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 Post subject: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:50 pm 
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JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT TO RELEASE SELF-TITLED CD ON FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Muscle Shoals, AL – Lightning Rod Records will release Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit's eponymous album on February 17, 2009. Isbell is a former member of the Drive-By Truckers and this is his second solo release (his first release with his band The 400 Unit). The 400 Unit is Derry deBorja (keyboards), Jimbo Hart (bass) and Browan Lollar (guitar). Matt Pence (Centro-matic/South San Gabriel) lends his talents as co-producer, drummer and engineer.

The album was co-produced by Isbell and The 400 Unit with Matt Pence. "I want it to be known that it's a band record," says Isbell. "I want it to be known that it's something we all did together. Even though I wrote the songs, it was a very inclusive project." Isbell has posted the new track, "Seven-Mile Island," on the band's MySpace site.

The album was recorded at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. Isbell, who Details Magazine calls "one of America's best young songwriters," is following in the tradition of American songwriters who have recorded in North Alabama. Much like Arthur Alexander, Eddie Hinton and Spooner Oldham, Isbell mixes a soulful vocal style with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place and direct in their stubborn Southerness.

Isbell and The 400 Unit have played over 200 dates since the release of Sirens Of The Ditch (including All Points West, Voodoo Music Experience and WXPN Freedom Fest) and will announce the first round of their 2009 dates soon.

This is the second release for Nashville-based Lightning Rod Records whose US distribution and marketing is handled by Thirty Tigers/RED.

TRACKLIST

1. Seven-Mile Island
2. Sunstroke
3. Good
4. Cigarettes and Wine
5. However Long
6. Coda
7. The Blue
8. No Choice in the Matter
9. Soldiers Get Strange
10. Streetlights
11. The Last Song I Will Write

the new song on his MySpace is pretty good too


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Best news of the day. Thanks for the heads up!


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OH SHIT GUYS:

http://www.lightningrodrecords.com/musi ... sbell.html

you can listen to pretty long clips of the entire album on there...

sounds fucking great... even more rootsy & soulful than the last record. as much of a bummer as it was when he left DBT, it's obvious to me he was too good to stay with them forever.


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Nice. Can't wait to hear it. 8)

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Sweet. This should be awesome.

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sounds pretty good.

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I was going to post this when I got home from work, but you guys actually beat me to it. I've only listened to Seven-Mile Island on Myspace so far, though.

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Um... apparently this thing has already leaked. :shock:

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Holy crap. I remember the first one leaking many months in advance.

Gotta go. I have something to do now...


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:thumbsup:

On another note, has anyone heard the live ep that he put out - Live at the Twist & Shout?


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It was less than a month before it the release date so it isn't all that surprising that it has been leaked. I was wondering why I hadn't seen anything about it being out there already so I had a quick look and found that it actually was. I'm on the second track right now, Sunstroke, which is quite superb.

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Listened to this once this afternoon at work. A few tracks stood out but I need to give it a proper listen away from work to get a better feel for it.

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Sweetness wrote:
:thumbsup:

On another note, has anyone heard the live ep that he put out - Live at the Twist & Shout?


Yeah, it's pretty good. The cover of Into the Mystic is where it's at.

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new album is f'n awesome


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link?

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thanks dudes.

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solace wrote:
new album is f'n awesome


I totally agree. Finally got a chance to hear this tonight and I loved it.

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Bump to say this shit is good.

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Yup, this thing keeps getting better. Great stuff on here.

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