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Contact: Media – Leading Edges, 601.483.9810, [email protected] Performance – MSU Riley Center Box Office, 601.696.2200, [email protected]

Isbell and the 400 Unit Plan Acoustic Show for MSU Riley Center on April 11

MERIDIAN, MS – Expect heartache, healing and hope, as well as breathtaking moments of musical beauty, as the MSU Riley Center presents An Acoustic Evening with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m.

The band’s latest album, “The Nashville Sound,” won Grammy Awards for best Americana album and best American roots song (“If We Were Vampires”). If they gave out Grammys for emotional intensity, honesty and wry humor, Isbell and the 400 Unit would have swept those, too.

Isbell, a native of Green Hill, Alabama, became a star as a member of Drive-By Truckers. After years of personal troubles, he has found peace and even joy with his wife and frequent vocal duet partner, violinist Amanda Shires, and their young daughter. His songs look back on the travails of the past and forward to the promise of the future with clarity and insight. The 400 Unit provides a musical setting that matches the simultaneous restraint and power of his lyrics.

Hard-earned wisdom. Profound truths. A quintessentially American artist at the height of his powers. An Acoustic Evening with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will bring it all to the MSU Riley Center stage in a show you’ll talk about forever.

Tickets for An Acoustic Evening with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and the other performances in the Spring/Summer Series are on sale at the MSU Riley Center Box Office and on the website, www.msurileycenter.com.

For fans of: Drive-By Truckers, Jeff Tweedy, John Moreland

Tickets are $88 and $82 at the MSU Riley Center Box Office, which is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets can be purchased online at www.msurileycenter.com or by calling the box office at 601.696.2200.

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