Jason Isbell

Jason Isbell has a Southern-rock pedigree to which any alt-country junkie can testify. Born to a musical family near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Isbell spent six years spreading the so-Southern-it-hurts gospel of the Drive-By Truckers. That band’s sweeping vision benefited greatly from Isbell’s muscular guitar prowess, but he was merely one cook in a crowded kitchen. His 2007 release, Sirens of the Ditch, allowed for a stretched-out sound informed more by Springsteen than Haggard. With his 400 Unit in tow, Isbell is back on the road to support beefy twang-rockers Cross Canadian Ragweed.

”The Day John Henry Died” by Jason Isbell