Songfacts®:

• This song serves as a tribute to the city of Athens, Georgia, home to Isbell's former band, the Drive-By Truckers. Sound-wise, the track was inspired by Athens' most famous sons, the rock band R.E.M. "Twenty-four frames roll past the camera every second during a movie," Isbell explained to Rolling Stone Country. "I've seen some stuff that's faster, but [it] always looks like a British TV show. That's what the song is called, and I think it's really interesting - it kind of sounds like the way indie rock sounded when I was 15."
• The song features Isbell's wife, singer-songwriter/fiddler Amanda Shires, contributing harmony vocals.
• This won for Best American Roots Song at the Grammy Awards in 2016.
• "24 Frames" is built around shimmering electric guitar lines that give the song a warm, luminous texture even as the lyrics wrestle with mortality and the fragility of everyday life. The sparkling slide-guitar passages became one of the track's defining sonic features.
  
  Jason Isbell explained to The Sun how the layered sound came from a surprisingly simple recording trick: "I may have doubled up two exact same slide-guitar parts on that. It's the old George Harrison trick from 'My Sweet Lord' and it works every f---ing time."