Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2023
Label: Southeastern Records
Indie Record Store Exclusive Natural Vinyl
Track List
Side A
1. Death Wish
2. King of Oklahoma
3. Strawberry Woman
4. Middle of the Morning
Side B
1. Save the World
2. If You Insist
3. Cast Iron Skillet
Side C
1. When We Were Close
2. Volunteer
3. Vestavia Hills
Side D
1. White Beretta
2. This Ain’t It
3. Miles
Personnel
Backing Vocals – Ian Rickard , Sylvia Massy
Drums, Percussion, Congas – Chad Gamble
Electric Bass – Jimbo Hart
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Sadler Vaden
Fiddle, Backing Vocals – Amanda Shires
Harmonica – Mickey Raphael (tracks: 3)
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Accordion, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals – Derry deBorja
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Slide Guitar – Jason Isbell
Strings – Morgan O’Shaughnessey (tracks: 1)
Notes
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.
