Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announce 'Live From The Ryman Vol. 2' ahead of UK dates this winter

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT
TO RELEASE NEW LIVE ALBUM LIVE FROM THE RYMAN VOL. 2
OUT OCTOBER 4TH ON SOUTHEASTERN RECORDS

‘KING OF OKLAHOMA (LIVE)’ - LISTEN HERE

JASON WILL PERFORM ANOTHER EIGHT NIGHTS AT THE RYMAN AUDITORIUM THIS OCTOBER & SEVEN UK HEADLINE SHOWS IN NOVEMBER

On October 4th, Southeastern Records will release Live From The Ryman Vol. 2, the new live album from six-time Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit.

Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 draws from multi-track recordings by the band’s longtime front-of-house engineer, Cain Hogsed, from 4 of the last 6 years of sold-out shows at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium. First track ‘King Oklahoma (Live)’ is available to listen to HERE.

Hogsed co-produced the album alongside Isbell, and mixed the tracks with Nashville, TN’s Todd Tidwell. Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 features 15 live versions of songs from the band’s last two critically acclaimed, award-winning studio albums - Reunions (2022) and Weathervanes, (2023), as well as stunning rendition of “The Last Song I Will Write,” from Isbell’s 2009 self-titled release, and a poignant cover of Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top.”

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s Weathervanes won two 2023 Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song (“Cast Iron Skillet”). Weathervanes was produced by Isbell and released in June of 2023. The record is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption.

Weathervanes was named in Albums Of The Year lists in 2023 from the likes of MOJO, Uncut & Classic Rock, and received critical acclaim from The Times, Record Collector & many more.

Since his first show there in 2014, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit has sold out over 50 nights at the Ryman Auditorium. Isbell and his band are likely to add to that number this October, when he’ll perform another 8 nights at the Ryman. Tickets are still available for his annual residency there.

Jason Isbell has established himself as one of the most respected and celebrated songwriters of his generation. The North Alabama native possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, and turning them into beautiful poetry through song.

Isbell sings of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty. Isbell broke through in 2013 with the release of Southeastern. His next two albums, Something More Than Free (2015) and The Nashville Sound (2017), won Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song. Isbell's song "Maybe It's Time" was featured in the 2019 reboot of A Star Is Born.

Isbell’s 2020 full-length, Reunions, is a critically-acclaimed collection of ten songs that showcases an artist at the height of his powers and a band fully charged with creativity and confidence. The creation of the album and the period around it is the subject of a full-length documentary from Sam Jones, Running With Our Eyes Closed.

Isbell also appears as Bill Smith in the Oscar-nominated Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which received the 2024 SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture. Isbell’s time on set with Scorsese informed Weathervanes. He watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions.

“It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room.”

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Live At The Ryman Vol. 2 Track Listing

1. Save The World
2. King Of Oklahoma
3. Only Children
4. Overseas
5. Dreamsicle
6. Running With Our Eyes Closed
7. Middle Of The Morning
8. The Last Song I Will Write
9. Strawberry Woman
10. Cast Iron Skillet 
11. Miles
12. River
13. When We Were Close
14. Room At The Top
15. This Aint It

RYMAN DATES:
October
10th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Alice Randall
11th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Garrison Starr
12th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Mary Gauthier
13th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium Caitlin and Liz Rose
17th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Matraca Berg
18th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Iris Dement
19th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Gretchen Peters
20th - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium with Kim Richey

UK HEADLINE SHOWS
November
18th - Brighton, UK - Brighton Dome +
19th - Manchester, UK - O2 Apollo Manchester +
20th - Edinburgh, UK - Usher Hall +
22nd - Bristol, UK - Bristol Beacon +
23rd - Wolverhampton UK - The Civic at The Halls Wolverhampton +
24th - Stockton-on-Tees, UK - Stockton Globe +
25th - London, UK - Eventim Apollo +

@ w/ Shemekia Copeland
# w/ Adeem The Artist
~ w/ Ashley McBridge
⥉ Supporting Zach Bryan
° w/ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
! Co-Headline w/ Turnpike Troubadours
∞ w/ Alejandro Escovedo
+ w/ S.G. Goodman