Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit and Chuck Prophet on 11/8/2009 at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on JamBase

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA

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Venue Info

Great American Music Hall: Official Website
Phone: (415) 885-0750 859 OFarrell St; San Francisco, CA 94109; View Larger Map & Directions

JASON ISBELL: For a comparatively brief moment in the mid-1960s, Muscle Shoals, Alabama was the unlikely epicenter of a major American songwriting renaissance. Here are some of the names: Arthur Alexander, Donnie Fritts, Eddie Hinton, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, O.C. Smith, Joe South, Tony Joe White. Toss Bobbie Gentry into that mix, on style if not geography, and the list is not complete, regardless. Style matters, for in those turbulent times these writers and their collaborators fused the vocal passion of African-American soul and gospel to an Anglo-Saxon storytelling tradition which goes back at least to Beowulf: Tough, hard, passionate, unflinching songs, unrepentant in their sense of place and direct in their stubborn Southernness. That is a powerful pile of names to spade across the work of Jason Isbell, as his second solo album, named for his band, is, well, only his second solo album. And he's almost 30. It's not simply that he lives in Florence, Alabama, just outside Muscle Shoals, nor that he recorded Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit at the famed FAME studio there. That guarantees nothing. The songs will stand on their own.: Ticket Price: $15; Door Time:7:00pm; Show Time:8:00pm; Ages:All Ages; Website:http://www.musichallsf.com