JASON ISBELL GIVES HIS OPINION ON JASON ALDEAN'S SONG ON MSNBC

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Jason Isbell was on yesterday's "Morning Joe" program on MSNBC - talking about a variety of things, including his new album "Weathervanes," his advocacy for gun control - and his opinions on Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town." 

Isbell has already weighed in - on Twitter, where he dragged Aldean for singing other people's songs, challenging him to write his next song, because "That’s what we try in my small town" But on the MSNBC program, Isbell expanded on his take on Aldean's controversial song.

"Well, I think in Jason Aldean's song...what it appears to me that's happening is these sort of unfounded fears that small-town Americans have, it's being capitalized on. So you're drumming up this fear that there's gonna be riots in the streets, and people burning the flag, and people carjacking and, "the knockout game" - I don't know how "the knockout game" wound up in this song...this is very clearly a debunked racist myth that people just walk up and punch other people on the sidewalk...but pretty much all these things point to a very specific group of people as the perpetrator, and they say 'you should be afraid of these people and let me sell you something while you're afraid of these people'..."  Isbell also added that, "A lot of people are missing the fact that all the instances in Jason Aldean's song are just paranoia...country music should be three chords and the truth - and that's not the truth." See the entire interview here. 

Source: MSNBC