My buddy Buzzard and I went to the Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit concert at the Winspear Centre last Sunday. This would be my fifth time seeing Jason and Co. in concert.
Jason and his band the 400 Unit are on the road touring for Jason's latest album Foxes In The Snow, an all acoustic album he put out a few months ago. This show was an evening with Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, so no opening act.
The venue wasn't quite sold out which kind of surprised me, but then tickets were on the expensive side, so I get it.
The band opened with the song "The Life You Chose" from his 2015 album Something More Than Free and you could tell right off the bat that Jason was in fine form, sounding really good and his band were on fire. Jimbo the bass played is no longer in the band, filling in was Annie Clements whom is a touring bassist and vocalist, who has played with Sugarland among many others. She was awesome and really brought a cool vibe to the band, smiling, playing amazing and very cute. She can rock with the best of them, and when the band played the Drive-By Truckers song "Decoration Day" a song Jason wrote while in DBT, holy fuck did they rock that song out, rocked as hard as Neil Young's Crazy Horse at their best, and Annie was rocking right the fuck out with them and with a big smile the whole time. And of course guitarist Sadler Vaden who has been playing with Isbell for a long time now was ripping it up great as well. Jason's whole band is very strong.
It was nice to hear some songs from Jason's latest album Foxes In The Snow done with a full band. Some of the songs I recognized from the album were "Eileen", "Bury Me" and "Open And Close", I really enjoyed hearing these songs done with a backing band.
I think one of the oldest songs he did other then the DBT song was "Alabama Pines" from his 2011 album Here We Rest. He did play the song "24 Frames" which was awesome as it is one of my favourites of his. Other songs played that I recall were "Speed Trap Town" in which Jason mentioned it being a long time since he had performed that one, then there was "Stockholm" as well. With such a great catalog of music of course there were some songs I would like to have heard, but all in all this was an awesome show with him playing about two hours with no intermission. Good times!!!
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