#the 400 unit

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I need another music ask which reminds me I haven’t answered the last couple 😬 but as we’re deep in our Jason Isbell obsession:

Top 5 lyrics- can be any album?

I couldn’t pick just 1 gif so good luck picking just 5 lyrics 🤷🏼‍♀️

I said this was going to take a long time, but in a million years I couldn't ever pick 5 top lyrics. Every time I listen to a song I hear it completely differently. I also could've chosen all lyrics from one song on Weathervanes let alone all of his music. But here we are 5 lyrics that struck me in this moment.

"I ain't use to this seeing everybody's hand. I was raised to be a strong and silent southern man" Middle of the Morning- Weathervanes This hits me so freakin' hard every time. Because I can't help but think where we could be as a country if we didn't raise kids (especially boys) to be strong and silent.

"Can't say I love her, but she's someone to talk to" Volunteer - Weathervanes I'm so taken by this, because I know he's talking about a relationship but this is so human.

"Maybe we'll get 40 years together but one day I'll be gone and one day you'll be gone" If We Were Vampires - The Nashville Sound It makes me sad, but reminds you to cherish every moment.

(This one is kinda long)

"No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about. The liberties that we can't do without seem to disappear like ghosts in the air. When we don't even care it truly vanishes away" Alabama Pines - Here We Rest Alabama Pines is one of my favorites, especially this one live version that's just perfect. And I love this closing verse, it shows why you should be passionate and why you should care.

"There's a man who walks beside me. He is who I used to be" Again, just so poignant it reminds you of growth but also of who you always are.

I love Amanda's style 😍

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Death Wish

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Music Video: Cole Gallagher - Don't You Know

#MusicVideo: @colekgmusic - Don't You Know Gallagher is forced to dig his own grave in this soulful blues-folk track @MissingPieceGrp @the400Unit #newmusic #ColeGallagher #folk #rock #blues #folkrock #crime #buriedalive

In songwriting, “digging your own grave” is often a metaphor used for putting yourself in a bad situation. In Nashville songwriter Cole Gallagher‘s latest video for “Don’t You Know”, the act is brought to life quite literally. The haunting folk-blues track, which features members (past and present) of Jason Isbell‘s 400 Unit, finds Gallagher soulfully confessing “Don’t you know I didn’t want to…

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit

Wheathervanes (2023) … a triumph …

#JasonIsbell

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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Release New single ‘Middle Of The Morning’

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/04/02/news/jason-isbell-and-the-400-unit-release-new-single-middle-of-the-morning/

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Live Preview: 3/14-3/15, Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet

Photo by Danny Clinch

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past few years, Jason Isbell’s had a lot of time to think. Pandemic and lockdown-induced isolation made us all spend a bit more time between our ears, and for Isbell, it was his experience on set for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon that yielded even more alone time. These spaces in between catalyzed the creation of Weathervanes, Isbell’s new album with the 400 Unit out in June via Southeastern/Thirty Tigers. Like Isbell’s best records, Weathervanes tackles many areas of life, from getting older and grappling with regret and depression to existing in an increasingly fraught and vulnerable world. What makes it succeed most is the extent to which he relied on his collaborators to make it, purportedly inspired by watching none other than Scorsese seek out the opinions of others while filming Flower Moon.

If there’s a line on Weathervanes that sets up the rest of the record, it comes on opener and lead single “Death Wish”, the only taste of the album so far released. On the song, about being in love with a depressed person, Isbell reflects, “The night was young once, we were the wild ones / Before we had to pay attention to the violence.” As a parent, a man, a white man, and a Southern man, Isbell feels the weight of the world, his voice uncharacteristically shaking, trying to explain that world and survive in it without shirking the performance of grappling with his complicity in the bad parts and responsibility to make it better. Morgan O’Shaughnessey’s lush strings contrast Chad Gamble’s clattering drums, mirroring Isbell’s frame of mind. The song directly foreshadows a tune like the dark “Save the World”, which sees the narrator learning about a school shooting, trying to balance his own mourning with his desire to keep his children safe. The most pointedly ruminative is “Cast Iron Skillet”, where Isbell uses the titular object as a metaphor for Southern tradition. “Don’t wash a cast iron skillet / Don’t drink and drive--you’ll spill it,” he sings, toying with the listener’s expectations in order to turn upside down a bygone nostalgia of a South that never was, condemning racism and toxic masculinity then and now.

Elsewhere on Weathervanes, there are Isbell staples: Southern rockers (“When We Were Close”, the basically live-to-tape “This Ain’t It”), soaring epics (“King of Oklahoma”, proggy closer “Miles), languid swayers (“Vestavia Hills”), and quotables galore (my favorite: “I’m running out of jokes / If you insist on being lonely, can you leave a couple smokes?”). Tonight and tomorrow night at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, you can expect to hear at least “Death Wish” and hear how it fits in with the rest of the brilliant songwriter’s unparalleled catalog over the past decade.

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aauAUAUUGHHHH I keep wanting to make stickers of the floral portrait series:

but I Keep Avoiding It whenever the thought comes up again, bc stocking all 12 pieces in any meaningful quantity would be like... ~1k all at once

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ok ok hear me out I know that in general the tumblr queers I happen to associate with aren’t generally into americana and folk rock but if people on here found the lyrics of almost any jason isbell song without knowing the actual music I guarantee they would want to listen to it just cause of how well written and emotional it is

i feel like there was a point I was trying to make but now I’m just obsession ranting about jason isbell

not sorry

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At the start of this year I had a pink party so horrendous it genuinely became a multi-session conversation with my therapist.

This weekend, I did a pink party so genuinely full of love and happiness, it completely un-tainted the awesomeness of pink parties for me

Anyway I like being an entertainer, for every nightmare gig I do like, 200 amazing ones.

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me and who

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Only Child by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Written and Directed by: Kurt Simpson

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - It Gets Easier

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If someone tells you Jason Isbell is one of the finest songwriters of his generation, believe it. His breakthrough album, Southeastern, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. There's not a mediocre song on it, and this is one of the most powerful. This album rewired my brain. I feel bad for folks who haven't discovered his music yet.

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[221218] And I leave you with: Fort stealing Peat's heart 55555

#SSofLoveinTheAir

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Announces New Album Weathervanes for June 2023 Release and Share New Single “Death Wish”

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/02/21/news/jason-isbell-and-the-400-unit-announces-new-album-weathervanes-for-june-2023-release-and-share-new-single-death-wish/