Southeastern

Southeastern was produced by Dave Cobb and recorded without the full 400 Unit; the players are Isbell on vocals and guitar, Brian Allen on bass, Chad Gamble on drums, Derry deBorja on keyboards and Mellotron and Cobb on percussion, with Kim Richey, Amanda Shires, Paul Griffith and Will Johnson also credited, and Mark Petaccia engineering and mixing and Pete Lyman mastering. Cobb encouraged live vocal takes. The studio and exact dates are not stated. It reached number seven on Top Rock Albums and five on Independent Albums, sold about 18,000 in its first week and 148,000 by June 2015, and is certified gold; Pitchfork gave it 7.7, Paste 9.0 and Rolling Stone 3.5 stars, and Rolling Stone ranked it 458th on its 2020 list of 500 albums.

A tenth anniversary edition on four LPs (September 29, 2023) added eleven demos and a 13-track live set recorded in December 2022 at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville.