JEFFREY BROWN:

In his song "The Last of My Kind," Jason Isbell creates a character based on people he grew up around in rural Northern Alabama who fear how the world is changing.

JASON ISBELL, Singer-songwriter and Guitarist: A lot of people that I grew up with, went to school with in Alabama, and a lot of people in my family who told me growing up that cities were terrible places and anything outside of our little circle was scary and dangerous and frightening.

And I thought about the effect that had on people, when you start to believe that, and you let yourself be so afraid of other people and the outside world, that you never feel tethered, you never feel a connection with the rest of humanity.

So, I wrote that song based on that kind of fear.