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Jason Isbell Reimagines the Divorce Album
His split from Amanda Shires marked the end of a potent redemption arc. Foxes in the Snow imagines a new path.
That makes Isbell’s latest effort, Foxes in the Snow, a sort of inevitability: A respected songwriter and well-known wife guy returns to the bare essentials of his craft, presenting his first solo acoustic album following the implosion of a beloved celebrity marriage. After candidly discussing marital strife as a past-tense struggle during the making of 2020’s Reunions, he has commented on the split only sparingly since last year’s news, roundly denying rumors of an affair and offering some abstract ruminations about how the divorce might impact his songwriting. There, too, artists have approached the subject in a variety of ways: everything from Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man looking back to simpler days as a newly single rockstar to Richard and Linda Thompson’s ragged Shoot Out The Lights chronicling their marriage crumbling as they were making that very album.
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