The quickest way to get tickets for Jason Isbell’s Oct. 27 Orion Amphitheater concert is to go watch Jason Isbell this Thursday night at Orion Amphitheater. Nope, Isbell won’t be there in-person Thursday in Huntsville. But the recent documentary film about the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, titled “Running With Our Eyes Closed,” is screening there as part of a double-feature, also including 2013 music doc “Muscle Shoals.”

Officially, tickets for Isbell’s Oct. 27 concert go on sale 10 a.m. Friday. Tickets are $50 – $100 (plus fees) via axs.com. But they’ll be available a day early at the venue’s north box office, 6 – 10:15 p.m. Thursday, as a tie-in with the documentary screenings, which start at sundown. The films are shown outdoors on a big screen on the amphitheater’s “artist lawn meadow,” as part of Orion’s free summer “Movies in the Meadow” series.

Support acts for Isbell’s upcoming Orion concert definitely add value: Outlaw-country goddess Margo Price and talented Muscle Shoals R&B/rock combo Billy Allen and The Pollies.

The concert’s being promoted as “Shoals Fest Presents,” a reference to the music festival Isbell, an Alabama native and former Muscle Shoals resident, has hosted thrice in Florence, about a 70-minute drive from Huntsville. Isbell has put his fest on pause for the time being. But he’s plenty busy.

The Orion concert falls a week after “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the Martin Scorsese-directed film adaptation of the best-selling true-crime book of the same name, opens in theaters. The film features Isbell’s first major film role – sharing screen time with movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

In June, Isbell released his eighth proper studio album, “Weathervanes.” It’s his best LP yet, and that’s saying something. Every album he’s dropped beginning with 2013′s “Southeastern” has further etched him as the best lyricist of his generation. Isbell’s signature solo songs include 2013′s “Cover Me Up,” which has been streamed around 60 million times on Spotify. Prior to his solo career, Isbell was a member of political-rock band Drive-By Truckers.

Isbell’s longtime backing band The 400 Unit includes two more Alabama natives: Tuscumbia’s Chad Gamble on drums and Sheffield’s Jimbo Hart on bass. Guitarist Sadler Vaden and keyboardist Derry deBorja complete the band’s core lineup. Recently, Isbell has brought multi-instrumentalist Will Johnson aboard as a touring musician.

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