In June, two days after a racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston reignited a still-raging debate about South Carolina's flying of the confederate flag over its Capitol building. Isbell couldn't have foreseen any of that when he decided to name his new album Something More Than Free, but that title resonates nonetheless — not only as a testament to the emotional baggage of which Isbell sings, but also as an acknowledgement that the concept of freedom, however it may be defined or distorted, is never far from a Southern mind.
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In June, two days after a racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston reignited a still-raging debate about South Carolina's flying of the confederate flag over its Capitol building. Isbell couldn't have foreseen any of that when he decided to name his new album Something More Than Free, but that title resonates nonetheless — not only as a testament to the emotional baggage of which Isbell sings, but also as an acknowledgement that the concept of freedom, however it may be defined or distorted, is never far from a Southern mind.
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