{"id":4236,"date":"2017-07-10T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:54:59","slug":"jason-isbell-400-unit-play-breese-stevens-field-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/jason-isbell-400-unit-play-breese-stevens-field-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to play Breese Stevens Field in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Outlaw Music Festival rolled through Summerfest in Milwaukee last night, and attendees were treated to a set from America\u2019s greatest living songwriter \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t Bob Dylan. That title now belongs to Jason Isbell, a modern country iconoclast who, it was announced this morning<\/a>,\u00a0will return to Wisconsin on Sept. 3 to play Breese Stevens Field with his band, the 400 Unit.<\/p>\n

Isbell, a native of Green Hill, Alabama, first rose to prominence as a member of southern rock road warriors Drive-By Truckers. He joined that band at age 22 and contributed fan-favorite songs like \u201cOutfit,\u201d \u201cDecoration Day\u201d and \u201cNever Gonna Change.\u201d Following his departure from the Truckers in 2007, Isbell embarked on a solo career, which started taking off following Isbell\u2019s getting married (to the 400 Unit\u2019s violinist, Amanda Shires) and getting sober. His breakthrough 2013 record Southeastern <\/em>is nothing short of a masterpiece, and his ability to lyrically mine empathy, optimism and even humor from the darkness of everyday life is unrivaled. Seriously, I dare you to listen to \u201cElephant\u201d or \u201cIf We Were Vampires\u201d and not start sobbing.<\/p>\n

His latest,\u00a0The Nashville Sound<\/em>, was released in June and recorded with the 400 Unit, the first studio album credited to the band since 2011\u2019s Here We Rest<\/em>. And going by songs like \u201cCumberland Gap\u201d and \u201cHope the High Road,\u201d it looks like Isbell can still rock just as well as he writes.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit go on sale<\/a> Friday, July 14 at 10 a.m., and run from $35 for general admission to $175 for VIPs. For $20, however, you can purchase a \u201cPaterson Porch\u201d option, which 1)\u00a0is not<\/em> named after Isbell\u2019s former DBT bandmate Patterson Hood, and more importantly 2) will get you seats\u00a0in the covered grandstand along Patterson Street, with baseball-style vendors selling hot dogs, peanuts and beer through the aisles. Your move, Dylan.<\/span>\n