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Jason Isbell, welcome to Rockford
Hi Jason. I’d like to welcome you to Rockford and I feel uniquely qualified to do so. My name is Beth Wagner Townsend and I’m a JI400 superfan, a Rockford lifer, and I love the Coronado Theatre so much it’s become kind of a job. According to Setlist.fm, I’ve seen you live eleven times since…
i’m trying to tell you something ’bout my life
Knoxville, Newton, and being Googled by my own kid. I’m a little infamous for my unhinged music playlists. It’s less about music and more about data organization and my brain’s need to group related things. It’s not like I ever queue up and listen to my “songs that reference the Works Progress Administration” playlist or…
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everybody’s clapping on the one and the three
Day 9: Golden, Colorado and Morrison, Colorado Why do I always get the glass shaped like this no matter what I order? This one was called THE DUKES OF HAZZARD.Zach Baby, once they pour green chili all over it, it’s no longer a handheld burrito.Me to Zach We drove to Golden today because we loved…
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gotta spend your whole life trying
The start of day/end of day nature of what I’m doing here gets a little blurry when one day ends and another starts at 5am at Pete’s Kitchen. I mean sometimes you gotta just draw a line I guess. Zach doesn’t want to talk about it. We went to Casa Bonita, which is closed due…
you know the kind where you take a turn and you don’t know why
Day 5: Casper, Wyoming to Cheyenne, Wyoming Life-changing breakfast at Sherrie’s. May move to Casper to be close to Sherrie. America, I am begging you to make the “smother your plate in green chili” option a national belief system. Zach spent 2 hours with a Sam Elliott type who fitted and shaped two hats for…
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love is real not fade away
Day 1: Rockford, IL to Mason City, Iowa The window from our living room into the bathroom at the Quality Inn in Mason City, Iowa. Day 2: Mason City, Iowa to Sioux Falls, South Dakota “it must have been real weird growing up with a statue of yourself right outside your childhood home” – ZT…