JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT TO RELEASE NEW LIVE ALBUM LIVE FROM THE RYMAN VOL. 2

On October 4th, Southeastern Records will release Live From The Ryman Vol. 2, the new live album from six-time Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit.

Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 draws from multi-track recordings by the band’s longtime front-of-house engineer, Cain Hogsed, from 4 of the last 6 years of sold-out shows at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium. The first two live singles King Of Oklahoma and This Ain’t It are out now on all digital platforms.

Hogsed co-produced the album alongside Isbell, and mixed the tracks with Nashville, TN’s Todd Tidwell. Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 features 15 live versions of songs from the band’s last two critically acclaimed, award-winning studio albums – Reunions (2022) and Weathervanes, (2023), as well as stunning rendition of “The Last Song I Will Write,” from Isbell’s 2009 self-titled release, and a poignant cover of Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top.”

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s Weathervanes won two 2023 Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song (“Cast Iron Skillet”). Weathervanes was produced by Isbell and released in June of 2023. The record 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.

Weathervanes was named in Albums Of The Year lists in 2023 from the likes of MOJO, Uncut & Classic Rock, and received critical acclaim from The Times, Record Collector & many more.

Since his first show there in 2014, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit has sold out over 50 nights at the Ryman Auditorium. Isbell and his band are likely to add to that number this October, when he’ll perform another 8 nights at the Ryman. Tickets are still available for his annual residency there. 

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. Isbell broke through in 2013 with the release of Southeastern. His next two albums, Something More Than Free (2015) and The Nashville Sound (2017), won Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song. Isbell’s song “Maybe It’s Time” was featured in the 2019 reboot of A Star Is Born.

Isbell’s 2020 full-length, Reunions, is a critically-acclaimed collection of ten songs that showcases an artist at the height of his powers and a band fully charged with creativity and confidence. The creation of the album and the period around it is the subject of a full-length documentary from Sam Jones, Running With Our Eyes Closed. 

Isbell also appears as Bill Smith in the Oscar-nominated Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which received the 2024 SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture. Isbell’s time on set with Scorsese informed Weathervanes. He 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.”

RYMAN DATES:
October

10th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Alice Randall

11th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Garrison Starr

12th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Mary Gauthier

13th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium Caitlin and Liz Rose

17th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Matraca Berg

18th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Iris Dement

19th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Gretchen Peters

20th Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium with Kim Richey 

UK HEADLINE SHOWS
November

18th Brighton, UK – Brighton Dome +

19th Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester +

20th Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall +

22nd Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon +

23rd Wolverhampton UK – The Civic at The Halls Wolverhampton +

24th Stockton-on-Tees, UK – Stockton Globe +

25th London, UK – Eventim Apollo +

+ w/ S.G. Goodman