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.
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."
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.
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..
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.
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
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.
"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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I listen to Isbell everyday. I am from Zimbabwe. I always imagine myself coming to america one day to see all these places he talks about, particularly Tupelo. Such a treasured artist.
I'm not sure how you live 25 miles from all of these places. I only know of a Boiling Springs Road in the area also, in Ohatchee, but what do I know....
@@richardtaylor6341 I live in DeArmanville. It is 25 miles to Talladega. 20 miles or less to Jacksonville. I have not checked Boiling Springs, but it can’t be much further.
@@richardtaylor6341 I checked and it is 26 miles to Boiling Springs from my house. 25 miles to Talladega and 20 miles to Jacksonville. I live in DeArmanville
Hate to admit it, but my RUclips 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.
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.....
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.
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.
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!!
I stumbled upon Mr Isbell while wandering RUclips and he instantly became one of my favorite artist. Some of the best song writing I've heard in ages. Top notch
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
"No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about. The liberties that we can't do without seem to disappear like ghosts in the air." Takes on a real meaning in Alabama these days -
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!
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.
He lost a bunch of weight.
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."
He was using lots of drugs and alcohol here. Sobriety rewinds the clock 10 years.
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.
@@grosebud4554 nailed it.
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..
I did not know that's where it comes from. Thank you
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.
My man is correct. My mom worked there at ECM
Thanks! I love that kind of behind the scenes stuff that connects us to the music even more. 😎 💚 💚 💚
Oh… because probably I have a different source for songs I’ve written of Alabama
This really is one of the best goddamned songs ever written
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.
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
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.
get it bro. From Newcastle...
Northern lad myself, I agree :)
They're actually really similar parts of the world I think
Maybe that was true 400 years ago. UK is virtually a communist shithole for now.
"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.
Sober looks good on you Jason. We love you more than you'll ever know.
This song makes me really sad but makes me feel better about being sad. Hard to describe.
I feel ya
I feel ya.
Amen
Amen brother
Because its not fake. He writes the truth and you can relate to it.
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
Haha. Love that he is listening to sport radio on 97.3 while driving. That's a true Bama boy right there.
DystOpt Alabam is a beautiful state I’m so glad I live here
I bought an MP3 player years ago from Argos, this song was on it, so glad.
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
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.
@Rusty Lavender was just thinking the same thing.
@Rusty Lavender I think so. The opening line to "Live Oak" is my 2nd favorite.
My favorite line in his incredible catalogue of favorite lines
Nice!
As good as it gets
Sitting here homesick for home in the Alabama mountains and suddenly when I listen to this I don’t feel so alone
I definitely miss Monte Sano
No more stopping at Wayne's. Just drive on through, Jason.
The 13 people that disliked this need to gouge out their eardrums out because they have no clue what good music is.
Jason Thompson
Can't fix stupid my friend!😋
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
Jason Thompson who cares
yup
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
That's the real country music. Who is agree with me?
It's real music period.
@@gilactico yup he is also Grammy Nominee I think 2 - 4 times.
Northern Alabama is gorgeous. Except that damn bridge on the Tennessee River...
What a beautiful cry for help, and what a beautiful thing that he found it. I love this song.
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
macky one of the few albums ever made that doesn't have a bad song
I couldn’t agree more just got it on vinyl after recently finding his music , he’s a lyrical goldmine
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.
I'm from Brazil, but I love this culture and this songs, EUA is blessed by God.
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.
Sometimes I lose the feeling for music. Then I hear something like this and it all comes back. Beautiful.
Robert Hurley
Michelle Slattery
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
Wait... really. Boiling springs is TINY. You blink and you're through it.
Sure it's not Borden Springs?
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
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.
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.
I go to Lexington
Sorry bout your luck mate
Discipline is freedom.
Pretty much every one of his songs make me smile and tear up at the same time. What a songwriter!
This is soul food
Not many as talented as Mr. Isbell. God blessed you my friend.
I’m only ten but I love country and this song by Jason isbell and the 400 unit
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.
I listen to Isbell everyday. I am from Zimbabwe. I always imagine myself coming to america one day to see all these places he talks about, particularly Tupelo. Such a treasured artist.
I'm not sure how you live 25 miles from all of these places. I only know of a Boiling Springs Road in the area also, in Ohatchee, but what do I know....
@@richardtaylor6341 I live in DeArmanville. It is 25 miles to Talladega. 20 miles or less to Jacksonville. I have not checked Boiling Springs, but it can’t be much further.
@@richardtaylor6341 I checked and it is 26 miles to Boiling Springs from my house. 25 miles to Talladega and 20 miles to Jacksonville. I live in DeArmanville
@@richardtaylor6341 I live in DeArmanville, just east of Anniston
Hate to admit it, but my RUclips 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.
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.
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.....
Mark Dexter come my friend, we welcome you to the southern part of our country!
Mark Dexter it’s true Alabam is a beautiful state I’m glad I was born and live here
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.
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.
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!!
I stumbled upon Mr Isbell while wandering RUclips and he instantly became one of my favorite artist. Some of the best song writing I've heard in ages. Top notch
Check out his drive by trucker tunes too. Good stuff.
"Done it many times". So fucking true.
859 people give a damn about the things I give a damn about
894 now... we all have great taste in music, I suppose!
John Hassan up to 23,001...he's amazing...my current favorite sad bastard singer/songwriter.
Im first find this song in a new MP3 that i bought in 2012, and it have been one of my favourite song.
Showing love from the U.K, England!
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.
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.
11 years later still a banger
Got this song as a sample in Philips #GoGearMix mp3 player. Loved and enjoyed...Good music, period.
Which another sample songs got philips goear mp3 player??
@@crisalej3191 1. Alabama pines
2. American nomad, the apache relay
3. Screws get loose, those darling
Why you asked??
@@sensible_driver I've got this music player and forget these amazing songs.. thank you very much!!!! 💖💖💖
@@crisalej3191 okay. Enjoy! are you from USA?
@@sensible_driver nono.. im from Argentina! But I love Alaba pines song.. it reminds me nice seasons.
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
Long drive home all by myself on a dark and lonely road......and happy
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 .
In music, you live in the eternal now. With music, you are always alive.
My folks are from Jacksonville Alabama. Good to hear J-ville mentioned. Go JSU Gamecocks!!!!
Just found this... wholly shit... speechless. Isbell Rocks
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?
Mcseeker86 yes we do
Yep
He's got 2 now.
This a true singer song writer. Love the music
He seems to be singing about my life.
This is 10 years old? How am I just now discovering this?
I remember those runs to Wayne’s.
Makes me long for were I grew up in those Alabama pines
thanx to Yellowstone and Dutton family for bringing me here !
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.
R
Thank you so much I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music 🎶❤️
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.
Praise God for sobriety
He went to my school down here in Alabama
This song is pure gold.
Last night at OLG you sang this song for my daughter - no one calls her name 😢
Thanks a lot for such beautiful music in this stain music age
Trevor Noah of The Daily Show brought me here. I'm an instant new fan. Amazing music!
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
I’m here from Yellowstone because some how this was the only song I didn’t know and I love it
The most underrated song of all time. My favorite song!
Hidden treasures - Enjoy folks, these are few and far between
Isbell never lets me down. I don't even need the video, his songs paint the pictures so well already.
Showin sum love from the ATL.
Used to stop at Wayne's on fall Saturdays heading to Legion Field.
Enthralling story
its like this guy broke the lock off the diary and read it..so good its uncomfortably familiar
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.
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)
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.
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.
Song writers song of the year 2012
Jason Isbell, con un par!! grandidimo!!!!
+Rufus Corleone like your avatar, love The smiths
+Dan Bassman Thanks!
feel those lyrics. real music
My new favorite band ! Jason ... you got it bro !
"No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about.
The liberties that we can't do without seem to disappear
like ghosts in the air." Takes on a real meaning in Alabama these days -
Yes ma’am it sure does... such a strange time. I moved away bout 6 months ago and flew back after the storm. These my people.
Isbells a lefty btw which makes me love him even more
Glad to see another Isbell doing good for hisself. My maiden name is Isbell. I'm from NE Texas.
I think the Texas side pronounces it differently though.
This video keeps me sober
Glad I clicked on this video, what a great song!!1
One of my favorite songs!!
Adore this song so much
Wonderful as only Jason can be
True marvellousness
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!
I listen to this every damn day! So good!
I Love, Jason Isbell❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My mom is gone soon from cancer. This will be played at her funeral.
OMG Amazing ❤❤
Never been to Alabama but somehow feel this song
Excellent song and musical performance !
Live in Oxford, AL....kinda hits home when I’m away.
No son. Ain't no pines like a Georgia Pine.
Foothills of Appalachia is heaven for me. TN, GA, and AL meet in the heart
@@CONEISTAKEN 👍
thanks Jason beautiful bro x
Jason Isabella has a great voice
j'adore cette musique
Showing love from Mendoza, Argentina!!
This song makes me want to be sad
As a Jax State Grad.. I love this song.. (well b/c its awesome too!)