{"id":62303,"date":"2026-04-13T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/watch-jason-isbell-join-hayley-williams-for-cover-me-up-performance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:46:41","slug":"watch-jason-isbell-join-hayley-williams-for-cover-me-up-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/watch-jason-isbell-join-hayley-williams-for-cover-me-up-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jason Isbell Join Hayley Williams for &#8216;Cover Me Up&#8217; Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Isbell originally released the emotional tune as part of his 2013 album <em>Southeastern<\/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\/t\/hayley-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hayley-williams\" data-tag=\"hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> enlisted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jason-isbell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-isbell\" data-tag=\"jason-isbell\">Jason Isbell<\/a> for a performance of his 2013 song \u201cCover Me Up\u201d at New York\u2019s Hammerstein Ballroom on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIsbell joined Williams on stage to showcase the emotive, bluesy track, off his album <em>Southeastern<\/em>.  Isbell played acoustic while Williams took on the vocals, with Isbell later joining her on the chorus. \u201cThis is a dream come true,\u201d Williams told Isbell. \u201cThanks for doing it.\u201d<\/p>\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=\"Cover me up Jason isbell and Hayley williams\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iTmnQqjg4rQ?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\tIsbell originally wrote \u201cCover Me Up\u201d about getting sober and his love for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/amanda-shires-jason-isbell-divorce-interview-1235433216\/\">ex-wife Amanda Shires<\/a>. \u201cThat was a hard one for me to even get through without breaking down the first time, because that one is really personal,\u201d Isbell <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/06\/10\/190372187\/jason-isbell-a-southeastern-songwriters-path-to-sobriety\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>NPR<\/em><\/a> in 2013.. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, \u2018This is how much I love you,\u2019 you know? It\u2019s scary to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song was notably covered by Morgan Wallen as part of his 2020 LP, <em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>. Following Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/morgan-wallen-exile-1123319\/\">industry-wide rebuke<\/a>\u00a0for using a racial slur in 2021, Isbell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/jason-isbell-morgan-wallen-cover-me-up-donation-1126630\/\">announced<\/a> that he would be donating the money he earned from Wallen\u2019s recording to the NAACP.<\/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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA portion of this money goes to me, since I wrote \u2018Cover Me Up,\u2019\u201d Isbell tweeted. \u201cI\u2019ve decided to donate everything I\u2019ve made so far from [Wallen\u2019s] album to the Nashville chapter of the NAACP. Thanks for helping out a good cause, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilliams is currently out on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-first-ever-solo-tour-dates-1235462122\/\">first solo tour<\/a> in support of her album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/hayley-williams-ego-death-at-a-bachelorette-party-review-1235417437\/\">Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party<\/a><\/em>. She played three nights at Hammerstein Ballroom and will head to Baltimore on Tuesday. The tour continues through mid-May, when it concludes with three shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. She will continue the trek in Europe and the U.K. in June. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-jason-isbell-cover-me-up-live-performance-1235545719\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isbell originally released the emotional tune as part of his 2013 album Southeastern Hayley Williams enlisted Jason Isbell for a performance of his 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62303","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\/62303","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=62303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}