Jason Isbell says that the desire to be honest and fair is his compass. “One day I decided: ‘This is what I’m going to claim as the purpose for why I’m here,’” he says. “I think it’s to leave the place a little bit better than I found it, and to experience all the things that I can experience.” This year, Isbell is certainly experiencing plenty: he’s releasing two albums, has a role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and is the subject of an HBO documentary. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Isbell, 44, broke onto the music scene with the rock band Drive-By Truckers in 2001 and went solo in 2007.