Hear Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit call for artists to use their voices in the urgent anthem “Be Afraid,” off his just-announced new album ‘Reunions’
. The Americana singer-songwriter previews the upcoming LP with the new song “Be Afraid.”
A jangly slice of low-fi indie rock, the song is a call to action for artists to use their voices to inspire or enact change — or risk being lost in a crowd of conformists. “We don’t take requests, we won’t shut up and sing,” Isbell barks, “tell the truth enough you’ll find it rhymes with everything.”
To Isbell, writing empty songs or making vacuous art is the worst one can do at this point in American history. “If your words add up to nothing then you’re making a choice, to sing a cover when we need a battle cry,” he sings before returning to the song’s final chorus of “Be afraid, be very afraid/do it anyway, do it anyway.”
“If I don’t do what I consider to be the right thing — which is speak my mind — I’m not gonna be able to sleep when I’m an old man, and I’m not gonna be able to speak to my kids about it,”in a wide-ranging interview in 2018. “I’d like to be able to say, ‘I did what I could, I did part of what I could,’ or you know, something that’s not just, ‘Well, I had records to sell, so I kept my mouth shut.
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