“He should have never left the Drive By Truckers. Dumbest thing he ever did!”
This is one of many accusations from Clyde Isbell, the rarely talked-about identical twin brother of Americana star Jason Isbell, and co-frontman of a local Allman Brothers cover band in Alabama. Saving Country Music tracked down Clyde in a trailer park outside of Muscle Shoals to ask him about his brother’s recent success, and attempt to determine why the lives of the once close siblings have forked in such separate directions. Clyde is currently barred from leaving the state due to probationary stipulations, and Jason just walked away with a couple of Grammy Awards two weeks ago for his latest record Something More Than Free.
“All those awards shows are rigged anyway. We know that,” says Clyde, taking a pull directly off a bottle of Jack Daniels as we sit and chat on a stained couch with sunken cushions...
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
