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- Summary: The first full-length solo release from singer-songwriter Jason Isbell since 2015's Something More Than Free was recorded over five days with only his acoustic guitar and his vocals.
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- Record Label: Southeastern Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 3, 2025Foxes In The Snow – a shoo-in for Isbell’s seventh Grammy – has already set the bar for best Americana album of the year. [Apr 2025, p.84]
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Mar 7, 2025It sounds as glorious as it is spare. Folk music: it’s effing back, folks.
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UncutMar 3, 2025These songs should reach and endure far beyond their context, as they're extraordinary even by Isbell's standards. [Apr 2025, p.31]
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Mar 3, 2025He remains one of the few songwriters who can capture the indelible marks we leave on one another ("Good While It Lasted") with impressive verisimilitude, plumbing the depths of human emotion in a mere quatrain. Even at his most didactic ("Don't Be Tough"), he comes across as an old friend gently leading the way.
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Mar 5, 2025The album features only Isbell and one 85-year-old acoustic guitar, with no percussion or accoutrements of any sort, resulting in his most starkly realized effort to date.
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Mar 3, 2025Foxes in the Snow is a broad collection of songs played alone on his acoustic 1940 Martin antique guitar, seemingly without a central theme. Few artists can get away with such a simple approach, but Isbell has earned that status. The question then is whether there will be memorable songs like “Cover Me Up” or “Elephant” that define Southeastern. Only time will tell whether they are here.
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Mar 3, 2025A few lyrics on the album are so unguarded, so vulnerable, and so candid that they reinforce Isbell's songwriting bravery ("My own behavior was a shock to me," he sings in "Eileen"). Others, for the very same reasons, might make you cringe. .... This new batch, in all their diaristic voice, feel destined to stay stuck in their moment.