He joined the band for the show and then departed on tour with the band for the next six years. As a result, Isbell got a rapid field promotion onto the stage. A member of the Drive-By Truckers, a band that had returned to its home in the Shoals to play a breakthrough house concert for Spin magazine, failed to show up for the gig. Then, at the age of 22, his moment arrived. By his early 20s, he returned to his home in the Shoals of Alabama, an obscure corner of the country that produced some of the greatest R&B in the universe, where he found work writing for FAME Studios. Playing local bars before he was even a teenager, and the Grand Ole Opry by 16, he went off to college but, famously, never completed his degree for want of a single required health studies class. He would sit alone in his bedroom for days on end, isolated and insulated from his parents' arguing, tearing through the classics. He had honed his skills as a songwriter and guitar player since he started playing the mandolin back when his hands were too small to wrap around a guitar neck. Luck favors the prepared, as they say, and young Jason Isbell was ready.
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