had a patient with cancer who introduced Jason Isbell to me, and the first song I heard was Elephant. She would play that song on repeat.

[@EricWatkins7]

Asia and BJ!!! Thank you SO MUCH more covering Jason!!!! The world needs to KNOW about Jason. I can see in both your eyes, that he's reaching you, and he has dozens and dozens of songs this good. PLEASE, keep them coming, and thank you so much again. "Subscribed" as of now!

[@kakuspis]

Jason is my favorite artist. This song is about him overcoming addiction and coming back to his partner with full commitment and longing from being away (in recovery). My wedding song was actually If We Were Vampires 10/10 recommend checking that out.

[@quintondees4501]

Love when music draws you in and takes you somewhere. Vocals, lyrics and guitar came together to create a masterpiece

[@robertmcevoy4241]

Jason Isbell is an amazing songwriter as well as a terrific guitarist and singer. He has a TON of great songs for you to discover and I hope I get to see it when you do. Give a listen to Songs She Sang In the Shower, If We Were Vampires or Elephant just for starters.

[@writerjohnmcnally]

I’ve seen him 14 times in concert. He puts on a hell of a show. You should check out the latest album by his wife Amanda Shires. Maybe the song “Hawk for the Dove.”

[@jonelstevens9246]

I’m discovered him in 2015 at Tim and 9. It will never be enough seeing him but seeing him as Red Rocks was epic! The venue and his excitement was off the charts.

[@writerjohnmcnally]

@@jonelstevens9246 I saw Isbell at Red Rocks in 2018. Great show. Perfect night. I saw Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Red Rocks last year. Another great show.

[@BRM202]

Her wrote this song for his wife Amanda Shires, who is a great artist in her own right.

[@jimcooper6268]

Percy Priest is a lake in Nashville. He said he ain't leaving until the dam breaks and carries the house away like a piece of driftwood...that's how much he loves her.

[@donnabannister793]

When the music alone just takes me there!!!❤️ And then the voice! and lyrics! WOW!!! Sooo beautiful... shoutout to Beantoes12 💯❤️❤️

[@Angie-W]

Beantoes thank you ❤️. It's beautiful. I have never heard this before and it's definitely going on my playlist. Amazing song.

[@maritamcnichol8849]

You should see this live. His wife is in that video. She is wonderful in her own right. Amanda Shires. Go down the rabbit hole. He is a beast.

[@jameade]

Thank you for this. Best songwriter alive. This particular song is one of the best love songs ever written. Please dive down the rabbit hole. They're all incredible.

[@mikerowe-roberts9336]

I love watching folks get moved by Mr Isbell. He’s a sorcial talent. Hope you continue to listen to him - your soul will be rewarded. I’m pretty sure the guitar is a slide guitar ❤

[@isabelhodgson4091]

My favourite Jason Isbell song. Just beautiful! 🎵 💖

[@josephkriegel3162]

What I love about you Asia and BJ is how much you so much appreciate great music. Love you guys so much such a blessing.

[@tomward6689]

It's two guitars. Jason and Sadler Vaden, one acoustic and one one an electric playing slide

[@junkyardheaven]

It is! Also, Children of children - the live version - is terrific, when Jason switches from acoustic to electric slide halfway through the song. The live Front Row Boston version has great audio...

[@lowriebean8140]

Love Jason 💕 He has so many good songs to choose from and his live performances are amazing. If We Were Vampires, Dress Blues, Songs That She Sang In The Shower, Alabama Pines, Live Oak………the list goes on!

[@Gashouse69]

Jason is a great lyricist. He paints a perfect picture in words.

[@jonelstevens9246]

I adore Jason Isbell I always wanted to play guitar, but he made me want write music. His lyrics are so honest and vulnerable! Jason Isbell is a lyrical genius!

[@tomward6689]

If you haven't reacted to "If We Were Vampires" by Jason, please do. But he has so many good songs. From these countryish style to more rock sounding.

[@lorilei1313]

Y’all gotta watch the live version on Austin City Limits. Have you really never listened to him before? Because you’re so lucky, I wish I could hear him again for the first time.

[@joshuahubrig2479]

I love that you guys are reacting to Jason’s music! He is a master wordsmith and I, for one, say that he is “the greatest songwriter of our generation”

[@mdbusaf]

I absolutely love you covered this song. It's so powerful.

[@ScapeGoat77]

So glad that you guys appreciated this song. I think everything that Jason has written is incredible.

[@AW11-e4h]

Glad you did some Jason🤘🤘

[@wolfhawk1999]

The whole album is fantastic. Heavily recommend giving it a listen, even if just on your own free time

[@rickvenatta8691]

White Mans World Live Oak Elephant Outfit Goddamn Lonely Love Dress Blues Streetlights... He has a huge catalogue to go through. Not a bad song anywhere. I drank a beer with him when he was still in Drive-By Truckers on 2005. Genuinely nice guy.

[@bryangoldman3869]

I feel like "Goddamn Lonely Love" get overlooked a lot.

[@GregIsAFan]

"Wow!" Couldn't agree more.

[@inexplicablyleft2729]

This is a great love song about his love for his wife, Amanda Shires, and his commitment to go sober for her and with her help. The most emotional song on the album, Elephant, is not so happy, and is about caring for someone as they die.

[@Gutslinger]

"And the old lover say 'I thought it'd be me who'd help him get home.' But home was a dream, One I never seen, Until you came along." Ugh, that verse is SOOO good.

[@gordonpearson7494]

love Asia's smile while listening to this. Watching someone enjoy something beautiful is a gift. thank you

[@mathewhutchins2539]

The guitar sound you’re referring to is called slide guitar. The guitarist placed a slide (usually metal or glass) on their fretting hand and uses it to slide across the notes.

[@shazza175]

Great reaction! Wait till you see this one live. Even better!

[@LeeCountyVaTruth]

He's one of the BEST modern country artists. Thank god you listened to his original song!

[@GrandmaMoysis]

My favorite song by Jason Isbell. Southeastern is a really great album!

[@josephkriegel3162]

Asia you really liked this song and it makes me smile. Jason is amazing. Listen to the Austin City Limits live version.

[@ih8music]

The folks here saying that Morgan Wallen's cover is better are absolutely insane.

[@brandonsimmons1695]

FACTs

[@markb1114]

Beautiful song and a great voice.

[@junkyardheaven]

Best songwriter around these days. Have seen JI & the 400 Unit 3 times in Oslo. Amid the best live sets I've ever attended. The band have played together for a long time - which one easy can tell...

[@timmythecat7478]

Great job you guys. Jason Isbell wrote this song for his wife I believe............... He is from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.............. Great review of a marvelous song writer and singer !!!!!!!!!! Thx. PS: Sometimes his wife accompanies him on her fiddle........

[@jeffsamuels3557]

check out Overseas from the Reunion record

[@angielofton6372]

I love this song and his version of it, written for his wife. Home Free does a great cover of this. Definitely will put you in your feelings.

[@josephkriegel3162]

That true smile from Asia, just makes my heart smile. Love you girl.

[@vesterbro17]

Jason Isbell is fantastic. Please, more of him!

[@rhsctj]

So glad yall got to Jason!

[@christianpackard8674]

OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY PLEASE OTHER REACTORS, FOLLOW THIS ARTIST AND REACT TO HIM LIKE THESE TWO. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@double00spy]

What you guys are talking about is a slide guitar. It is basically just an electric guitar played with a slide (cylinder) over one finger/ The sound is a lot like a steel guitar, since you get the entire range of sound, with the slide acting like a fret.

[@AWSAQEDS]

Love Jason, just one of they best around at the moment.

[@speydan7119]

Cast Iron Skillet... Given how upbeat and "simple" the melody is, It's easy to miss how much emotional depth there is in every line. He references southern/rural sensibility that carries layers of subtext. It - like so much of Isbell's work - is pure genius. I've listened to it hundreds of time, and I get choked up every time.

[@amyfrost9293]

He wrote this song to his wife that’s why it has heart and meaning and he can make you feel it. Definitely a sexy song 😊

[@stevenm.6886]

He’s the real deal, no one doing it better. Lyrics are just heart wrenching. If we were vampires is a deep one too !

[@jason_miller24]

So beautiful

[@InTherapyMusic]

He, like Tyler Childers, got sober in recent years and can hear references to it in his music and can hear it through the albums

[@kokokellitn1]

It was slide guitar, not pedal steel. Usually a glass tube run o er the strings of an electric guitar.

[@kevint2600]

I believe it's a slide on a gibson guitar, layered over an acoustic but I could be wrong, but... The whole Southeastern album is damn near perfect. Flying Over Water, Speed Trap Town are my particular favs.

[@worldwidewells7452]

"Cover me up cause I know you're enough to use me for good." I always told my wife that I think of her when I hear that because I don't know if anyone else can find the good to use. I love this record and Jason.

[@billfraser7616]

Just do the whole Southeastern album. Or all of his albums. He's the best thing going right now.

[@SJCoug1]

Other songs from Jason that I love are Alabama Pines, If It Takes a Lifetime, Something to Love, Letting You Go, and for higher energy - Hope The High Road.

[@amrak5028]

Art at it's finest.

[@amyfrost9293]

When you have time On your own time. Watch him sing this live at Austin City Limits. His wife is playing with him she plays the violin 🎻 ❤

[@Gutslinger]

So glad y'all reacted to this original version, since he wrote it for his wife and performs it with her. I think there's a cover by Morgan Wallen that some people listen to, and sometimes react to, but I think the original is best.

[@InTherapyMusic]

Him and his wife wrote this together after an argument😭 the vampires song everyone is referencing is both of them singing together, the live version will wreck you

[@bdmention]

He's a special artist. Nothing much more to say.

[@jonelstevens9246]

If I could only listen to one artist rest of my life, it would be Jason Isbell no contest.

[@Gutslinger]

I think the guitar part you were trying to figure out was slide guitar. It's just a regular guitar that someone plays with a glass cylinder on their finger, kinda like the guitar player in Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[@kdogusna77]

Dress Blues is a must listen.

[@LindaEll]

Check out his song 24 Frames. Excellent.

[@trentbobo4171]

Me and Jason are from the same little town of Greenhill Alabama. Ya'll gotta do more Jason. I believe he's the best lyricist of his generation.

[@joshuahubrig2479]

Oh, I have always said “Jason has an amazing ability to find the pain in your soul that you didn’t even know, existed, and make you feel every bit of it. “ Whatever you do, don’t listen to “If We Were Vampires”, “Cover Me Up”, “Dress Blues”, and “Elephant” all in a row… You will be at stopping pile on the floor by the time he had the last quote, somehow” in Elephant PS… discard people from your life who like the Morgan Wallen version of this song better, lol

[@tylerhackner9731]

Beautiful.

[@AsiaandBJ]

Very!

[@tomward6689]

If you want lyrics to make you cry "Elephant"

[@ralphwatts8993]

Excellent reaction!! May not get the hits y’all want, but thanks for doing it!! Love y’all!❤️🤘🏻

[@AsiaandBJ]

Our pleasure!

[@miconis123]

Home Free does a great cover of this

[@samkadi5443]

You have to listen to If we were Vampires next

[@chadwhedbee5581]

More Isbell! Here's some of his must-hear songs -Last of my kind 💯 -If we were vampires 💯 -If it takes a lifetime -If you insist -Something more than free -White beretta

[@telebender]

Monster songwriter, guitarist (ridiculously good - especially slide!) and performer. IMHO there's not many performers of this generation that can touch him or Chris Stapleton. His live shows are killer. Other standout tracks to check out include Live Oak, Speed Trap Town, 24 Frames, Children of Children, Cumberland Gap, Chaos & Clothes, White Man's World, If We Were Vampires.

[@hardticket123]

Jason Isbell does one of the best covers of Born in The USA I have ever heard. If you liked this one you'll probably like that.

[@jch928]

Yeah, you’re listening to one of three of the best songwriters in the world. Some have written songs for decades and will will never sniff this guys level, he’s a bit eccentric but truly is in a masterclass.

[@JTfromMN]

The sound i think u guys r talking about is from a Resinator guitar, but he also is playing the acoustic as well as the Steel & melding them together thru out the arrangement

[@DustinP1978]

its an electric guitar played with a glass slide on one finger

[@allenivester2547]

His song “if we were vampires”.. one of the best songs of love written

[@chrismalloy7960]

Isbell!! Hell yes! You obviously need to do “Elephant”!

[@tylerblanchard1082]

Need to do live versions

[@jasontaylor6005]

Your eyes will water on Elephant.

[@robbratcher4675]

one of the best songs ever written

[@nathaneley6486]

As a man that’s lived the lowest lows and the highest highs and had a woman keep her faith in me through both this song tears me up every time lol

[@jamescoleman5238]

As many others have said, if we were vampires. The best love song ever written

[@L.A55]

Great song..Home Free does a great cover

[@dannypatterson3385]

Brings me to tears. Jesus

[@keithleereynolds]

Listen to "If We Were Vampires" and "Songs That She Sang in the Shower."

[@irishjohn6900]

If you listen to your local N.P.R. (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO STATION) you will find more music like this