Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Weathervanes

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Weathervanes
 
Tracklist
1 Death Wish
2 King of Oklahoma
3 Strawberry Woman
4 Middle of the Morning
5 Save the World
6 If You Insist
7 Cast Iron Skillet
8 When We Were Close
9 Volunteer
10 Vestavia Hills
11 White Beretta
12 This Ain't It
13 Miles

Notes: Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. 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.