February 16, 2010 - PRESERVATION: an album benefiting Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program hits the streets! (Best Mardi Gras Ever?) While we wait with baited breath, we share with you these previews of the 19 amazing tracks and special guests that make this latest offering from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band so very special. In this installment...JASON ISBELL
by James Christopher Monger & Andrew Leahey
for Allmusic.com
After spending six years with the genre-defying roots rock ensemble Drive-By Truckers, singer/guitarist Jason Isbell amicably left the group in 2007 to pursue a solo career. Isbell had already displayed his songwriting prowess during his tenure with the Truckers, and he funneled those talents into Sirens of the Ditch, a bluesy, punk-infused lesson in guitar tones and Southern swagger that marked his solo debut in summer 2007. Backed by a band dubbed the 400 Unit, Isbell took his songs on the road and soon began penning another album, which he recorded with the 400 Unit in 2008. Released the following year, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit found the songwriter ruminating on issues of love, youth, and war.
SESSION PHOTOS BY SHANNON BRINKMANTHE SONG:
"Nobody Knows You"
Jason Isbell & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
(Jimmie Cox) Universal / MCA Publishing
Jason Isbell - vocals, guitar
Leroy Jones - trumpet
Rickie Monie - piano
Carl LeBlanc - banjo
Walter Payton - string bass
Jason Isbell appears courtesy of Lightning Rod Records
AS PERFORMED BY BESSIE SMITH (1929):
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT - "SOLDIERS GET STRANGE"
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT - OFFICIAL WEBSITE
PRESERVATION HALL - OFFICIAL WEBSITE
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