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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. You and Amanda have been open about the parental balancing act, and how it’s been a learning experience as you both follow your respective musical paths. I got to stay home with the toddler more than I did the year before. I was able to work on other things like Josh’s record, things that involved songwriting or production, and that was fun. I played 80 shows or something, but it wasn’t like, over the top as far as traveling.
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I’m good! I’ve actually had a lot of time at home, because a lot of those things didn’t involve traditional touring, so I didn’t have to do an exorbitant amount of traveling this year. I’m looking at your list of 2018 projects, and it's a lot - especially considering how this was an "off" year that didn't include a new studio album. She started being able to sound out complete words, so that was by far my proudest moment.”īelow, Isbell reflects on parenting, speaking out for causes he believes in, championing Shires, texting with Bradley Cooper and more. “She just turned 3 in September, and she’s really smart.
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“My daughter read a couple of words, and that without question was the proudest that I was all year,” he answers when asked about his biggest accomplishment of the past twelve months. Jason Isbell’s 2018 included two wins at the Grammys back in February a significant songwriting credit on the soundtrack for A Star is Born the October release of his live album, Live From the Ryman a guest spot playing guitar on wife and fellow roots rocker Amanda Shires’ latest album, To the Sunset a chance to produce Josh Ritter’s forthcoming full-length and ample time at home in Nashville.īut the highlight of his year can be summed up with a simple, three-letter word scrawled by his three-year-old daughter, Mercy: Dad. Vincent, Anne-Marie, Kali Uchis, Dan + Shay, Swae Lee, Lauv, Old Dominion, Mitski and Sofi Tukker. He tells Billboard about his personal highlights from the year.Īs 2018 winds down, Billboard is asking some of the artists who helped define the year in music to look back on their accomplishments, favorite memories and pop-culture obsessions from the past 12 months.