Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Weathervanes

 

Double LP

2023 release from acclaimed country rocker Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

"Weathervanes again affirms Isbell's place as an Alabama legend-right there next to (Nick) Saban." — Paste

For their 2023 release Weathervanes, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are tackling gun violence, women's rights, the opioid crisis and othe top-of-mind subjects for the world today, 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.

A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. 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.

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.

 

Side A

Death Wish

King of Oklahoma

Strawberry Woman

Middle of the Morning

Side B

Save the World

If You Insist

Cast Iron Skillet

Side C

When We Were Close

Volunteer

Vestavia Hills

Side D

White Beretta

This Ain't It

Miles

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