Known for their electric live shows, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit recently brought their 2024 tour to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!

This article is adapted from a press release.

Most recently, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit released Weathervanes, Jason’s ninth studio album overall and his sixth with the 400 Unit band, in 2023 via Southeastern Records. The record won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

At Wolf Trap on Sept. 11, tracks from the album were the star of the show, as Isbell and the 400 Unit dotted their setlist with seven selections from Weathervanes, opening with “When We Were Close” and including “Cast Iron Skillet” and “King of Oklahoma” in a three-song encore. (The other song was a cover of “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure.)

Watch the official music video for “King of Oklahoma” by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit on YouTube:

Originally from Green Hill, Alabama, and now based in Nashville, Isbell is a four-time GRAMMY Award-winning artist and is widely renowned as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. Garnering immense critical acclaim throughout his career, NPR Music calls him, “one of the finest singer-songwriters working at the intersection of folk, country, and rock today,” and continues, “his songs have an exquisite, rawboned realism and deeply embedded class-consciousness,” while USA Today proclaims, “he has developed into one of the great American songwriters…in a world where most pop songs are lies, Isbell is determined to find truth.”

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Here are some photos of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit performing at Wolf Trap on Sept. 11, 2024. All pictures copyright and courtesy of Steve Satzberg.