There is confirmation that street teams have been handing out Clovis during CMA Fest this week in Nashville, and two Charley Crockett semis are parked just outside of the CMA perimeter, repping the independent country star.
The project has ballooned into a 10 part, 11-hour series. Consider it like the Ken Burns Country Music documentary that ran on PBS back in 2019, but dedicated to the Outlaw country movement.
After a rigorous nomination and voting process compiling ten select songs and a host of honorable mentions, something nearing a universal consensus has centered around Song of the Year for 2025.
The end of the year and the beginning of the next is a great moment for deep reflection, house cleaning of the mind, goal setting in life, and taking advantage of being able to look forward at a new year.
After a rigorous nomination and voting process compiling ten select albums and a host of honorable mentions, something nearing a universal consensus has centered around one album in 2025.
It’s a classy move by Charley Crockett, and perhaps a vote for Charley can be seen as a vote for Turnpike as well, especially since as he rightly points out, it was the Turnpike Troubadours who seeded his career.
“Diamonds & Gasoline” has been the ever-present fuel and gem to the Turnpike Troubadours phenomenon that never tires, never gets old, will never fall out of style, and will continue to be relevant and resonant.
The interview resulted in some great revelations about Charley Crockett, answered some major criticisms that comes up regularly about him, and generally speaking, portrayed Charley as a knowledgeable guy.
What the Turnpike Troubadours have proven over time is that good songs endure, and better songs grow even better over time. There’s no mistaking it. The Turnpike Troubadours are now legends.
All indications are that the Turnpike Troubadours will be releasing a new album on April 11th called The Price of Admission. This is according to a billboard outside of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
It really is hard to come back to reality after spending three days in picturesque Whitefish, Montana, taking in the music of some of our generation’s very top talents courtesy of the Under The Big Sky Festival.
On Monday, February 19th, Wyatt Flores announced that he would be cancelling his upcoming show in Oxford, Ohio. Other upcoming shows in Detroit and Toronto will also be rescheduled to a later date.
If you know the Turnpike Troubadours, then you know Lorrie. You may have never met her, not be sure if she’s real or just a figment of songwriter and frontman Evan Felker’s imagination. But she looms large in the Turnpike Troubadours universe.
Evan Felker has gone on acoustic tours in the past, including with Rhett Miller of the Old 97s. But the primary songwriter for the Turnpike Troubadours hasn’t played a space this intimate in years.
Unlike a Song of the Year, the Single of the Year is supposed to be a jam or a ditty that gets stuck in your head. It just happens to be that the Turnpike Troubadours version of this type of song still comes with an emotional component.
The Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Charles Wesley Godwin have have all released landmark albums in 2023. They’ve decided to join forces to help kick off 2024.
The story of the Turnpike Troubadours is one of a victory, where the better angels of a bunch of friends from Tahlequah, Oklahoma refused to allow some moments of weakness and the outside noise to tear asunder something…
Watching the interview, you can feel the camaraderie among the group, and how it feels like they’re in a healthy place. This isn’t the 2010-2012 Turnpike Troubadours anymore.
It’s the wide array of influences that the Turnpike Troubadours bring to bear in their music that makes their songs feel both wholly unique and keenly familiar, often conferring a warm feeling even upon the very first listen.
Before Turnpike went on indefinite hiatus in 2019, they were doing quite well for many independent acts, but were also meandering along in the effort to really spark national attention for themselves. Now the game has completely changed.
The first observation about “Mean Old Sun” is that it’s distinctly a Turnpike Troubadours song.
The Turnpike Troubadours will release a new album called “A Cat in the Rain.” The Turnpike Troubadours will release a new album called A Cat in the Rain on August 25th. It will be their first new album since 2017.
On Friday (4-14), a new song from the band called “Mean Old Sun” populated on TouchTunes machines at bars and other locations across the United States. As Turnpike fans showed up at their favorite watering hole and went to play a Turnpike song, they noticed it.
Are the Turnpike Troubadours post hiatus truly an arena act? Down in the Ark-La-Tex, the answer has definitely been certified as “yes.” That all changes when they play Friday, May 5th at the Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C., with Old Crow Medicine Show and Lucero set to open.