Jason Is bell and the 400 Unit

The Nashville Sound

As word spreads about Isbell being a great American songwriter for our times, the man gets on with the job of proving it. Opener The Last Of My Kind and Tupelo are lovingly-crafted Americana and when the electrics kick in for Cumberland Gap a balance of bite is revealed. It’s when Isbell looks inwards with honesty that he reveals his greatest gift of making the personable relatable, facing mortality in the haunting fingerstyle and harmony with wife Amanda Shires in If We Were

Vampires. In the rockier Anxiety he reflects fears with a refreshing frankness that will connect. Rob Laing Download Anxiety