Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Southeastern Records
Release: 2023
Release date: June 9, 2023
New album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, tackling issues such as gun violence, the opioid crisis, and women’s rights all through Isbell’s signature songwriting lens.
‘Weathervanes’ is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive.
This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equalling four once you reach a certain age – and carry a certain amount of scars.
Jason Isbell has established himself as one of the most respected and celebrated songwriters of his generation. The North Alabama native possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, and turning them into beautiful poetry through song. Isbell sings of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty.
The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers.
Website: https://www.jasonisbell.com/
Tracks:
01. Death Wish
02. King of Oklahoma
03. Strawberry Woman
04. Middle of the Morning
05. Save the World
06. If You Insist
07. Cast Iron Skillet
08. When We Were Close
09. Volunteer
10. Vestavia Hills
11. White Beretta
12. This Ain’t It
13. Miles