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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Band Muscle Shoals United States Formed 2009
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit formed in 2009 in Muscle Shoals, United States. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit has 90 chart appearances on 53 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “If We Were Vampires”, which appears on 17 lists and was voted number one three times. In total the artist has topped 3 countdowns. The station that charted Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit come out of Muscle Shoals, and they play with the sentimentality stripped out and the grit left in. Isbell's name is on the marquee, and the band around him, Sadler Vaden, Derry deBorja, Jimbo Hart, Chad Gamble and Amanda Shires, can go from a whisper to a barroom roar without missing a beat.
Here We Rest, in 2011, brought "Alabama Pines" and "Codeine", but The Nashville Sound, in 2017, was the one that broke through: "Hope the High Road" is a fist-pumping rocker, "White Man's World" simmers, and "If We Were Vampires" is quiet, spare and devastating. Reunions, in 2020, and the Dreamsicle EP followed, and Weathervanes, in 2023, carried "Death Wish" and "When We Were Close".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
Songs by Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If We Were Vampires | 17 | #1 | 3 | 2017 | |
| 2 | When We Were Close | 15 | #4 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Dreamsicle | 15 | #13 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Be Afraid | 11 | #6 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Hope the High Road | 9 | #12 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Death Wish | 8 | #10 | – | 2023 | |
| 7 | Driver 8 | 2 | #16 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | White Man's World | 2 | #42 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | 24 Frames | 1 | #40 | – | – | |
| 10 | Last of My Kind | 1 | #13 | – | 2018 | |
| 11 | Cumberland Gap | 1 | #167 | – | – | |
| 12 | Alabama Pines | 2 | #56 | – | 2012 | |
| 13 | Sad But True | 1 | #54 | – | 2021 | |
| 14 | Oh Well (live) | 1 | #643 | – | – | |
| 15 | King of Oklahoma | 1 | #75 | – | 2023 | |
| 16 | Codeine | 1 | #743 | – | – | |
| 17 | Driver 8 f/John Paul White | 1 | #173 | – | 2021 | |
| 18 | Cumberland Gap (live) | 1 | #85 | – | 2018 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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