More than anything, I miss the romanticism. We loved every kind of music, so that’s why there are so manyĭifferent styles, so many different insights in the songs that we wrote. Were still figuring out who we should be, what kind of music we loved Songs like “ Massachusetts” could be a country song. Gibb: We were inundated with American country music, and don’t forget: We went through that whole folk era as well. Made for a different mix? I don’t hear as much skiffle in what you were You guys didn’t spend your formative years in England, do you think that George Jones, Dolly…these people had a radical influence on us. Orbison and Elvis…these were country stars, but they were also rock We were an immigrant family who moved to Australia inġ958, and from then onwards, we heard so many records from America. I need to give you a little bit of inputĪbout our roots. I think you got your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a couple monthsĪfter I was born, so I’ve known your music my whole life. The fact that you cared about those songs means everything to “My jaw was on the floor,” Gibb tells him. “I was nervous, Barry,” Isbell says of their duet. Longer existed, I drifted into my own bliss, which is this kind of Real freak on old country music,” Gibb says. Which features rerecordings of his catalog with artists includingīrandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, and Alison Krauss. The song he and Gibb recorded, “Words of aįool,” appears on Gibb’s upcoming album, Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Isbell may be a rootsy songwriter from Alabama, but he’s been a Bee Said, ‘Well, I was singing with Barry Gibb. “She said, ‘That’s the best I’ve heard you sing,'” Isbell says. Last year, Jason Isbell came home to his wife and bandmate, Amanda Shires, and played her a duet he’d just recorded with Barry Gibb.
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