Accessibility Contact Information
Skip to content
Menu Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe Now

  • Food/Drink
  • Distilled
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture
  • Music
  • Sporting
  • Travel
  • More
    • Magazine
    • G&G Distilled
    • Made in the South Awards
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • Wild South podcast
    • Good Dog Photo Contest
    • Event Party Pics
    • Specialty sales program
  • Shop Fieldshop
  • Visit the G&G Clubs
  • Read our books
  • Get our newsletters
  • Attend our events
  • Get G&G Weddings
Subscribe today and save.
Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription

Keep up with Garden & Gun logo

Sign Up for Our Newsletters

9 of 17

The 17 Best Southern Albums of 2017

The Nashville Sound
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

“One of my beliefs is that I have to talk about my beliefs,” Jason Isbell told Garden & Gun in an interview a couple of months before the release of The Nashville Sound, a fearless album that after a couple of records’ absence gives equal billing to Isbell’s sizzling backup outfit, the 400 Unit. The title certainly makes a bold statement, but Isbell delivers with roaring rock songs combined with tender moments, each steeped in the power of his literary wit and keen observations.

Essential tracks: “White Man’s World,” a tense examination of white privilege, and “If We Were Vampires,” a powerful duet about mortality with his wife, Amanda Shires.

Garden & Gun logo
  • Food & Drink
    • Recipes
    • Drinks
    • Southern Tastemakers
  • Home & Garden
    • Homes & Architecture
    • Gardens
    • Entertaining
  • Arts & Culture
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Books
    • Style & Fashion
    • Goings On
  • Sporting
    • Land & Conservation
    • The Sporting Life
    • Good Dogs
  • Travel
    • City Guides
    • Seven Southern Series
  • Music
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • Artists
    • New Releases
  • Magazine
  • More
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • G&G Reads
    • Made in the South Awards
    • Good Dog Photo Contest
    • G&G Society
    • Event Party Pics
    • The Good Road
    • G&G Distilled
    • Specialty Sales Program

  • Subscribe

  • Newsletter Signup
  • Search
  • Shop Fieldshop
  • Visit the G&G Clubs
  • Read our books
  • Get our newsletters
  • Attend our events
  • Get G&G Weddings
Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe today and save.

Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription
Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe today and save.

Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription