The Money Shot: Jason Isbell (DBT)

The DBT guitarist talks about his upcoming solo record...

The record's title, "Sirens of the Ditch," is a Sappho reference to frogs, which Isbell collects. Not the real amphibians, he said, but their counterparts in wood, marble and other materials. "Actual frogs themselves, they're kind of unassuming," Isbell said in a telephone interview on his way home from the Birmingham, Ala. airport. "The smallest frogs can make the biggest noise."