Jason Isbell continued musical hot streak in 2020, entertaining those at home
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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With the May release of latest album “Reunions,”Jason Isbell put the final corner on one of music’s best tetralogies from the last 10 years. And possibly, THE best.
The record found Isbell, his band The 400 Unit and producer Dave Cobb streamlining Isbell’s folk/rock sound. His sterling songwriting remained the center. The “Reunions” songs stretched from contemplative to kicking. Highlights include sobriety anthem “It Gets Easier,” jazz-smitten “Running With Our Eyes Closed,” Page/Plant channeling “Dreamsicle,” sanctified “River” and dad-daughter ge
December 11, 2020
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Prometheus “Our Green New Deal,” read the Labour Party’s 2019 manifesto, “aims to achieve the substantial majority of our emissions reductions by 2030 in a way that is evidence-based, just and that delivers an economy that serves the interests of the many, not the few.”[1] This was a central pillar of the election platform that suffered an historic defeat last December. As the ecological crisis continues unabated, the Green New Deal has solidified its place as the programmatic response among the left. Its core ideas have reappeared in the immediate economic crisis in the guise of a ‘green recovery’ and calls to ‘build back better’. This article argues that, from the perspective of Marxist ecology, the apparent path between a Green New Deal and an ecosocialism is confronted with several contradictions and strategic problems.