The songwriter released an in-the-studio album trailer narrated by ESPN’s Wright Thompson
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have a new album on tap. On Monday, the songwriter and his record label, Southeastern Records, released a teaser video that captures Isbell and his bandmates recording in the studio.
Narrated by ESPN’s Wright Thompson, the two-minute clip promises Isbell’s “latest collection of grown-up songs” will arrive sometime this year. A strip of tape above the recording console reveals titles like “Death Wish,” “White Beretta,” “Volunteer,” and “Cast Iron Skillet,” tracks that Thompson describes as “songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption.” These are,…