{"id":53094,"date":"2025-12-03T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/see-drive-by-truckers-reunite-with-jason-isbell-on-colbert\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:20:00","slug":"see-drive-by-truckers-reunite-with-jason-isbell-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/see-drive-by-truckers-reunite-with-jason-isbell-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"See Drive-By Truckers Reunite With Jason Isbell on &#8216;Colbert&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Band and former member come together to perform &#8220;Hell No, I Ain&#8217;t Happy&#8221; from 2003&#8217;s <em>Decoration Day<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/drive-by-truckers-jason-isbell-colbert-1235464431\/\">As promised<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/drive-by-truckers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_drive-by-truckers\" data-tag=\"drive-by-truckers\">Drive-By Truckers<\/a> reunited with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jason-isbell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-isbell\" data-tag=\"jason-isbell\">Jason Isbell<\/a> \u201cofficially\u201d for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show\" data-tag=\"late-show\">Late Show<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe band and their former member delivered \u201cHell No, I Ain\u2019t Happy,\u201d a track off their 2003 album <em>Decoration Day<\/em>, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jason-isbell-drive-by-truckers-outfit-live-version-1235447667\/\">received a \u201cDefinitive\u201d reissue<\/a> stocked with bonus tracks, including a new remix and a 2022 live recording.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe have always remained friends with Jason, and honestly, he and I are closer now than ever,\u201d Drive-By Truckers\u2019 Patterson Hood previously said of the <em>Late Show<\/em> performance in a statement. \u201cI consider\u00a0<em>Decoration Day<\/em>\u00a0to be our masterpiece, and he was such an integral part of that album that it\u2019s wonderful that he\u2019s able to join us in celebrating this release.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Hell No, I Ain&#039;t Happy&quot; - Drive-By Truckers with Jason Isbell (LIVE on The Late Show)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7n3s5_M570?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile the Colbert performance was billed as the first time that the band and Isbell have officially reunited, the group and their former guitarist have infrequently come together onstage over the past two decades since Isbell\u2019s exit in 2007: \u00a0In 2017, Isbell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/see-jason-isbell-reunite-with-drive-by-truckers-onstage-in-nashville-108803\/\">popped onstage<\/a>\u00a0for a song when the band played Nashville. More recently, Isbell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americanahighways.org\/2021\/10\/13\/show-review-shoalsfest-2021\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">joined<\/a>\u00a0the Drive-By Truckers in 2021 for an impromptu sit-in at his own Shoals Fest in Alabama, playing guitar on \u201cHeathens\u201d and singing \u201cThe Day John Henry Died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Isbell and the Truckers might come together again in the future, don\u2019t expect a full-on reunion in the wake of the <em>Decoration Day<\/em> reissue, as Isbell has already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/jason-isbell-and-the-400-unit-announce-2026-tour-1235455457\/\">announced 2026 tour dates<\/a>\u00a0with his 400 Unit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/drive-by-truckers-reunite-jason-isbell-colbert-1235476607\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band and former member come together to perform &#8220;Hell No, I Ain&#8217;t Happy&#8221; from 2003&#8217;s Decoration Day As promised, Drive-By Truckers reunited with Jason&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}