In the studio, Isbell tries to be as chill with his band as he is on stage but he’s a perfectionist with something very particular to say, and sometimes he struggles to be outwardly nice to everyone while inside he’s beating himself up. Shot mostly during the recording sessions for the 2020 album “Reunions” - and also during the early months of the pandemic, which hit just as the record came out - the film shows how tough it can be to maintain a good guy persona when sometimes you’re bickering with your wife or getting frustrated by creative blocks. Isbell and his family are productive and respected parts of the Nashville community - and of the modern-rock and country music scenes.īut in the at-times painfully intimate documentary “Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed,” director Sam Jones captures the toll that being exemplary takes. Thanks to his lively social media presence, his fans have come to appreciate his humor and his tastes and they also know all about how he overcame drug and alcohol abuse with the help of his wife and collaborator Amanda Shires and their young daughter. He runs his own label - which means he actually makes money off his records. He plays to big crowds all over the world. ‘Jason Isbell: Running with Our Eyes Closed’įrom the outside, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell looks to be a phenomenal success.
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