Jason Isbell, The 400 Unit

Jason Isbell, The 400 Unit - Alabama Pines

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@5yearsout Жыл бұрын

"No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about" - Jason plucked that one right out my head. Perhaps my favorite Isbell lyric of all-time, and there are thousands to choose from.

@editorrbr2107 11 ай бұрын

I sang this song to myself for a solid year, stuck in Hawaii. “No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about,” was fulfilled when I saw her across the bar in 2011. She did. She gave a damn about all of them. Within two years, she became the gasoline to my dreams - and I needed that damn woman. Still need that woman, the woman who puts a lump in my throat even after 9 years. I am completely changing my life to come home - come home to Alabama, come home to her, come home to an “us,” and come home to me. One step in front of the other. And I don’t regret a single thing I do or become, or a step on this path to being a better man - all just to walk with her beneath the Alabama pines. For so many reasons, this song will always be special. Thank you.

@bartonsamuelbanta 4 жыл бұрын

This really is one of the best goddamned songs ever written

@We_are_the_light 3 ай бұрын

What a triumph of the soul for this guy. He was neat the end and he pulled it out. Thank god he did. Hes the greatest songwriter on the planet

@caltech25 2 жыл бұрын

10 years later, he somehow looks 10 years younger than he did in this video. Sobriety suits Jason - alot of artists are afraid to give up their vices in fear of compromising their creativity, but Jason just gets better and better over time.

@johndeere8594 2 жыл бұрын

He lost a bunch of weight.

@typacsk Жыл бұрын

I heard a story once -- I don't know if it's true -- that he and Amanda were watching that Stephen Hawking movie, and he asked her "If you had known when we met that I had only a few years to live, would you have given it a chance?" She supposedly answered "When we met, you did have only a few years to live."

@grosebud4554 Жыл бұрын

He was using lots of drugs and alcohol here. Sobriety rewinds the clock 10 years.

@adamclark7981 Жыл бұрын

His unbelievable talent has never wavered…. But give me drug & alcohol Isbell’s songs any day. His newer stuff is great for sure but the old stuff just hits different.

@scottkennethjones Жыл бұрын

@@grosebud4554 nailed it.

@jekiely 6 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful cry for help, and what a beautiful thing that he found it. I love this song.

@melissaglaister8234 5 ай бұрын

I am from Florence Alabama (Melissa Glaister) The name "400 Unit" means so much to me. Your music is so wonderful and brings me Home to the Father I love and miss and the memories the pine trees and Tennessee River

@patslovokia3834 3 жыл бұрын

The 400 unit is, or was, the psych floor of Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Alabama. It may have a different name now, but everybody always knew what the 400 unit was..

@nicholaskalescky1926 2 жыл бұрын

I did not know that's where it comes from. Thank you

@amareromano4713 2 жыл бұрын

Yup. It is..Lol. I'm from there. Now in Colorado, get to see him at Red Rocks! Went to church with him growing up. Ironic.

@rachellongcrier2236 2 жыл бұрын

My man is correct. My mom worked there at ECM

@n7nms 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I love that kind of behind the scenes stuff that connects us to the music even more. 😎 💚 💚 💚

@wlgj1341 Жыл бұрын

Oh… because probably I have a different source for songs I’ve written of Alabama

@boscareccia 4 жыл бұрын

Sitting here homesick for home in the Alabama mountains and suddenly when I listen to this I don’t feel so alone

@jarrodwalker5186 4 жыл бұрын

I definitely miss Monte Sano

@rowdyman1463 Жыл бұрын

Not many as talented as Mr. Isbell. God blessed you my friend.

@mackyforou 9 жыл бұрын

This guy's a genius... Southeastern is one of my all time favorite albums. ...a soundtrack to live and learn from heartbreak and mistakes. To end up with love

@ManicPoetRyRy 6 жыл бұрын

macky one of the few albums ever made that doesn't have a bad song

@chicagochris1988 5 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more just got it on vinyl after recently finding his music , he’s a lyrical goldmine

@GregIsAFan 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much every one of his songs make me smile and tear up at the same time. What a songwriter!

@drewcherry2794 5 ай бұрын

Sober looks good on you Jason. We love you more than you'll ever know.

@n0-one0 7 жыл бұрын

I know these were dark years for Jason but I truly love all of his early solo albums as much as Southeastern and everything else he has done with The 400 Unit.

@DystOptimist 11 жыл бұрын

Haha. Love that he is listening to sport radio on 97.3 while driving. That's a true Bama boy right there.

@cheffgucci5423 4 жыл бұрын

DystOpt Alabam is a beautiful state I’m so glad I live here

@matthewshaw3845 7 жыл бұрын

Im from the UK i know hes singing about Alabama but it reminds me when i go back home in the north of England where its rolling hills, sheep, farms and rivers

@timflannagin9185 6 жыл бұрын

With towns like Sheffield and Birmingham, you can see that Alabama has a certain kinship with England. You'd be right at home driving in the North Eastern part of the state.

@dodgeanderson 6 жыл бұрын

get it bro. From Newcastle...

@tanknewartgen 4 жыл бұрын

Northern lad myself, I agree :)

@chriscollum5658 4 жыл бұрын

They're actually really similar parts of the world I think

@jims.3987 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe that was true 400 years ago. UK is virtually a communist shithole for now.

@roberthurley1568 9 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I lose the feeling for music. Then I hear something like this and it all comes back. Beautiful.

@michelleslattery309 7 жыл бұрын

Robert Hurley

@TomFromYoutube 3 жыл бұрын

Michelle Slattery

@murderinc.hunting7686 4 жыл бұрын

This song makes me really sad but makes me feel better about being sad. Hard to describe.

@gaganadeepika3869 3 жыл бұрын

I feel ya

@levithomas915 3 жыл бұрын

I feel ya.

@patwhitt 2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@laurencezemlick1979 2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother

@jlansdale536 2 жыл бұрын

Because its not fake. He writes the truth and you can relate to it.

@leslieparrott1031 5 жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon Mr Isbell while wandering KZfaq and he instantly became one of my favorite artist. Some of the best song writing I've heard in ages. Top notch

@murderinc.hunting7686 4 жыл бұрын

Check out his drive by trucker tunes too. Good stuff.

@tommyjackson1745 Жыл бұрын

When I was young I liked this song because I thought it was poetic. Now as a man I relate to it and it hits on a different level.

@donnaharris8722 2 жыл бұрын

I live 25 miles from Talladega, Jacksonville and Boiling Springs. I would love this song regardless, but that makes it more special. I have seen Jason in concert. It was great.

@MrBigFatBlackMan 9 жыл бұрын

Showing love from the U.K, England!

@emmanuellinduarte1855 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Brazil, but I love this culture and this songs, EUA is blessed by God.

@markdexter5216 5 жыл бұрын

Great song, I will have to travel from New Zealand some day to see those Alabama Pines - must be quite something to see, to write a song about them. Real music.....

@austinchappell4775 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Dexter come my friend, we welcome you to the southern part of our country!

@cheffgucci5423 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Dexter it’s true Alabam is a beautiful state I’m glad I was born and live here

@lavoyedhudgins5120 4 жыл бұрын

Mark, I've only seen pictures of your incredibly beautiful country. As an Alabama boy who has lived away for 22 years, as I enter old age I long to go back and see those pines. I hope we both get to do that.

@kemart537 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Dexter Well Mark, come on my friend, you’ll have a place to stay, and we’ll fish and hunt in my Alabama pines and probably have to catch a concert or two of Jason and the 400 Unit at the Ryman in Nashville Tennessee. I’ve seen them four time there and it’s just one hell of a show.

@markthrasher6770 3 жыл бұрын

It gives you a feeling. Driving through much of Alabama with the windows down on a mild day is like driving through one big kitchen just freshly mopped in lemon PineSol!! Pine and magnolia, and wisteria is our sea breeze down there We're lucky enough to have a coastline with sea breeze too!!

@BamaPewPew 6 жыл бұрын

Jason's music has a way of always saying the things I couldn't put into words. For that I'm grateful, and at the same time feel terrible to know he's also went through that pain. I hope your life's sadness is past you Jason, as you've helped so many of us get through ours.

@lincolnglover5440 4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact I got to the same school he did, in the same highschool band, with the same band director... And for our show this year, we are playing this sing

@alantalbert8775 6 жыл бұрын

I love this song. I listen to it all the time. And every f****** time it puts tears in my eyes. Love your work man keep it up. Peace

@ottomatic3123 3 жыл бұрын

Only 5.5K "Likes", and it was posted in 2011?!? What an injustice! This is a very lovely song, and I'm not even much of a country music listener. I heard this song in an episode of Yellowstone and had to look it up.

@badbadmanly903 4 жыл бұрын

Hate to admit it, but my KZfaq mix put this song in queue for a month or more and I skipped over it several times to get to space city. What a beautiful song! God Bless you, Jason, for beating your demons. I’m 63 and had to beat mine a couple of decades ago or more I guess, and it made me a better man, a better Dad to my children. But a little more boring. They’re always around the corner. Stay strong, brother.

@jordonhaws7856 6 ай бұрын

Just beat my demons back, I fought like hell. I'm 36 now my little daughter is 3 now. I explain it just like you a little more boring but 10× the man.

@notanfningain 6 ай бұрын

I bought an MP3 player years ago from Argos, this song was on it, so glad.

@jasonthompson126 8 жыл бұрын

The 13 people that disliked this need to gouge out their eardrums out because they have no clue what good music is.

@gringogreen4719 7 жыл бұрын

Jason Thompson Can't fix stupid my friend!😋

@ph00xy 6 жыл бұрын

He isn't my favoritest, but my wife just bought my xmas present to see him and James McMurtry. James is one of my favorites. Jason isn't bad either though

@DaPoopIsInDaPudding 6 жыл бұрын

Jason Thompson who cares

@davidkeith5377 6 жыл бұрын

yup

@AndrewGMusician 6 жыл бұрын

Jason Thompson His lyrics blow my mind. So god damn pleasantly depressing. Btw it is at 71. As far as I can tell there is a country out there where a downward thumb signifies admiration

@setharkin2768 4 жыл бұрын

Northern Alabama is gorgeous. Except that damn bridge on the Tennessee River...

@lastbrfarm 9 жыл бұрын

WOW, Last October I was in Talladega..drove to met up with a old friend in Jacksonville and got a fuckin ticket in Boiling Springs...true story what are the odds

@cgilmo78 6 жыл бұрын

Wait... really. Boiling springs is TINY. You blink and you're through it.

@nateworld323 7 жыл бұрын

The AC hasn't worked in 20 years, prolly never made a single person cold... but I can't say the same for me, I've done it many times.

@chouseman6573 5 жыл бұрын

@Rusty Lavender was just thinking the same thing.

@murderinc.hunting7686 4 жыл бұрын

@Rusty Lavender I think so. The opening line to "Live Oak" is my 2nd favorite.

@bryanburnett8993 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite line in his incredible catalogue of favorite lines

@maxryder995 Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@wayneallen6095 8 ай бұрын

As good as it gets

@JohnSwanbergteacher 6 жыл бұрын

In music, you live in the eternal now. With music, you are always alive.

@PxllWav 4 жыл бұрын

A student of Rogers High School. My mother went there also. Same time as him. I'm in the marching band. This year we're playing this song in the halftime show.

@gavin602 4 жыл бұрын

I go to Lexington

@karsonpalmer7916 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry bout your luck mate

@rebeccaleclair3616 7 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love y'all, and your music. Being from the Shoals myself, it reminds me of home. I only live an hour away, but I don't get to go home as much as I'd like.

@mathiasmolina14 6 жыл бұрын

@jasonisbell7390 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music 🎶❤️

@Thomas8892Q 4 жыл бұрын

This a true singer song writer. Love the music

@gaganadeepika3869 3 жыл бұрын

This is soul food

@amirultalmizal384 2 жыл бұрын

Im first find this song in a new MP3 that i bought in 2012, and it have been one of my favourite song.

@sk8tergirl461 2 жыл бұрын

I’m only ten but I love country and this song by Jason isbell and the 400 unit

@mattgibbons740 5 жыл бұрын

This song is pure gold.

@mattnelson5841 6 жыл бұрын

My folks are from Jacksonville Alabama. Good to hear J-ville mentioned. Go JSU Gamecocks!!!!

@elmoblatch9787 7 ай бұрын

No more stopping at Wayne's. Just drive on through, Jason.

@NeoUJ 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for such beautiful music in this stain music age

@HowToRM 8 ай бұрын

11 years later still a banger

@codybrooksmusic4119 4 жыл бұрын

Just found this... wholly shit... speechless. Isbell Rocks

@Mcseeker86 9 жыл бұрын

View 49,000 ! Way to go, Jason! Hope to see you win a Grammy soon! Should have gotten one for "Southeastern". Does anyone else feel that way?

@gypsy4460 9 жыл бұрын

Mcseeker86 yes we do

@joeldmack24111 6 жыл бұрын

Yep

@cgilmo78 6 жыл бұрын

He's got 2 now.

@GodseyKnives 7 жыл бұрын

Your awesome brother! You and your wife are a lovely couple. I grew up in those pines myself yern for them to this day home is were mother is she is no longer there .

@Tbor1000 11 жыл бұрын

Isbell never lets me down. I don't even need the video, his songs paint the pictures so well already.

@jlansdale536 2 жыл бұрын

"Done it many times". So fucking true.

@andrewherrin3999 Жыл бұрын

I love Robert earl keen, and I’ve just discovered isbell. I appreciate his originality and thoughtful lyrics. I’ve needed a younger singer songwriter to follow now that rek is slowing down

@gregorydavid8073 10 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful song! Used to hear it all the time in Nashville last summer. Now im back in Cleveland and I never hear it any more, almost forgot about it!

@amac3223 12 жыл бұрын

My new favorite band ! Jason ... you got it bro !

@TANKSHAW83 8 жыл бұрын

feel those lyrics. real music

@MrFabC Жыл бұрын

thanx to Yellowstone and Dutton family for bringing me here !

@KariAaraas100 7 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite songs!!

@kevingorman4035 11 жыл бұрын

Showin sum love from the ATL.

@bxdm8 7 жыл бұрын

I listen to this every damn day! So good!

@leoniamedeiros4440 4 ай бұрын

I Love, Jason Isbell❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@cesardecarvalho9803 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome meaningfully lyrics! Great music! Thanks!

@that_preztel. 7 жыл бұрын

Used to stop at Wayne's on fall Saturdays heading to Legion Field.

@nutsackmania 5 жыл бұрын

Enthralling story

@mcfrdmn 9 жыл бұрын

Excellent song and musical performance !

@paulelliott3220 8 жыл бұрын

Adore this song so much Wonderful as only Jason can be True marvellousness

@dudefelix 9 жыл бұрын

Jason Isbell, con un par!! grandidimo!!!!

@Thisisspacemusic 8 жыл бұрын

+Rufus Corleone like your avatar, love The smiths

@dudefelix 8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Bassman Thanks!

@baker9980 10 жыл бұрын

Long drive home all by myself on a dark and lonely road......and happy

@stinkerthecat8235 5 жыл бұрын

The most underrated song of all time. My favorite song!

@sensible_driver 4 жыл бұрын

Got this song as a sample in Philips #GoGearMix mp3 player. Loved and enjoyed...Good music, period.

@crisalej3191 3 жыл бұрын

Which another sample songs got philips goear mp3 player??

@sensible_driver 3 жыл бұрын

@@crisalej3191 1. Alabama pines 2. American nomad, the apache relay 3. Screws get loose, those darling Why you asked??

@crisalej3191 3 жыл бұрын

@@sensible_driver I've got this music player and forget these amazing songs.. thank you very much!!!! 💖💖💖

@sensible_driver 3 жыл бұрын

@@crisalej3191 okay. Enjoy! are you from USA?

@crisalej3191 3 жыл бұрын

@@sensible_driver nono.. im from Argentina! But I love Alaba pines song.. it reminds me nice seasons.

@deniserae81 7 жыл бұрын

Glad to see another Isbell doing good for hisself. My maiden name is Isbell. I'm from NE Texas.

@matan1336 2 жыл бұрын

I think the Texas side pronounces it differently though.

@FireinTheBowl Жыл бұрын

This is 10 years old? How am I just now discovering this?

@paullockley4800 6 жыл бұрын

thanks Jason beautiful bro x

@siswmaijoradebbarma3286 3 жыл бұрын

That's the real country music. Who is agree with me?

@gilactico 3 жыл бұрын

It's real music period.

@siswmaijoradebbarma3286 3 жыл бұрын

@@gilactico yup he is also Grammy Nominee I think 2 - 4 times.

@emmamullins8223 11 жыл бұрын

My cousins band sang this at his last concert. Love it!

@chadsimmons214 4 жыл бұрын

I remember those runs to Wayne’s.

@lindsaycallantine2119 4 жыл бұрын

Wow...after following him for 10+ years never really saw actual footage from his pre-sober days, I LOVE this song, and this video really really brought things from those pre-sober days to life. Makes me love him that much more.

@shaunkerr8721 3 жыл бұрын

Look up his run w the Drive By Truckers. It's how I learned of him. I went to UGA in the 00s when they were HQd out of there. It's how he got his start & a big part of why he sobered up was breaking up w the band & his wife (who was the bassist)

@matan1336 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that honestly killed me, I knew he did a lot of blow and the truckers were a hard drinking band, but I never really realized that he was still pretty bad even after the split, it's really amazing Amanda turned him around.

@lizderrough3312 Жыл бұрын

I always loved the metaphor of the little girl in the video and him considering the life he didn’t have. Prob my tenth time watching this and just noticed his little smile after she spies on him “sleeping” and then the fact that he has her drawing up in the mirror at the gig in the end. With Mercy about this age now - it’s a stunning full circle.

@mrlonelyfisherman 12 жыл бұрын

great band and awesome song.

@johnreb8111 11 жыл бұрын

He seems to be singing about my life.

@rickober61 11 жыл бұрын

Awesome song...great drummer!

@c_turfgrass7773 3 жыл бұрын

Live in Oxford, AL....kinda hits home when I’m away.

@diegocc670 6 жыл бұрын

Showing love from Mendoza, Argentina!!

@GodseyKnives 7 жыл бұрын

Makes me long for were I grew up in those Alabama pines

@johnhassan8652 7 жыл бұрын

859 people give a damn about the things I give a damn about

@mc7971 7 жыл бұрын

894 now... we all have great taste in music, I suppose!

@kitschdeva57 5 жыл бұрын

John Hassan up to 23,001...he's amazing...my current favorite sad bastard singer/songwriter.

@imane2683 5 жыл бұрын

OMG Amazing ❤❤

@cherieunsworth1922 11 жыл бұрын

Glad I clicked on this video, what a great song!!1

@roffew.1065 4 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece !

@sarajsh77 7 жыл бұрын

Trevor Noah of The Daily Show brought me here. I'm an instant new fan. Amazing music!

@GeJaFaChannel 11 жыл бұрын

I love your style so much :D

@lillian2993 4 жыл бұрын

He went to my school down here in Alabama

@dii6266 3 жыл бұрын

This song is better every time I hear it - and was good the first time. Reminds me a little of Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain.

@gordonharvey1144 10 жыл бұрын

Song writers song of the year 2012

@bcar2303 3 жыл бұрын

Six days. I cant count the number of times ive thought "but this time" im not doing it again. The last few weeks is a jumbled slideshow in my head. Im 45, an addict most of my life. This wasnt my first od but im not going back. And yea, this aint the first time that ive said things like that. But this time im surprised because i believe what im saying. Im not trying to get my wife off my back. Im not trying to bargain with myself or anyone else. I KNOW. Its finally more important to me to stay breathing than it is to escape from the pain. The people who love me deserve to be loved back and i havent been doing a good enough job of that. I could go on. My first sentence says it all. Sorry for droning on.