Cait Stoddard February 21st, 2023 - 4:09 PM
Today Grammy-Award winners Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announced the upcoming release of their eighth album Weathervanes, will be out on June 9 bySoutheastern Records/Thirty Tigers. Written and produced by Isbell, Weathervanes features 13 brand new tracks. “Death Wish” is the debut release and it is available now.
Weathervanes is a collection of songs about adult love, change, the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. Isbell is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes.
In the press release Isbell discusses what the meaning behind “Death Wish” is about.
“Death Wish’ is about being in love with someone suffering from depression, with a powerful universal undercurrent about the fragility of life and the power and limits of love. That grown-up kind of love. Musically the track is beautiful and fascinating. Now it feels complicated and intricate, yet never fragile, like the subject of the song itself.”
Weathervanes was recorded at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio and it features Isbell’s Grammy winning band, the 400 Unit: Derry deBorja (Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Accordion, Synthesizers, Therevox, TackPiano, Background Vocals), Chad Gamble (Drums, Percussion, Congas), Jimbo Hart (Electric Bass, Bass), and Sadler Vaden (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric 12 String, Acoustic 12 String, Background Vocals).
Special guests include Grammy winner Amanda Shires (Fiddle, Background Vocals) and acclaimed harmonicist Mickey Raphael (Harmonica on “Strawberry Woman”) with Background Vocals on “If You Insist“ by renowned producer and engineer Sylvia Massy & Ian Rickard and Strings on “Death Wish” by Morgan O’Shaughnessey.
Weathervanes Track Listing
- Death Wish
- King of Oklahoma
- Strawberry Woman
- Middle Of The Morning
- Save The World
- If You Insist
- Cast Iron Skillet
- When We Were Close
- Volunteer
- Vestavia Hills
- White Beretta
- This Ain’t It
- Miles
Photo Credit: Boston Schulz
