Jason Isbell Announces New Solo Acoustic Album, Foxes in the Snow, for March 7 with First Single 'Bury Me'
By Ross Jones
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Jason Isbell follows up the 10 Year Anniversary of Southeastern with Foxes in the Snow, an 11-track collection of solo songs recorded acoustically in New York City last October at the legendary Electric Lady Studios and featuring cover art by Anna Weyant.
Recorded entirely on the same all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17 acoustic guitar in the span of just five days, the album captures an artist at the peak of their powers; the virtuosic guitar playing and commanding vocal delivery on this collection is some of the most impressive of an already remarkable recording career.
Teasing the album announcement with a black and white photo of an acoustic guitar set up around a microphone the previous day, Foxes in the Snow marks Isbell’s first new music since the award-winning Weathervanes, recorded with his band The 400 Unit, in 2023.
The album artwork for Foxes in the Snow features a painting of a model house by the Canadian artist Anna Weyant that she previously posted to her own Instagram in October 2023.. Based in New York City, Weyant's figurative paintings blend influence from the Dutch Golden Age with an awareness of contemporary popular culture and social media.
Isbell is one of the most highly lauded songwriters of his generation, and this stripped back, bare-bones format puts his immense talent for evocative storytelling and the complete mastery of his craft on full display.
The album follows the announcement of his separation from singer Amanda Shires after 11 years of marriage in February 2024 and is expected to thematically touch upon their relationship and break up.
In an unintentionally poignant post this morning, Shires herself shared an acoustic rendition of her 2011 song 'When You Need a Train it Never Comes' after wiping almost all of her previous Instagram posts.
The album features 11 songs, including the single, 'Bury Me,' that begins with a Ralph Stanley style acapella intro before blooming into a perfectly picked, high and lonesome acoustic mountain folk song.
"Bury me in the last few lines of an obituary for these trying times / Find an old live oak to carve my name," he sings. "Hard liquor and dirty jokes / Cheap picture frames / Well I ain’t no cowboy but I can ride / I ain’t no outlaw but I’ve been inside."
Foxes in the Snow Tracklist
- Bury Me
- Ride to Roberts
- Eileen
- Gravelweed
- Don’t Be Tough
- Open and Close
- Foxes in the Snow
- Crimson and Clay
- Good While It Lasted
- True Believer
- Wind Behind the Rain
Isbell’s breakthrough solo album, Southeastern, was released in 2013 and spawned a modern classic in 'Cover Me Up,' covered by Morgan Wallen on his debut solo album, Dangerous: The Double Album. Since then, Isbell has gone on to win six GRAMMY Awards and broken records as the first artist to ever take home the trophy for Best Americana Album three times.
He recently added ‘actor’ to his skillset with a formidable performance opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorses’ Killers Of The Flower Moon. He will next be seen in RZA's upcoming One Spoon Of Chocolate.
The album announcement follows news of an entirely solo US tour; An Intimate Evening With Jason Isbell kicks off in Berlin on February 2nd, before continuing to the UK for a show at The Barbican in London on February 10th. The US leg of the tour begins on February 15th in Chicago. All dates below.
Feb 2: Berlin, DE - Columbia Theatre +
Feb 4: Cologne, DE - Kulturkirche Köln +
Feb 6: Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso +
Feb 10: London, UK - Barbican +
Feb 12: Dublin, IE - Vicar Street +
Feb 15: Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre +
Feb 16: Ithaca, NY - State Theatre of Ithaca +
Feb 17: Portsmouth, NH - The Music Hall +
Feb 18: Providence, RI - Providence Performing Arts Center +
Feb 20: Port Chester, NY - Capitol Theatre +
Feb 21: New York, NY - Beacon Theatre +
Feb 22: New York, NY - Beacon Theatre +
Feb 23: Princeton, NJ - McCarter Theatre +
Feb 27: Washington DC - Warner Theatre +
Feb 28: Washington DC - Warner Theatre +
March 1: Washington DC - Warner Theatre +
March 12: Oakland, CA - Calvin Simmons Theatre +
March 13: Oakland, CA - Calvin Simmons Theatre +
March 14: Los Angeles, CA - Walt Disney Concert Hall +
March 15: Santa Barbara, CA - Arlington Theatre +
March 20: Nashville, TN - The Pinnacle +
March 21: Nashville, TN - The Pinnacle +
March 22: Nashville, TN - The Pinnacle +
March 28: Nashville, TN - The Pinnacle +
March 29: Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre +
April 3: Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
April 4: Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
April 5: Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
April 6: Durant, OK - Choctaw Grand Theater
April 8: Houston, TX - 713 Music Hall
April 10: Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
April 11: St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre
April 12: Savannah, GA - Savannah Music Festival
April 13: Greenville, SC - Peace Concert Hall
Foxes in the Snow is released on March 7th via Southeastern Records.
