Jason Isbell was still mulling over his setlist two hours before the doors opened at the Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Ala. on Tuesday night (March 3), but he knew one song was a given. “Alabama Pines,” from 2011’s Here We Rest, offers him familiar comfort behind the wheel in his home state: he strums an acoustic guitar and sings of meandering drives flanked by longleaf pine trees, avoiding the highways around the Talladega Raceway at the height of NASCAR season, and namechecks the only liquor store open on Sunday between Birmingham and his hometown of Green Hill.
It’s a crowd-pleaser and frequently met with sing-alongs, but it was especially pleasing to this crowd, who softly sang along with every word to every song before it, too. “It’s
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