Jason Isbell
Grammy Award winning musician Jason Isbell will continue his tour with his band the 400 Unit this fall. The second leg of the band’s summer tour will kick off August 20 in Shreveport, LA and wrap up on November 14 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The tour includes stops in Chicago, Charlotte, Los Angeles and Dallas. Isbell and the 400 Unit will also play a six-night residency at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.
The international tour will hop across the pond to the UK on October 25 and make its way over to Denmark, with stops in Germany, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway.
Isbell is supporting his new album The Nashville Sound, released in June.
About Jason Isbell
Born in Green Hill, Alabama, Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell has been on the music scene since 2000. While he is best known for his solo career with The 400 Unit, he was a member of the Drive-By Truckers band for six years between 2001 and 2007.
As a child, Isbell’s grandparents taught him to play a variety of instruments. He started out playing in a garage band and a country cover band at the tender age of 14. By the time he was 16, he was playing at the Grand Ole Opry.
He would join the Drive-By Truckers in 2001, at the age of 22, after working as a songwriter.
After a six-year stint with the Drive-By Truckers, Isbell released his debut solo album Sirens of the Ditch in 2007.
In 2013, he released his fourth studio solo album entitled Southeastern, which featured accompanying vocals by his wife Amanda Shires. The album received positive reviews from critics. His fourth album earned him several Americana Music Awards in 2014, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year for “Cover Me Up.”
Isbell describes his fifth studio album Something More Than Free as celebratory and a reflection of his upcoming fatherhood. The album peaked at number one on the US Country, Folk and Rock charts, and hit number 2 on the Indie charts. Isbell sold more than 143,000 copies of the album.
In 2016, Isbell won two Grammy Awards for Best American Roots Song for “24 Frames” and Best Americana Album for Something More Than Free.
His latest album The Nashville Sound peaked at number 1 on the US Country, Indie, Rock and Folk charts. Released on June 16, the album has already sold 80,900 copies.