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Published: 2023/11/08

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Add Dates to North American Tour

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have expanded their upcoming North American tour for 2024, adding a plethora of additional tour dates. This headlining journey is now scheduled to span from Jan. 17 through May 3, followed by appearances as the opening act for Zach Bryan at U.S. stadiums next summer.

A promotional photo released alongside the announcement confirms that bassist Anna Butterss will remain a vital part of the 2024 tour. The rest of the lineup for Isbell’s band consists of familiar faces, including guitarist Sadler Vaden, keyboardist Derry DeBorja, and drummer Chad Gamble, as well as the more recent addition, multi-instrumentalist Will Johnson.

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit will kick off their extensive tour with performances in Springfield, Mo., followed by a show in Lawrence, Kan., on Jan. 18. The newly announced dates will take place in February and include stops in Wilmington, N.C.; Baltimore, Md.; Williamsport, Pa., Portland, Maine, Rochester, N.Y. and Chicago.

The band will continue to perform into March, starting with a two-night engagement at Chicago’s The Salt Shed on March 1, followed by a two-night stand at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, Minn. Additional March dates have been confirmed in Duluth, Minn., Des Moines, Iowa, Fort Wayne, Ind., Pittsburgh, Evansville, Indi. and Atlanta, with The Tabernacle hosting the band from March 28 to 31. A performance in La Vista, Neb., on May 1 has also been added to the tour schedule.

Select shows on the tour will feature opening acts such as Palehound, Joan Shelley, Tommy Prine, Autumn Nicholas, and Jobi Riccio.

Read Relix ‘s cover story with Jason Isbell here .

Tickets for these newly announced Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 2024 tour dates will be available for purchase starting this Friday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. local time. Learn more and find tickets here .

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Announce New 2023 Tour Dates

Jason Isbell and his band, the 400 Unit, will hit the road again in the new year. Earlier today (Sept. 27), the acclaimed outfit announced a set of tour dates that begin in January 2023.

The upcoming run will include a stop in some smaller cities across the U.S., including Evansville, Ind., Saginaw, Mich. and Greensboro, N.C. Isbell will wrap up his stint of shows with a performance in Ashland, Ky. on Feb. 3. Influential West African duo Peter One has been tapped as Isbell's opening act for the entire tour.

Tickets for Isbell's first four Florida shows will go on sale Oct. 7, beginning at 10 AM local time. All other dates will become available this Friday (Sept. 30) at 10 AM local time. You can find additional ticketing information at Jason Isbell's  official website .

Jason Isbell's 2023 Tour Dates:

Jan. 19 - Orlando, Fla. @ Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 20 - Clearwater, Fla. @ Ruth Eckerd Hall Jan. 21 - Hollywood, Fla. @ Hard Rock Live Jan. 23 - Fort Myers, Fla. @ Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall Jan. 25 - Mobile, Ala. @ Saenger Theatre Jan. 27 - Evansville, Ind. @ Victory Theatre Jan. 28 - Shipshewana, Ind. @ Blue Gate Theatre Jan. 31 - Nashville, Ind. @ Temple Theatre Feb. 1 - Greensboro, N.C. @ Brown County Music Center Feb. 2 - Richmond, Ky. @ Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 3 - Ashland, Ky. @ EKU Center for the Arts

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Add 2024 Tour Dates

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have announced a new batch of 2024 tour dates.

The band will play shows in the Midwest, Northeast, and South beginning January 17th at Shrine Mosque in Springfield, MO. After a pair of previously announced co-headlining shows with The Turnpike  Troubadours , the tour will pick back up in February with a stretch of dates featuring support from  Palehound , including two-night runs at The Salt Shed in Chicago (2/29–3/1) and Palace Theatre in St. Paul, MN (3/2–3/3).

Related: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Perform “When We Were Close” On ‘Kimmel’ [Watch]

The run of newly added shows culminates with four nights at Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA with support from Palehound (3/28), Tommy Prine (3/29), Kyshona (3/30), and Autumn Nicholas (3/31), plus an additional show in La Vista, NE on May 1st with Jobi Riccio . Click below to view a full list of all the newly added shows.

Tickets for the new Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit tour dates will go on sale on Friday, November 10th at 10 a.m. local time. The band will also team up with Zach Bryan for some stadium shows as part of Bryan’s The Quittin Time Tour . For a list of all upcoming shows and to purchase tickets, visit the band’s website .

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit New 2024 Tour Dates: (On sale 11/10)

Jan 17: Springfield, MO – Shrine Mosque Jan 18: Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall Feb 19: Wilmington, NC – Wilson Center + Feb 20: Baltimore, MD – The Lyric + Feb 21: Williamsport, PA – Community Arts Center + Feb 26: Portland, ME – State Theatre + Feb 27: Rochester, NY – Kodak Center + Feb 29: Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed + March 1: Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed + March 2: St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre + March 3: St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre + March 5: Duluth, MN – DECC Symphony Hall + March 6: Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom + March 8: Fort Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre + March 9: Pittsburgh, PA – Benedum Center for the Performing Arts + March 10: Evansville, IN – Victory Theatre ^ March 28: Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle ^ March 29: Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle = March 30: Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle ~ March 31: Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle & May 1: La Vista, NE – The Astro # + w/ Palehound ^ w/ Joan Shelley = w/ Tommy Prine ~ w/ Kyshona Music & w/ Autumn Nicholas # w/ Jobi Riccio

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit: 2022 Tour [Concert Review]

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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit w/ Adia Victoria :  Palace Theatre; Columbus, OH; Thursday, January 27, 2022

For live music fans, one of the biggest challenges of the on-going pandemic has been the shut-down of concerts, but Jason Isbell repeatedly told the two-thirds full crowd in Columbus’ Palace Theatre Thursday night that he and his band, the 400 Unit, missed playing for an audience just as much as we did. But this concert had originally been scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 16, and was postponed when it was reported that he had caught a breakthrough infection with the virus. And while the audience had to show proof of vaccination and masks were required, Isbell said he was happy to be playing again for his fans.

After that quick introduction, Isbell and his fine backing band, including his wife Amanda Shires on fiddle, launched into the opening track of the 2022 release, Reunions , “What Have I Done to Help,” with most of the band singing the vocal harmonies. Isbell started the song on acoustic guitar, but as the arrangement stretched out, with a brief bass solo by Jimbo Hart followed by a turn by Shires on violin, during which the singer/songwriter switched to a Gibson SG and took a smart melodic slides solo. They moved quickly into the big electric power chords that open “Hope the High Road,” with second guitarist Sadler Vaden emphasizing the rock song staples with Pete Townshend windmills, indicating as Isbell had said, this band came to rock.

Isbell moved to a Strat for “Overseas,” with its repeated refrain that “our love won’t change a thing,” and lyric about the distance he experienced when his wife is off touring to support her own albums, that ironically benefitted from her harmony vocals, and elicited another lengthy slide solo from Isbell. For “24 Frames,” Isbell moved to a Telecaster, with Vaden playing the fills and main slide guitar solo on a Rickenbacker. Isbell often gets categorized as Americana or country rock, but as he dove into the catchy vocal hook of “It Gets Easier,” a song that deals with the struggle of an alcoholic to stay sober, it’s clear that he writes songs with big, organic pop melodies. And here, Shire’s fiddle shines through as well, and stood out as well on Isbell’s “Letting You Go,” a song about their daughter, who Isbell said was watching from the wings of the stage. Vaden was playing a slide solo on an SG, and Isbell egged him on, saying “c’mon Sadler.”

Isbell & his fine band of players had settled into a nice groove, all playing with a mix of skill and intensity as the emotions in the music called for it, but things stepped up a notch on “Decoration Day,” a song dating back to Isbell’s days with Drive-By Truckers, which built from to the intense rocker with Isbell talking a slide solo and Vaden delivering a fast, ripping electric response on a Gibson Les Paul. For balance then, they turned to the acoustic ballad “The Last of My Kind,” which allowed the keyboards of Derry DeBorja and Shire’s violin to shine through, and a fun call and response between Vaden playing slide on a Strat and Shire matching him lick for lick.

Isbell next introduced songs from a covers album, Georgia Blue , all songs by that state, with proceeds going to protect the right to vote. First up was R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming,” with Isbell on acoustic doing a fairly strong approximation of Michael Stipes voice, emphasizing the song’s accessible melody even more than the original recording. Then Vedar sang lead and played the dominant lead guitar on a rockin’ version of “Honeysuckle Blue,” by Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’s Kevin Kenney. Then as if to play a song from Isbell’s own home state, the offered up “Alabama Pines,” the only song they played from the 2011 album, “ Here We Rest .” Which they followed with a tender version of “Elephant,” about the passing of a cancer patient, Isbell on acoustic, with DeBorja’s piano and Shire’s violin adding to the song’s delicate delivery.

Then, as if to shake off the somber demons, they dived into the fun, “Super 8,” with that great line “Don’t wanna die in a Super 8 motel/Just because somebody’s evening didn’t go so well.” At this point, it was pretty clear to me that the 400 Unit, many members like Isbell coming from Muscle Shoals Alabama, is one of the best live bands working today, each player quite exceptional on their chosen instruments. And as if to demonstrate their versatility, they played the acoustic leaning “Only Children,” with Vaden on acoustic and Isbell playing a Strat solo that captured the guitar sound and tone of Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.

Next, Isbell invited Amanda Shires to sing the lead on “Cross Bones Style,” a shouter by Cat Power that she recorded with the band on Georgia Blue . Then, to celebrate their relationship and show his appreciation to have her back playing live with the 400 Unit, they gave another gentle, intimate rendering of “If We Were Vampires,” his acoustic ballad, a defiant love song that faces down mortality, that sounded appropriately moody and haunted. Then picking things up musically, but continuing that married life theme, the band delivered the big rocker, “Stockholm.” Then for the acoustic opening of “The River,” most of the band left the stage, just Isbell on acoustic and Shires on harmony vocal and violin, until Vaden joins in on slide guitar and the rest of the band slowly joins in as the song builds to a soaring slide solo. They closed the set with “Cover Me Up,” with Isbell alone playing the acoustic ballad, much like the performance on Live From the Ryman , which builds toward the end with the full band and Shires joining in.

When they returned for the encores, Isbell talked briefly about how great it was to be at a point in his career where he could name an artist he loved listening to and they’d come out and open for him, by way of re-introducing Adia Victoria, who sang her song from the Georgia Blue , album “The Truth,” originally recorded by Precious Bryant, with a rustic, back country blues feel. And then, as if to say, “hey, we could play all night,” the band slowly eased into “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” written by Dickey Betts of The Allman Bros. Band, starting with the jazzy intro, locking into the classic double lead harmony guitar melody, best played by Betts and the late Duane Allman. And the 400 Unit dug in and sought to give the blues rock classic its due, with Vaden and Isbell playing those classic runs together, then Vaden taking a long solo on a Les Paul, followed by De Borja giving his Hammond B3 a Gregg Allman workout, and finally Isbell closing out on his SG, before pulling things back together to repeat that signature double lead outro and allow drummer Chad Gamble a brief solo, the song altogether lasting at least 15 minutes of classic blues rock nostalgia. As someone who spent way too many teenage hours absorbing “ Live at the Fillmore East ,” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit did it up just fine. A great conclusion to a fine evening of live music.

Adia Victoria and her three-piece support band – bass and drums and lead electric guitar – delivered a strong opening set, drawing largely on her latest album, A Southern Gothic . Playing older vintage acoustic guitars, she opened with “Far From Dixie,” while her guitarist and the band laid down an echo-laden haunted vibe that served her songs spirit well. First introduced to the music of classic bluesmen, Victoria said they always sang about some “Mean-Hearted Woman,” but they never explained what broke her heart and made her so mean. To introduce “Magnolia Blues,” she quoted her producer T Bone Burnett, who said she never needed to explain herself to the audience, her job was to make them feel something. After playing two more from here third album – “Whole World Knows” and “My Oh My” – Victoria put down her guitar to deliver the dark narrative of “Troubled Mind,” which her band extended with a bluesy psychedelic feel that segued into “Different Kind of Love,” which she picked up a tambourine and shook it to the throbbing beat. She closed her solid set with “South Gotta Change,” a message that speaks for itself.

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Announce Announce Tour and New Album, Share New Song “Death Wish”: Listen

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have announced a new album. Their follow-up to 2020’s Reunions is titled Weathervanes and it’s out June 9 (via Southeastern / Thirty Tigers ). The first song they’ve shared from the album is “Death Wish.” Check it out below.

Between studio albums, Isbell and company released the guest-heavy Georgia Blue , where they covered songs by Georgia-reared artists like R.E.M., the Allman Brothers, and Precious Bryant. Isbell had suggested the idea as the state awaited its returns for the 2020 presidential election, and the project benefited organizations advocating for voter participation and racial justice. Isbell has also been at work in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon , joining Jack White, Sturgill Simpson, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio in the true-crime drama.

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Weathervanes :

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

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Live Review: Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, Aimee Mann, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 23, 2024

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The only thing more welcome than hearing the once-shambolic live sound of Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit grown and honed to fine, aged-whiskey perfection was the surprise (to me) opening set from Aimee Mann, an artist Isbell called “the finest songwriter.”

Once a messily musical student of the churning combine of soul, country, bluegrass, rockabilly and gospel that made the Band divinely rickety (and dangerous), Isbell and his longtime collaborators, the 400 Unit, have taken up the mantle of well-worn, smooth interplay that was Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ mien. Whether it was the Southern dirtball rock-out of “Flying Over Water,” the slow, rangy “Elephant” or the fuzztone clutter of “Hope The High Road,” Isbell and band patiently took their time with their conversational instrumental prowess. Team Isbell filled many of its (usually) long songs with the rococo nuance of boyish harmony vocals, rippling accordions and dexterous jazzy drumming—with two full kits, yet. The heightened passion of the night’s closers (“If We Were Vampires” and “This Ain’t It”) could only have occurred between close bandmates whose every breath, pluck and pounding is pure intuition.

Though he’s well-regarded as a storyteller, my belief is that Isbell is, in reality, a romantic essayist with a poet’s flirtation, a feel for filmic narrative, many bones to pick and the humor to back it all up. The Alabama-rooted Isbell waltzed through the three-song salvo of “King Of Oklahoma,” “Strawberry Woman” and “Last Of My Kind” with more quickened, overlapped thoughts and tiny character studies than Robert Altman’s Nashville , several toasty twin-guitar breaks, a ragged, glorious solo worthy of Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer” and Isbell’s shredded, plaintive vocals square in the center of that whirlwind. If you were looking for a 21st-century take on Hemingway short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” Isbell was ready with “White Beretta” and his rumination on abortion and its religious implications (anyone who can turn the phrase “Raised in church, rinsed in blood” into a rousing chorus has their cassock on straight).

Need a primer on Southern hospitality and hostility? Listen no further than “Cast Iron Skillet.” What it means to battle alcoholism and win (Isbell’s been sober since 2012) and live hard through the heartbreak and struggles of love? Throw a dart—those victories and the pains that brought him here waft like cigarette smoke through most of the Isbell catalog. Plus, they took the family feel of the 400 Unit to its nth degree when guitarist Sadler Vaden took the mic, powerfully, to cover “Honeysuckle Blue” by his former band Drivin N Cryin, while Isbell pulled from his own back pages of Drive-By Truckers classics for a yowling, slide-guitar listen into “Decoration Day.”

A perfect set with dramatic peaks and valleys—that’s what Isbell and his 400 Unit do best. And did, to towering effect, on Friday night at the Met.

Then again, Isbell and Co. had their work cut out for them after the spectacular melodrama of Aimee Mann. Thirty years into a solo career of svelte, sophisticated songcraft as a composer and lyricist, Mann has turned even more Bacharach-ian through the arching complex pop of songs such as “Lies Of Summer” and the tautly repetitive jangle of “You Never Loved Me.” Backed by a harmony-ready quartet and the occasional aid of collaborator Jonathan Coulton (“Melancholy Melodies,” “Patient Zero,” “Rollercoasters”), Mann proved she’s still creating distantly emotional material that’s as menacing funny as it is wistfully, smartly romantic—be it new material (“Suicide Is Murder,” initially penned for a Broadway musical version of Girl, Interrupted ) or “Save Me” (her arch classic written for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia ).

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In June 2023, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit released the album,  Weathervanes  on Isbell’s record label Southeastern. The album, produced by Isbell, includes singles, “Deathwish”, “Cast Iron Skillet” and “Save the World.”

Jason Isbell has won four Grammy Awards over the course of his career. He is known for his solo career, as a member of Drive-By Truckers (2001-2007) and for his work with the 400 Unit.

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

• Date Feb 20 , 2024
• Event Starts 8:00 PM
• Doors Open 7:00pm
• On Sale On Sale Now

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With Special Guest: Palehound

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 cra , 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 equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars.

“There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. “As you mature, you s ll a empt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you’re growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.”

Weathervanes is a collec on of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interroga on of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemp on. 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. 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.

They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the en re complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound.

The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell’s recent me on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of me to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track “King of Oklahoma” was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions.

“It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room.

Additional Ticket Information

Venue Presale: 11/9 10am – 10pm

Code: LYRIC

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