Turnpike Troubadours & Friends Rock the Whitewater Amphitheater

The Whitewater Amphitheater in beautiful New Braunfels, TX was treated to a show by Canadian country artist Corb Lund, second generation country artist Shooter Jennings, and top shelf Texas and Red Dirt country headliners The Turnpike Troubadours on Saturday, July 28th. Despite the oppressive Texas heat, the venue was filled to capacity, and fans were served a raucous show.
Corb Lund, who is from the cattle ranching region of Alberta, is currently on a rare Texas-centric stint as part of his bigger Western Destinations Tour, giving his fans in the Western United States an opportunity to see him first hand. Lund has been considered an honorary member of the Texas scene for years, and along with his opening set, also made an appearance with the Turnpike Troubadours to sing “Long Hot Summer Day” later in the show.
Shooter Jennings is getting warmed up for the release of his latest record called Shooter out August 10th, which is said to be a return to his country roots. Now being booked by Texas-centric agency Red 11, he’s also been seen much more in the Texoma touring circuit over the last couple of years.
Along with their mosty well-recognized hits such as “7&7,” “Good Lord Lorrie,” and new songs such as “The Tornado Warning,” the Turnpike Troubadours set also featured a stripped down moment where front man Evan Felker sang “Diamonds & Gasoline” accompanied by Turnpike’s newest permanent member, “Hammerin'” Hank Early on dobro. Bass player RC Edwards also got a chance to lead the band on the song “Get Drunk, Get High, Get Loud.” Turnpike encored with “Something To Hold Onto” and “Long Drive Home.”
Thanks to photographer Brad Coolidge for the below photos. Brad can can be found on Instagram and Twitter.







July 30, 2018 @ 12:18 pm
Guys I’m wanting to get into The Turnpike Troubadours, and I like some of what I’ve heard, but I’d like to hear some of your suggestions on which songs of theirs to try. With Jamey Johnson not releasing music, Cody Jinks, Sturgill, Stapleton, and Eric Church (sorry not sorry) are some of the only new guys I listen to and I need more.
July 30, 2018 @ 12:45 pm
I’m glad you asked!
The best songs to stop you in your tracks and make you listen up:
-7&7
-Good Lord Lorrie
-The Funeral
Uptempo jams:
-Long Hot Summer Day
-Before the Devil Knows We’re Dead
-Something to Hold Onto
-A Tornado Warning
Pour an evening glass of whiskey, turn it up and listen to the lyrics:
-Diamonds and Gasoline
-Pay No Rent
-Fall Out of Love
-Old Time Feeling (Like Before)
July 31, 2018 @ 4:33 am
I would add Emty as a Drum to the pour a glass of whiskey and listen to the lyrics list. It’s probably n my top 3, though it’s hard to narrow down to a few favorites when they have so damn many great songs.
August 1, 2018 @ 3:41 am
And for barreling down the road with the windows down…
Pipe Bomb Dream.
The steel solo at the end has resulted in my steering wheel taking many a beatdown!
July 30, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
I’m a big fan of the Turnpike Troubadours. They are the total package. Great songwriting and musicianship and simply one of the best Country Music groups going today in my opinion. My favorite songs are “The Birdhunters”, “The Housefire” (from the new album), “7 & 7”, “Every Girl”, and “Wrecked”… but I would honestly be hard pressed to try to name a bad one. Ja They are just a great Country band and a lot of fun to see live.
July 30, 2018 @ 12:54 pm
In my opinion, it’s difficult to go wrong. The first song I heard by them was “Good Lord Lorrie”. I bought Goodbye Normal Street (album) and have since purchased their back catalog and each album since. Their latest album is incredible, start to finish. I’ve seen them live once, and I have tickets to see them again in Atlanta in October. It can’t get here fast enough. It sounds as though we like a lot of the same artists, even EC, so hope this is helpful.
July 30, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
The Housefire, The Birdhunters, Pay No Rent, Diamonds and Gasoline, Gin, Smoke and Lies, Long Hot Summer Days, to name a few. All their albums are good but their latest A Long Way from Your Heart is probably the best so.
July 30, 2018 @ 4:06 pm
You cannot go wrong with these guys. The Funeral (I wish they would play this one live!), 7&7, Every Girl, Good Lord Lorrie, Kansas City Southern, Tornado Warning, Whole Damn Town, Easton & Main. It is all good.
July 30, 2018 @ 4:07 pm
You cannot go wrong with these guys. The Funeral (I wish they would play this one live!), 7&7, Every Girl, Good Lord Lorrie, Kansas City Southern, Tornado Warning, Whole Damn Town, Easton & Main, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. It is all good
July 30, 2018 @ 7:20 pm
If you only ever play one song from Turnpike, it should be The Bird Hunters.
Otherwise, A Tornado Warning, Easton & Main, Long Hot Summer Day, Shreveport, Down on Washington, Before the Devil Knows We Are Dead, Morgan Street, Diamonds and Gasoline, Whole Damn Town, Every Girl, Blue Star, Good Lord Lorrie, The Mercury, Bossier City, Winding Stair Mountain Blues, Kansas City Southern, Evangeline, Oklahoma Stars, Pipe Bomb Dream, Pay No Rent for starters.
Never got into 7 & 7 like everyone else.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:18 pm
1968
July 30, 2018 @ 7:22 pm
Don’t apologise for liking Eric Church. He is badass.
July 30, 2018 @ 8:03 pm
“Another Bender Might Break Me”
“One Way Track Marks”
“Bastard Child”
“Gettin’ High and Hitting’ New Lows”
“Too Broke to Overdose”
July 31, 2018 @ 11:35 am
I see what you did here. Well played!
July 31, 2018 @ 3:56 am
Randall King, Tyler Childers, Colter Wall
That’ll learn ya.
July 31, 2018 @ 5:00 am
Forgot about Tyler Childers, I’m already a big fan of his.
July 31, 2018 @ 5:46 am
My personal favorites:
7&7
Every Girl
A Tornado Warning
The Bird Hunters
Gin, Smoke, and Lies
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
The Winding Stair Mountain Blues
July 31, 2018 @ 8:33 am
I’ve been palying Sunday Morning Paper on the jukebox a bit lately.
July 30, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
Really trying hard to separate the music from the person (Evan) here with this band. Still love their music and sound….and forcing myself to look away at the newsstand gossip.
July 31, 2018 @ 12:40 am
i understand this so much. it has been a bit tough for me too. but that stuff happens. it’s very unfortunate. but a lot of our old-school favorites made similar mistakes. it’s a bummer. still an extremely talented group of musicians.
July 31, 2018 @ 3:57 am
What’s your problem with him?
July 31, 2018 @ 4:51 am
Someone they have never met had an affair with another famous that they have also never met and it effects their life in some profound way.
July 31, 2018 @ 5:04 am
I was hoping that’s not what it was.
July 31, 2018 @ 7:18 am
Doesn’t affect my life in the slightest…but it sucks when a band you liked all of a sudden has a scandal attached to them and he’s referred to as “Miranda Lambert’s married boyfriend”…not what he should be referred to in the masses but alas this is what it will be. At least they are getting more notoriety I suppose.
July 31, 2018 @ 4:43 am
If we didn’t listen to artists who made questionable personal choices, we wouldn’t have much to listen to!
Hell, I wouldn’t be able to even listen to myself sing in the car!
July 30, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
Pick a CD, any CD…
July 30, 2018 @ 1:18 pm
Troubadours are badass, need to give corb another listen, and shooter has always sucked.
July 30, 2018 @ 1:20 pm
Fast horses and good hideouts is like listening to someone scratching a chalkboard
July 30, 2018 @ 2:59 pm
Evangeline, Bossier City, Before the Devil Knows We’re Dead.
July 30, 2018 @ 3:26 pm
Absolutely awesome! Never heard of them until recently. Now a fan! Can’t wait to see them in person.
July 30, 2018 @ 3:51 pm
Unrung, Easton and Main, The Mercury, Call A Spade A Spade, The Next Waltz-Come As You Are. Every song from TPT is so good.
July 30, 2018 @ 3:53 pm
Mr Lambert is looking good
July 31, 2018 @ 7:24 am
So is Ms.
July 30, 2018 @ 4:35 pm
GREAT.
July 30, 2018 @ 4:51 pm
I was there for this concert. First time at the venue and it was great. Corb Lund rocked, but didn’t care for Shooter. Turnpike started out amazing (even though they never did “The Mercury”)! But their encore was just strange in my opinion. They came back out to two slower songs (I believe one was Long Drive Home and the other was a cover that the name of has slipped my mind at the moment) and then just walked off stage. It was kind of a let down for me. Especially after American Aquarium the night before at Gruene. BJ shut it down loud and raucous and graciously.
July 31, 2018 @ 7:44 am
I looked up their setlists and I’m sad they don’t play The Mercury. My husband does not like most music I like, but I played him these guys and he likes them enough that he talked me into driving 6 hours each way to see them this fall. The Mercury is his favorite. But oh well. Plenty of good tunes to look forward to!
July 30, 2018 @ 5:19 pm
Shooter Jennings returning to his roots? Why did he leave and why is he returning? I saw him at Main Street Crossing in Tomball and all he did was holler and beat his guitar to death and didn’t hang around after the show- he came across as a jerk, he can’t sing, and he ain’t country when he does. If I had been at this deal I’d took a piss break while he was on stage. Did I mention I don’t like Shooter Jennings?
July 30, 2018 @ 6:10 pm
The only Jennings that matters-
The Lost Outlaw Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kroR8OzDnHQ
July 30, 2018 @ 6:43 pm
Whitewater is a beautiful venue in a beautiful part of Texas. Too bad it’s a nine hour drive away.
July 30, 2018 @ 7:15 pm
Love Turnpike but I am not a fan of RC’s song. It is just so beneath them.
July 30, 2018 @ 7:36 pm
I wasn’t there, but I’ve been at other shows when RC has done that song, or a similar one, and it wrecks the momentum and sucks the air out of the place. I imagine they have a good reason for doing it, but I sure don’t know what it is.
July 31, 2018 @ 7:54 am
Yeah, I saw them in Philly and RC sang the song. The place went from rocking to confused silence. I mean, the Johnny Football part was amusing. But it is the type of song that is clever for your typical Nashville singer. I am glad they haven’t placed it on a CD. Keep it in concert.
RC sings it when Evan has his break so it must be RC’s vehicle for notoriety.
July 30, 2018 @ 7:26 pm
The Bird Hunters. I love everything they’ve done, but am not sure I can think of any band that has one song that better summarizes everything that is great about them as does this song about the TTs.
July 31, 2018 @ 7:56 am
You are the smartest poster here.
That song never gets old. Every part of it is perfect.
July 30, 2018 @ 7:34 pm
Their albums are great but they really shine live …. as long as EF is sober that is, which to his credit hasn’t seemed to be an issue lately. Keep it up boys!
July 30, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
TPT are currently the standard.
Corb Lund is my hero.
July 30, 2018 @ 8:17 pm
Any Miranda sightings? And was Felker drunk?
July 31, 2018 @ 3:45 am
Miranda was there with her parents I believe according to her Instagram page ????
July 31, 2018 @ 10:20 am
Miranda has been seen at TPT shows. Evan’s sister posted that he is happier and healthier than he has been in years.
July 30, 2018 @ 9:15 pm
Has Corb Lund changed. I think I checked him out several years ago and he was the one that had several songs about being a horse veterinarian and I was not very impressed. I do love Turnpikes music though.
July 31, 2018 @ 6:03 am
Corb has exactly 2 songs about being a horse vet, not sure if that qualifies as several. If you’re really interested in giving him a second chance check out these songs for a range of tempos and seriousness;
Truth Comes Out
Short Native Grasses
I Wanna be in the Cavalry (and the Reprise for a different take on war)
Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier
Bible in the Dash
Devils Beat Dress
Pour em Kinda Strong
If ya still don’t like him ya ain’t gonna and you can move on.
August 1, 2018 @ 12:26 pm
My favorite Corb song is cows around!
July 30, 2018 @ 10:44 pm
Brad Coolidge really knows how to capture a moment. His photos augment Trigger’s words well, IMO.
July 31, 2018 @ 5:13 am
If there were any justice in the world, these guys would be the masters of country radio and sweeping the CMAs year after year.
I’ve been saying it for 3 years now: hands down, they are the best country act–solo or band–in all of America. Yes, I am completely biased. come at me.
July 31, 2018 @ 8:31 am
Most of their songs, especially the new album, are more rock than country (yes there are exceptions in some of their older work), which isn’t a bad thing in and of itself…it’s just a fact. But, I don’t think it’s fair to compare what they do to the more traditional country acts out there. I do agree that it would be great to see them sweeping the CMA’s vs. the Sam Hunts of the world.
July 31, 2018 @ 6:03 am
I regret not going but it was too damn hot to be surounded by a bunch of other sweaty drunk bodies.
July 31, 2018 @ 6:33 am
Great line-up, I’m still waiting for my chance to catch the Troubadors live. Hopefully Jennings’ promise of a “return to his country roots” is legitimate and not just hype.