Corb Lund, Hayes Carll Plan “Bible on the Dash” Tour
Well hell yeah. The only thing better than Corb Lund and Hayes Carll is Corb Lund and Hayes Carll together. Coming off his recent collaboration with The Band of Heathens, Texas songwriter Hayes Carll is saddling up with Canadian country and Western legend Corb Lund for what they’re calling the “Bible on the Dash” tour, named after the duo’s 2012 song together.
Get ready for some serious song swapping, storytelling, and excellent performances revealing the inspirations behind many their songs in unique performances. No, they won’t be flipping a coin each night to choose who the headliner is. Both men will be on stage together. You might have seen Corb and Hayes separately. But this will be an opportunity to truly see them together.
For those that might not know, Corb Lund is kind of a big deal in Canada. But he can only tour the country about once a year and then the markets are tapped. So he’s always tried to saddle up with others in the United States to help spread the Canadian country Gospel, and then returns the favor when folks tour north of the border, like 49 Winchester did in 2024.
Folks up north are hoping/wondering if they’ll get this pairing in Canada too. We’ll have to wait and see, but for now the below dates are available for presale, and will go up on general sale Friday, January 17th at 9am local time.
Hayes Carll & Corb Lund Bible on the Dash Tour:
4/1 – Manchester Music Hall – Lexington, KY
4/2 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN
4/3 – Barrelhouse Ballroom – Chattanooga, TN
4/4 – Capitol Theatre – Macon, GA
4/5 – Gunter Theatre – Greenville, SC
4/6 – Booth Playhouse – Charlotte, NC
4/8 – Tin Pan – Richmond, VA
4/9 – City Winery – Philadelphia, PA
4/10 – Daryl’s House Club – Pawling, NY
4/11 – City Winery, Boston, MA
4/12 – Temple Theater – Rochester, NY
4/13 – City Winery – New York City, NY
4/15 – Stuart’s Opera House – Nelsonville, OH
4/16 – City Winery – Pittsburgh, PA
4/17 – Music Box – Cleveland, OH
4/18 – City Winery – Chicago, IL
4/19 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
4/22 – Burskirk Chumley Theater – Bloomington, IN
4/23 – Majestic Theater – Madison, WI
4/24 – Englert Theatre – Iowa City, IA
4/25 – Knuckleheads – Kansas City, MO
4/26 – City Winery – St. Louis, MO
4/27 – Chief’s – Nashville, TN
January 15, 2025 @ 7:37 pm
Not a City Winery fan. Especially for this kind of show. Some of these other venues look suspect too (for a road trip). Except Knuckleheads – I know that’s a good venue.
January 15, 2025 @ 7:54 pm
What’s wrong with City Winery? Never been to one so I’m genuinely just asking. Knuckleheads is one of my favorite places on earth. 👍
January 15, 2025 @ 7:59 pm
It’s the chain of concert venues like a really expensive Applebees that’s more worried about branding than the concert experience. It’s expensive and too stuffy for me.
If you liked seeing a show at Hard Rock, you might like City Winery.
January 15, 2025 @ 8:33 pm
I both agree and disagree with hoptowntiger on this.
I agree that City Winery is a whip, at least the one in Nashville is. It’s full of tables, and they sit you down and serve you like at a restaurant with no real open space to dance or even stand. It’s an upscale atmosphere that’s not really conducive to country or gritty music.
That said, for a tour like this if it’s going to be mostly acoustic with the two on stools, City Winery would work better than it does for other tour packages.
January 16, 2025 @ 1:56 am
I saw Billy Joe Shaver at the City Winery just over 10 years ago, in December 2014. It was a good show and a good place, though like everything else that become a chain, they’re always looking to commodify the product and present it with ever-more efficiency and ever-less spontaneity, no doubt.
January 16, 2025 @ 12:10 pm
It’s been close to ten years, but I enjoyed the shows I saw at City Winery. At least you know it’ll be quiet
January 16, 2025 @ 6:34 am
I saw Josh Ritter at City Winery in Pittsburgh last year and I thought it was a nice venue.
Got tickets for this tour at Music Box Supper Club which has a similar atmosphere to City Winery and MBSC is one of my favorite venues here in Cleveland,
January 16, 2025 @ 9:47 am
As another knock on City Winery, they announced (at least in Pittsburgh), that a $25 minimum would be required, in addition to the ticket price beginning with all newly announced shows.
January 16, 2025 @ 10:27 am
Yeah … are you a supper club or a music venue? And constantly dodging the waitresses is more a distraction/ obstacle than drunken fans or fans with phones. I’m a stander and concerts. When you are assigned a seat you are stuck with the asshole (willing admitting I’m usually the asshole). GA/ PIT/ LAWN, you move to the left, move to the right and problem solved.
Since you mentioned Pittsburgh, my worst experience in a place like City Winery was that Jergel’s. We went a disastrous Steve Earle show there a few years ago (pre pandemic). That place is the worst. The diners on the first floor were seated around the perimeter of the dance floor where us GA people were standing. So our assess were in the face of the seated diners. We were constantly dodging the waitresses and the fried food smell was making me sick. Not a good vibe. I live south of the city, so traveling up to Warrendale was a one time experience.
January 16, 2025 @ 10:59 am
It’s the same reason I tend to avoid shows at The Improv. I would check out Bottlerocket Social Hall for some events though. I’ve gone to many comedy shows there and if it were more convenient I would go to more concerts as well. But they do country nights pretty regularly and I think the music shows are mostly standing/GA. Crowd tends to skew younger but I’m late 30s and it’s my favorite venue in town. I can’t vouch for the music portion but I read they recently upgraded their sound system to better accommodate live music.
January 21, 2025 @ 9:35 am
Agree, only been to the one in STL and not too impressed with the venue.
Still going because these 2 dudes are fun.
January 15, 2025 @ 8:25 pm
Well, this is extremely cool news.
January 15, 2025 @ 10:40 pm
This is too Western not to come west.
January 16, 2025 @ 12:54 am
It’s crowded and not very comfortable but to see the artists I like it ok. Love hayes call and it’s fine and not outrageously expensive very affordable!, Can’t wait to see him again in april
January 16, 2025 @ 7:47 am
Two of my favorites, so I’m in. I assume this will be the same format and vibe as the Hayes Carll/Brent Cobb tour from a couple of years ago. Kind of surprised they are driving past the Birchmere without playing a date there, but I’ll figure something out.
January 16, 2025 @ 8:20 am
Really excited for this. I got tickets to the one in Boston
January 16, 2025 @ 8:34 am
City Winery was strict on masks/the shot. Never was interested in attending a show there.
January 16, 2025 @ 9:41 am
Trigger – have you ever written about the behind the scenes process of tour managers and management picking cities and venues for tours? It’s easy to get frustrated when it feels like your favorite artists never has your state included in their tour schedule, but would love to have a better idea of the nuances behind it all.
That said, I wish Hayes was rollin’ through Arizona.
January 16, 2025 @ 9:52 am
follow up question to King Binky Martinez (all hail) – i know Austin is a tough market, but it seems like more and more artists are skipping Austin as a tour stop entirely. Have you noticed this Trig / have any insight?
Waiting for jeremy pinnells glorious return to the White Horse. this is because he rips
January 16, 2025 @ 10:36 am
I feel like everyone feels left out when tour dates are announced and there’s not one in their area. That’s just sort of the nature of the beast. Tours get booked around anchor markets where artists know they’re going to do well, and trying to open up new markets where they have either never gone before, or don’t draw well in for whatever reason. Radio actually plays a role in all of this, believe it or not, though a diminishing one. Artists also try to visit places they know they haven’t been for a while. But when you have a tour like this with two artists, they’re just trying to optimize the experience for everyone. If it works out, I wouldn’t be surprised if they go out again and hit new cities. That’s what Hayes did with Band of Heathens.
Really pulling the curtain back, a tour like this is possible probably because Hayes either doesn’t want to pay a band, or can’t pay a band, and Corb continues to try and build up touring in the United States. I alluded to this in the article, but I talked to a Canadian tour manager a while back, and he said Corb is a huge draw north of the border, while he struggles to fill clubs in the US. This tour pairing is probably a booking agent trying to solve these two problems for these two artists, and make a financially successful tour.
January 16, 2025 @ 12:17 pm
For Texas/Red Dirt artists, I think a lot of times, booking agents/tour managers would do well to reach out to big fans for suggestions in markets they are unfamiliar with.
Prime example: Back in August, Josh Ward had a show at PBR in the 4th Street Live! entertainment district in Louisville. Now that’s a 10 minute drive for me and it was a Thursday night, so it worked out well, but there weren’t 20 people at the show and I’m sure they lost their ass. Had they booked Zanzibar, I’m sure they’d have at least drawn 50. Had he booked a show in Lexington at The Burl, he probably would’ve drawn 100~150 or more (Jake Worthington did the next night). He could have done a show in Madison, IN and drawn close to that. His booking person just saw Louisville, tourist trap and said let’s do it, even though there is no independent country music scene in Louisville to speak of and most folks that like this kind of music hate that venue/complex.
January 16, 2025 @ 1:56 pm
Cedar Cultural Center (MPLS MN show) is about 650 standing, but this show is being sold seated. Hayes + Band played to a pretty full standing crowd for the What It Is album. Also played the Varsity (950) a few years before that. Seen Corb in MN in the past few years at 7th Street Entry (250) and Turf Club (350). As mentioned by others, he puts on a great live show.
January 17, 2025 @ 3:22 am
Hayes and Corb seem to have a more urban/collegiatenorthern orientation than the typical country or even Americana artitst–at least from the one-month tour schedule shown:
Philadelphia, Rochester, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Bloomington,Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago, Madison, and even the dreaded (by many) Boston and Midtown Manhattan, New York City–would not have guessed that it’s a country tour at all.
January 16, 2025 @ 12:48 pm
I saw Hayes open for Corb in Vancouver. Two shows. The last show was the final stop on the tour as Corb likes Vancouver to be. They swapped songs on the encore was Seven Spanish Angels. Corb is REALLY great. I’ve seen him more than 10 times. He’s a storyteller.
January 16, 2025 @ 2:57 pm
Soooooooo wish you were coming to Winnipeg Canada …any chance you can make a side trip to Times Change???
January 17, 2025 @ 6:44 am
I love both Hayes and Corb (I think I have just about all of their albums) and haven’t seen them enough for my liking (twice for Hayes and only once for Corb). Both are absolutely great live and I would imagine seeing them on stage together would be off the charts. However, closest show is Richmond on a Tuesday, which would mean a rough 90 mile commute down I-95 during rush hour and passing through Fredericksburg, which always seems to suck (not the city, which I like. just the drive). To paraphrase Danny Glover, I think I might be getting too old for that shit.
January 17, 2025 @ 7:54 am
: D You’re not too old – Go.
Shooting for the Bloomington gig.
And possibly, one other location.
This is why want Trig to activate a tip jar. So we can help him get around. Keep him fresh and up to date.
If he didn’t post Really cool things like Corb and Hayes, how would we know?
A million thanks again to Trevistrat, and Corncaster.
You know why
January 19, 2025 @ 4:05 pm
Enjoy the music of both but have never seen either in person. I can only imagine that having them together on stage would be something similar to Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett. I’m sure the storytelling will rival the songs.
January 22, 2025 @ 7:09 am
No Texas dates? F’n lame Hayes.