Jason Isbell finished recording Southeastern two days before his wedding to fiddle player Amanda Shires. The album's opening track finds him asking Shires to cover him with love. It's cold in this house and I ain't going out to chop wood So cover me up and know you're enough To use me for good
Amanda Shires is also the woman who got Isbell sober. Put your faith to the test when I tore off your dress In Richmond on high But I sobered up and I swore off that stuff Forever this time Isbell had discussed getting sober extensively but it was only in February 2012, when Amanda Shires initiated an intervention with a couple of others that he gave up booze. Isbell's last night drinking before getting sober was spent in Richmond, Virginia; he got trashed on moonshine after finishing a private show.
This won the Song Of The Year award at the 2014 Americana Music Awards.
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