Why is it that more artists don't have the balls to write like this! Jason Isbell is everything Nashville pretends to be, AUTHENTIC!!!!! Best fucking songwriter on the planet period end of story!

Longtime Jason Isbell fan and public school teacher here. Thank you, Mr. Isbell, for capturing so well one of the most pressing issues of our day. "Swear you’ll save the world when I lose my grip/Tell me you're in control..." Such power and empathy in these words. The entire song provides a cathartic experience for me. "Something's changing inside my head."-- I feel this so much, as a teacher, a mother, a citizen in a dying community, and a volunteer at my local jail. I weep for our world.

This man does not miss

Well, what can one say? Those lyrics. Those guitars. Our boy's just leading the field. In any sense.

One of the truly great songwriters of his generation.

Great song, lyrics and message. It is slowly happening but Country music is on a path to do more than sing songs about drinking beer. Good on you 400 Unit for doing your part.

Jesus. I don't even have kids, and this song just wrecked me. Masterfully done as always, Mr. Isbell.

He's the real deal! Only the truly great songwriters will make your jaw drop with their lyrics, Jason does this all the time!

Youngest son’s birthday today… I’m also a teacher. I can’t get through this song without falling apart. My boys are homeschooled because active shooter drills should not be something any child should have to go through.

“And when you said the cops just let ‘em die,” brought a tear to my eye.

This song broke my heart. He has a way of putting things in to words that resonate

Wow Jason. Elementary classroom teacher and parent here. This hit me square in the gut, as usual; but this was soo different. So…. On target. What the hell do we do.

Thank you! Somebody had to write this song. Now, how do we save the world?

Jason is firing on all cylinders on this latest one… loving this new album

This is the horror every American parent feels now, when is the madness gonna stop, so honest, parents can only rely on each other not to go mad when trying to keep our children safe. Jason never holds back and writes songs that cut deep.

Best songwriter

Great song 👏

This Chorus! Is 🔥 As always, he gets his sentiment across so perfectly with so few words. This will resonate with alot of people. It does with me and I don't even have school age kids. It's an exceptional conversational piece.

Jason Isbell through his gift of songwriting is the reluctant arbiter of the 21st century. From Dress Blues to Save the World Jason represents the effects that unspeakable tragedies have on all of us.

Wow beautiful! That chorus is very original...the song is heartbreaking but hopeful.

Rare for a song to affect me emotionally theses days (I'm old) but this song one did. Seriously great tones on that guitar!

The entire album is great.

Best songwriter in the game... he just keeps getting better... very rare talent

The album releases just keep getting better! I've been dying for new material, but this tests the phrase.

Always genius. Always Isbell.

This dude is awesome 👍

Another breath taking novel in a song.

As a guitar player…this is musically probably my favorite song out of the last three albums.

Wow...nail meet hammer. Just heard this for the first time. We just had our first kid 3 months ago. He was born abroad and our friends/family cant understand why we dont bring him "home" to raise him. This song here is exactly why. It is no longer safe in the USA and we don't want to live with fear.

Thank you for sharing the heart wrenching soul gathering song.

Mr Isbell hits it home .. again !!.. brilliant work Sir ! ☘️

I don’t how this song has eluded me thus far but I’m sitting here at work listening to it alone and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Even looks like my house in the cover photo.

Today's Dylan and Springsteen. A special talent.

Very cool, and we needed this. People take songs there own way, and it sounds like he's giving answers here. Preventative measures. To step in when you see those red flags like so many do, but do nothing. Be aware of your surroundings and know your exits. No matter if I'm right or wrong, we need much more of this.

Incredible song with lyrics that really hit home.

Wow I just started listening and the lines about a school shooting and the cops letting them die That’s the Uvalde shooting And just wow those lines are powerful Especially since it feels so recent

What an amazing, heartbreaking song.

"Can we keep her here at home instead, can we teach her how to fight. Something's changing inside my head, something's drowning out the light." Wow.......

Jimbo Hart is the force behind this tune with that strong bass line.

Thank you, Jason

I'm an elementary school teacher, and we had an active shooter prank call a few weeks back. Between that and everything on the news, this song hit hard. It's hard to feel hope for the future during times like these

Man, does he open on tour with this? Powerful…seems like a plea to God “tell me your in control…”. Thank you, Jason for your honesty.

He really nailed what it feels like to be a parent in the US right now.

Yes!!!!

Received my copy of the disc on Monday and I've been through it several times. Amazing! I don't know how long this string of great albums will last but I'm really enjoying the ride. Thank you Jason, Amanda and the fantastic 400 Unit.

The awesome lyrics are contemporary, but the sound reminds me of my highschool days in the 80s. There's nothing like a Jason Isbell song out there today.

I wish this song didn't exist. But damn it's good! Crazy world...

Such a powerful song!

Another Isbell song that's so true it hurts to listen...butI listen.

Someone has been listening to the Police....guitar pattern, drums all sound like early-80s Police inspired. Good tune Jason.

Cannot wait for the whole LP to drop next week!!!!

I already know this is going to be incredible live. Big Overseas vibes.

Brilliant and crushing at the same time.

bravo

This sounds wonderful and mystical. Mysterious and earthbound. Thanks, I'm headed to my classroom now. About 35 children in kindergarten at an afternoon program in a poor area of South Jersey. The foundations founder is a famous actor. Now thoughts of Parkwood come back, and I'm on shaky ground!!! I'm getting to meet the son of a famous musician at the end if this month. I don't want to miss this or my sweetheart in the philipines... my issues snd not Jason's. Sorry. Jason's music got me through covid and before that time period. Watching 24 frames from the top floor of a university hospital brought me inward and satisfied. The 400 unit is why I stay. Such a talented group! Best wishes always Robert zeligson

The terror of being a father in today's world, and in this world in general. Confiding in your wife, and begging for reassurance that she'll take care of the kids if the fear drives you crazy.

Just saw JI and the 400 unit in Austin a few weeks ago. I was on holiday from New Zealand and the Dallas shooting happened when I was there. My friends and family freaked out. Come and live in NZ guys! No school shootings here!! 🇳🇿

Most American song written in decades.

GOOD TUNE

Will always love Jason...such raw honesty.

Jason is the best

So good guys! Really touching.

I wonder if that’s Sadler or Jason on the opening guitar work

Saw you on Ari Melber today. Now you've made me cry. New fan here.

It's a worst fear come to life and you worry daily if their school is next. We haven't gone very far at all with technology and such it seems if we can't keep our children from doing this. We have to let them know there are alot of times in life where you feel so sad or helpless you want to do something drastic, or you're so pissed off you feel crazy, but those are normal fuckin emotions everyone gets at some point and if you try you can work through them. Theh will come and go. I told my son that when he was 11 and he told me later no one told him that he school. Also said he wished they had pressed buisness and economics more... However, he said they barely touched on why we act how we do and why people act out like they do. He said he felt happy, sad, angry, etc., all within the same thirty seconds. I said welcome to your hormones, they can help or hurt you so learn how to control them. Everyone has a temper, but I don't understand how it comes to hurting others. Jason is the man though! Been following him for 15 years solid I know

'Swear you'll save the world when i start to slip, you'll be the first to know.' This is a call to arms for the family, friends, teachers... who realize the ones who are on the ledge of a catastrophe. Speak up and take action, you can save lives.

So good

Simply the best.

Awesome as always he never disappoints

As a contemporary poet he has few equals…. His maturity is amazing

Weathervanes is a damn good album, but I guess we should expect nothing less.

Boom

This is real life in song

You are leading a necessary conversation

Another brutal truth from Jason.

OMG! This man’s artistic output is superhuman. I’m sure there are others, but I can only think of one other example where the quality does not fade from album to album - The Beatles. On a heavier note, Michael Jason Isbell is genuinely terrified that our children (Mercy)are not safe these days - in school and in public. Fear not - the activism fighting gun violence is growing exponentially. It HAS to- Every mass shooting does not just rain PTSD down on our communities, it creates hundreds, sometimes thousands of new anti gun violence advocates. We will prevail!!!

Great work Jason. This is a solid song, and really resonates with me having a 7 and 4 year old. Looking forward to High Sierra, thanks for always making your way out to Northern CA / Northern NV

❤

The Milky Way yields the these lyrics. Holy hell is this good

Another fine song, by a great group , rock on Jason and the band 5:09

Another one knocked out of the park! Finest songwriter of his generation.

I’m a huge fan of JI&The400Unit and also a big fan of Dawes, and my first impression of this song was that it has a very Dawes like feel, which is a damn good thing! Jason & Taylor Goldsmith are two of the finest writers in music today!

Okay never listen to Isbell new songs on public transit. 😂😢😅

Just... perfect... song after song, album after album...perfect

Jason gives me the impetus to go back and substitute teach in Tx. Retired from 30yrs. I was the best, what can they do? Fire me?🤣

My wife’s a teacher, and her district lost a ton of teachers this year. Another victory in the Republican war to crush the public education system.

bighugmate!!!NoDoubtYourMydearbrother!!!!!!

So I'm reading The Ministry of the Future by Stanley Robinson. Who is You in this song?

“ cops just let them die” powerful because so simply and truthfully put

From the four or five songs already released I think this may just be Jason’s best record…and that really is saying something!

Great song! Alas I have heard too many great songs about kids getting shot.

I never saw it like this. Thank you. THEY done this ON PURPOSE.

Amazing album! Great to hear Isbell help people realize we have more than a racist white city cop problem….we have an extremely serious “police culture” problem EVERYWHERE in this country!

his lyrics are like daggers

People who are in need of hearing this probably will not, all I ask, is put down the weapons and put on the album.

that song ...........

Profound💔

Have you read,The Ministry of the Future?

Is it just me, or has Jason been listening to REM?

Man if this is country then I'm now a country fan. This guy is good and he doesn't even need that phony country twang