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Apr 3
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Jason Isbell On Love, Heartbreak & Songw...

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Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album, Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very specific time where I was going through a lot of changes," he says.

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