Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Announce New Album & Debut Performance At Encore Theater At Wynn Las Vegas, July 16

GRAMMY-Award winners Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announced today their eighth album, "Weathervanes," and new dates for their headlining tour. Isbell and the 400 Unit will make their venue debut at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas with a one-night-only performance on Sunday, July 16, 2023. Tickets for this show go on sale to the public on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 10 a.m. PST.

Written and produced by Isbell, "Weathervanes" features 13 brand-new tracks. The debut single, "Death Wish," is about being in love with someone suffering from depression, with a powerful universal undercurrent about the fragility of life and the power and limits of love. Known for his craft of storytelling, Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs. Isbell writes about adult love, change, the danger of nostalgia, and the interrogation of myths, cruelty, regret, and redemption.

Isbell's GRAMMY-winning band, the 400 Unit, is comprised of: Derry deBorja (Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Accordion, Synthesizers, Therevox, TackPiano, Background Vocals), Chad Gamble (Drums, Percussion, Congas), Jimbo Hart (Electric Bass, Bass) and Sadler Vaden (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric 12 String, Acoustic 12 String, Background Vocals).

For tickets or more information on this performance at Wynn Las Vegas, visit WynnLasVegas.com.

A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars. "There is something about boundaries on this record," Isbell says. "As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you're growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself." Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell's fearsome 400 Unit, who've earned a place in the rock 'n' roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound. The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell's recent time on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of time to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track "King of Oklahoma" was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers' opinions. "It definitely helped when I got into the studio," Isbell says. "I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room."

Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas is a world-class entertainment venue that is home to legendary resident headliners, comedic icons and one-of-a-kind concert events. At 1,480 seats, Encore Theater provides an intimate opportunity for guests to experience top talent in an incomparable setting. Encore Theater's roster of impressive performers is a reflection of the successful partnership between Wynn Las Vegas and AEG Presents Las Vegas.