“Cast Iron Skillet.” “Volunteer.” “Death Wish.” “The King of Oklahoma.” “White Beretta.” “The Letter J.”

Those phrases definitely scan like new Jason Isbell song titles. In a new video Isbell shared on social media today, they’re labeled above a mixing console and shown in a camera shot among a montage of slow-mo images of Isbell and his backing band, The 400 Unit, working in the studio. The video is narrated by ESPN’s Wright Thompson.

“Isbell is a storyteller at the peak of his craft,” Thompson says, in a high-cholesterol Southern accent that will sound familiar to “College Football GameDay” viewers. “Observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside himself and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two and stops equally four once you reach a certain age and carry a certain amount of scars.”

The video doesn’t reveal the title of Isbell’s upcoming album, which will be the Grammy-winning roots/rock artist’s seventh studio album. Or a release date, other than it will come out this year.

However, in addition to the above likely song titles, the video hints at lyrical themes, a big deal for Isbell’s fans, many of which are drawn equally by his novelist-like lyrics as much as his supple vocals and Allman-esque guitaring. As Thompson describes it in the video, “Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played by grown-ass people.” You can watch the video below.

Isbell’s last true studio album was 2020′s “Reunions.” In 2021, he dropped the charity covers album “Georgia Blue.” Isbell was born in Florence, grew up in Greenhill and is a former Muscle Shoals resident. His signature solo songs include “Cover Me Up” and “24 Frames.” He’s also known for his time with Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, to which he contributed now-classic tunes like “Outfit” and “Goddamn Lonely Love.”

For years, Isbell, wife Amanda Shires, also an acclaimed singer/songwriter, and their daughter Mercy have resided in the Nashville area. Isbell and Shires were recently named Record Store Day Ambassadors for 2023.

This year is shaping up to be a notable one for Isbell. He’s set to make his major motion picture debut in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside movie stars like Leonard DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.