Jason Isbell's "Here We Rest" Trivia Quiz

Answer: false

"Here We Rest" is Jason Isbell's third full-length album and his second with the 400 Unit. It was released in 2011, about two years after "Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit," which was his first album with the band. On his first solo album, "Sirens of the Ditch," which was released in 2007, Isbell was accompanied by Patterson Hood, a member of Isbell's former band, the Drive By Truckers.

Answer: Jimbo Hart

Amanda Shires supplies fiddle and vocals and Chad Gamble is on drums. Derry deBorja plays keyboards, while Jason Isbell supplies lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, piano, and organ. Browan Lollar also plays lead and rhythm guitar on the album.

Answer: oysters

The song is about a soldier who has returned home after serving his tour of duty. He's "been eating like I'm out on bail / collard greens and chicken wings, oysters by the pail." The song's peppy beat and surface optimism belies the hints of masked pain. The narrator says he's taught himself "to tolerate the pain" and promises not to dwell on the horrors he might have seen in war, or at least to pretend not to:

"I promise not to bore you with my stories
I promise not to scare you with my tears
I never would exaggerate the glory
I'll seem so satisfied here."

Answer: Sons of Anarchy

"Sons of Anarchy" premiered on FX in September of 2008. Isbell's song "Go it Alone" appeared in season 2, episode 4, "Booster." The song opens:

"Are you lonely tonight?
Are you out on the road?
I'm headed home to go it alone again.
Are you dreaming out loud?
Scared of the crowds?
I'm headed home to go it alone again."

Answer: Wayne's

"If we pass through on a Sunday, better make a stop at Wayne's.
It's the only open liquor store north, and I can't stand the pain
of being by myself without a little help
on a Sunday afternoon."

The song paints a picture of loneliness, isolation, and stagnation, a world where the singer hardly even knows his name anymore: "When no one calls it out, it kinda vanishes away." He wants to escape back home "through those Alabama pines."

Answer: The parking lot's so loud and bright

"I can't get to sleep at night. The parking lot's so loud and bright.
The A.C. hasn't worked in twenty years.
Probably never made a single person cold,
but I can't say the same for me. I've done it many times."

For some non-disclosed reason, which may involve the woman he needed "like a dream needs gasoline," the narrator of this song has been "stuck here in this town, if you could call it that, for about a year or two."

Answer: Castles Made of Sand

"If there's one thing I can't stand
It's this bar and this cover band
Trying to fake their way through 'Castles Made of Sand'.
That's one thing I can't stand."

"Castles Made of Sand" was recorded on the second album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, which was released in 1967. The song is based on Jimi Hendrix's own childhood.

Dwight Garner of "The New York Times" calls "Codeine" one of Isbell's "finest songs, a kind of fiddle-strewn anti-waltz."

Answer: break

The song continues:

"She should be home by now but she ain't.
I should've gone by now but I cain't.
One of my friends has taken her in and given her codeine."

"Codeine" is one of several of Jason Isbell's songs that mentions a prescription drug (klonopin and benzodiazepine make appearances elsewhere). When Dwight Garner of "The New York Times" asked Isbell why such drugs keep making appearances in his songs, he answered, "I think I just love the sound those words make. Prescription drugs have never been seductive to me, but they put some realism in a song."

Answer: Daisy Mae

The song contains the lyrics:

"You and I are charged with this, to hold the essence of a kiss
To take these broken plans and make them rhyme.
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae this hasn't been your day,
Hasn't been your day.
Here, he never touched you,
Inside this house he never called your name.
So stay where I can see you, girl. We both know the outside world
Has changed and it will never be the same."

This gut-wrenching song is about a woman who experienced sexual abuse in childhood and still carries the emotional scars. Jason Isbell told "PopMatters": "I got to a point, I guess when I was probably 30, or 31 years old, where it occurred to me almost everyone you meet was sexually abused as a kid, almost everybody, by someone. . . the percentages are just staggering. . . Some people like to discuss those things, maybe they don't want to start the conversation themselves, but sometimes" songs like Daisy Mae can "help folks to relate and get those things out of their system a little bit."

Jason Isbell also tackles the issue of sexual abuse in his song "Yvette" on "Southeastern."

Answer: Alabama Pines

The Americana Music and Honors Awards has been held annually since 2002 and was first broadcast live in 2012. Members of the Americana Music Association vote on the six competitive awards, including Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Duo/Group of the Year, Instrumentalist of the Year, and Emerging Artist of the Year. Isbell would go on to win Album of the Year for "Southeastern" in 2014, for "Something More than Free" in 2016, and for "The Nashville Sound" in 2018.

In 2012, however, he won for Song of the Year for "Alabama Pines." His songs "Cover Me Up," "24 Frames," and "If We Were Vampires" would go on to win Song of the Year in 2014, 2016, and 2018 respectively.