Here We Rest is the album Jason Isbell fans have been waiting for since the talented songwriter and guitarist left the Drive-By Truckers in 2007 after six years and three albums with the revered Southern rockers. Isbell’s previous solo efforts, Sirens of the Ditch and Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, both had excellent moments, but neither was as consistent or cohesive as this new set.
Isbell spent much of 2010 at his northern Alabama home rather than working a nonstop tour schedule, and as a result, Here We Rest is full of evocative characters and a sense of place that he would not have been able to evoke without that time spent contemplating “normal” life.
Bronco, Painting Pictures of a Perfect Life
The second full-length release from Salt Lake City’s Bronco is a 14-track (including three instrumental interludes) set of addictive country-rock from singer/songwriter Tyler Anderson and Co., and its songs full of characters living on society’s margins, around “boarded-up houses and abandoned buildings.”
