Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Tony Thomas Three

The Read

By night six the band has already played the obligations. What is left is the material that only comes out when everyone in the room, on both sides of the stage, has settled in — deep cuts, Drive-By Truckers songs, requests that would never make a one-off set. Isbell has spent years treating the Ryman as a workshop rather than a trophy, and closing nights are where that pays. Tony Thomas Three opens. The 400 Unit are loud enough to justify a rock club and precise enough to justify a church, and this room lets them be both inside one song. If you can only take one night of the run, the last one usually carries the most. Expect it to run long.

The Room

Ryman Auditorium

116 5th Ave N

Built in 1892 as a tabernacle by river captain Thomas Ryman, who was converted at a Sam Jones revival — little did he know it would become the church of American roots music.