We’re trying to start a fashion movement. She started making all the guys in her band wear women rock ‘n’ roll shirts. Anytime I’m wearing a rock ‘n’ roll shirt, it’s going to be from a female artist or band.
I’m starting to wear a bunch of Pretenders and Amy Winehouse shirts. There are so many little places in the business where it’s not balanced. Women aren’t that way: Women buy Jason Isbell shirts just like the guys do. It occurred to us at some point that guys will wear a shirt with another guy’s name on it, but they won’t necessarily wear a shirt that has a female artist’s name on it. We like to sit down and see how we can improve at certain points in our career, because we both own our own publishing and our own labels. At some point throughout the year, we were comparing the amount of money we made in shows compared to the amount of money we made off of album sales compared to the amount of money we made at the merch table and streams and radio and publishing - all this.
I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that she’s a woman. Her record is great, and the songs are great, and I still don’t feel like she gets the respect she deserves from the music world. How was it to watch Amanda shine in 2018? Your cave brain doesn’t necessarily understand nanny cams and childcare and cars and airplanes, so it’s kind of a process for us, of teaching each other that it’s okay to work and do what you need to do - everything’s going to be taken care of. It’s a process that’s sort of evolving, really, as much as we can do to teach each other that being happy and satisfied, fulfilled parents is going to set the best example for the child. She’s programmed somewhere in the old part of her head to think for a fleeting second every five minutes that she’s doing something wrong.
When I’m away from our daughter, I miss her, and I miss being around her, but I don’t have an ancient part of my caveman brain that tells me that if I’m outside of the cave, something’s going to eat the baby. I wound up hanging out with the kid quite a bit myself. “There were more things to develop in the ending of that version.”įor Isbell to take part in Cooper’s version (the fourth iteration of the story first told in 1937, then again in 1954), the ending “had to be handled correctly for me to want to be involved.You know, it went really well. “You felt like they were just trying to get it over with,” Isbell said. His main gripe with that iteration was its ending, which (spoiler alert) shows Kristofferson’s character killed in a car accident after speeding dangerously fast. The Grammy Award–winning country singer was particularly hesitant because he wasn’t a fan of the 1976 version of the film, which features Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. “At first I wasn’t into it because I said, uh, it’s a remake of A Star Is Born - we’ve got enough of those,” Isbell told BuzzFeed News. When musician Jason Isbell was approached to write a song for the soundtrack to actor-director Bradley Cooper’s new remake of A Star Is Born, the veteran singer-songwriter had some reservations.