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Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell has parted ways with the veteran country-fried rockers under what bandmate Patterson Hood describes as "extremely amicable" circumstances in a statement on the band's website.

Since hopping on the Truckers' convoy mid-tour 2001, Isbell served as one of DBT's trio of axe-slingers, enjoying a place at the center of the Drive-By Truckers' well-regarded Decoration Day, The Dirty South and A Blessing and a Curse records and riding shotgun on their ceaseless roadshow. Isbell's wife Shonna Tucker, who joined the band on bass in late 2003, has expressed no plans to leave.

Isbell has a handful of solo dates in the works, and will issue his solo debut Sirens of the Ditch July 10 on New West Records. The Isbell-less Truckers will travel on through the late spring and summer.

Isbell alone:

04-08 - Iowa City, IA - The Picador
04-09 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
04-10 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre *
04-12 - Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club *
04-13 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *
04-14 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street *
04-15 - Boston, MA - Paradise *
04-18 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
04-19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls *

* with Son Volt

Drive-By dates:

04-20 Nashville, TV - Rites of Spring Festival
04-21 Mobile, AL - Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds
04-27 Athens, GA - The Georgia Theatre
04-28 Athens, GA - The Georgia Theatre
05-01 Austin, TX - Antone's
05-02 Austin, TX - Antone's
05-04 Santa Fe, NM - Lensic PAC *
05-05 Tucson, AX - Rialto Theatre *
05-06 Indio, CA - Stagecoach Festival
05-07 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05-08 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05-10 Park City, UT - Suede
05-11 Aspen, CO - Belly Up
05-12 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre & Café
05-13 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre & Café
06-21 Knoxville, TV - Sundown in the City
06-24 Athens, GA - ATHFEST
07-14 Masontown, WV - All Good Music Festival
07-19 New York, NY - Castle Clinton

* with Alejandro Escovedo