Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit & Mary Gauthier at Ryman Auditorium

Jason Isbell toasts to ten resounding years at the Ryman Auditorium, and to ten more, we cheer. The multi-awarded icon hit the North American roads for most of 2024’s first half, selling out venues left and right, including a packed debut at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. This fall, from October 10 to 20, he will set up shop in Nashville for another landmark residency in the city’s revered “Mother Church,” an eclectic eight-night affair of soulful music that features a highlight performance on Saturday the 12th. Musicians Sadler Vaden, Anna Butterss, Derry deBorja, Chad Gamble, and Will Johnson of Isbell’s backing band — The 400 Unit — will join his headlining sets, with nightly guest acts from an all-women lineup.

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit’s planned concert residence follows the release of their album, Live From The Ryman Vol. 2, under Southeastern Records. Our Saturday evening program, bolstered by the hall’s otherworldly aura, will showcase stand-out songs from the six-time GRAMMY Award winner’s collection of exquisite Americana and Southern Rock melodies. Fans can expect classics from The Nashville Sound (2017) and Reunion (2020), both rose to No. 1 on the US Indie, Country, Folk, and Rock charts, plus the Top 10 on Billboard 200. Singles, such as “Dreamsicle,” “Only Children,” “Last Of My Kind,” and “If We Were Vampires,” will unravel from The 400 Unit’s accompanying symphonies, emphasized further by the Ryman’s world-class acoustics.

But most of all, we anticipate the cascading emotions and experiences of the 66th GRAMMY Awards Best Americana Album, Weathervanes (2023). Through songs like “When We Were Close,” “White Beretta,” and “Cast Iron Skillet,” Jason Isbell explores fear and desperation in steady-handed lyricism that hits close to home.

These shows will uphold Isbell and Co.’s tradition of representing music from marginalized communities, having championed LGBTQIA+ and immigrant perspectives in past years. On the third day of the residency, folk-country singer Mary Gauthier will regale crowds with the tales born from her Louisiana upbringing. Her hits “Mercy Now” and “How You Learn to Live Alone” offer sobering insights from a place of grief, trauma, and recovery in the Deep South, culminating in the Grammy-nominated Rifles & Rosary Beads LP.

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit welcome one and all to their annual Nashville series live at the Ryman Auditorium this fall. Above, the “Get Tickets” link will point you to their October 12th performance. Claim some seats now for you and your friends before they fill up!