ShoalsFest is back. After a two-year break, six-time Grammy winner Jason Isbell’s music festival returns to Alabama this fall.

The lineup’s potent. In addition to Jason Isbell and long-time backing band the 400 Unit, the lineup boasts Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne, indie star/Alabama native Waxahatchee and Muscle Shoals music legends Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham.

ShoalsFest 2025 will take place Oct. 11 and 12 at Florence’s McFarland Park, the riverside site of the festival’s three previous installments.

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. CT Friday at shoalsfest.com. Online prices for two-day passes start at $125.

Locally, two-day passes will be available for just $75 at Sheffield’s Rocker Gallery, address 319 N. Raleigh Ave., 12 – 6 p.m. Friday only. Limit four per customer with an Alabama driver’s license.

In a statement, Isbell says, “We couldn’t be more excited to bring back ShoalsFest for 2025. The lineup is going to be incredible, and I love having the opportunity to play a hometown show and bring world-class artists to the Shoals.”

Isbell, now 46, grew up in Green Hill and Muscle Shoals. He cut his teeth working as a house songwriter and musician at legendary FAME Studios.

Isbell went on to make a name for himself as a wunderkind singer, guitarist and songwriter with politically minded Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers. Then, after a move to Nashville, came greater accolades and fame and as a solo artist.

ShoalsFest 2025 will include an “in the round” set featuring Isbell, Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood and hit-making country songwriter Chris Tompkins, too.

Songsmiths MJ Lenderman and Garrison Starr and ecologically themed magician Steve Trash are in the festival’s initial ‘25 lineup, too. Prior editions also gave a stage to local talents like Billy Allen + The Pollies, Wanda Band and Rob Aldridge & The Proponents.

The festival launched in 2019 with Isbell headlining each year. Performers included Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, Mavis Staples, and Isbell’s then-wife Amanda Shires, the singer/songwriter and violinist.

Isbell and Shires’ much-publicized divorce was finalized this year. Isbell was previously married to bassist/singer Shonna Tucker, his then-bandmate in Drive-By Truckers.

Isbell released his latest album “Foxes in the Snow” in March. “Foxes In The Snow” is his first-ever acoustic album, and first album credited solely to “Jason Isbell” and not “Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit” in 10 years. The album cover art is by Isbell’s current girlfriend, painter Anna Weyant.

So why no ShoalsFest the past two years? Isbell’s been kind of busy. Besides touring and his annual run of shows at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Isbell released the Grammy-winning album “Weathervanes.” In 2023, he made his first notable appearance in a film, in director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

At a 2024 star-studded fundraising tribute to Jon Bon Jovi, Isbell covered Bon Jovi’s classic “Wanted Dead or Alive” while playing a double-neck guitar. That fall, Isbell performed his song “Something More Than Free” at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. There’ve also been TV appearances, including “The Daily Show” and “Tonight Show.” And an HBO documentary.

Last year, Isbell and Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard became the first musicians to be named Alabama Humanities Fellows, the highest humanities honor bestowed in the state, an honor previously given to the likes of “To Kill a Mockingbird” novelist Harper Lee.