Turnpike Troubadours Tease New Music for Friday (6-26)
This story has been updated.
Nobody panic. Try to look cool. But the Turnpike Troubadours are probably dropping new music on us sooner than later, and probably this Friday, June 26th according to a social media post that appears to show the band loading into a studio, and warming up for a session.
UPDATE: After numerous rumors and leaks, the band confirmed Tuesday afternoon (6-23), “‘Feelin’ Good Again’ with Sierra Hull, our cover of Robert Earl Keen’s classic song drops this Friday, June 26th on all streaming platforms.”
You see frontman Evan Felker fitting himself out with a set of earphones, “Hammerin'” Hank Early finger rolling on a banjo, Kyle Nix fiddling with his fiddle, Ryan Engleman working the frets of his unplugged Telecaster, and Gabriel Pearson recording with a tambourine. Though the setting is a little ambiguous, the outside shots of the band walking into the studio do look similar to the entrance to Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, and the Snake Mountain studios of Shooter Jennings. Shooter produced the band’s last two records.
The reason anticipation for any new Turnpike Troubadours music is so high is due to the high bar they’ve set for the rest of the country music industry with their catalog, especially their last album, 2025’s The Price of Admission, which won Saving Country Music’s Album of the Year, Song of the Year (“On The Red River,” “Heaven Passing Through”), and earned Evan Felker and the Troubadours Artist of the Year.
All the accolades have yet to earn the Turnpike Troubadours even as much as a Grammy nomination, or attention from the CMA or ACM Awards, who have been featuring more independent artists lately. Flatland Cavalry, 49 Winchester, The Red Clay Strays, and Muscadine Bloodline (who incidentally, are on tour opening for Turnpike) have all received nominations from these country institutions.
But fans don’t need any validation from awards shows to know how important even a tease for new Turnpike Troubadours music is. Right now, the only thing they’ve announced is the single. But who knows, it could be the first single from a new album, perhaps the first single to a tribute to Robert Earl Keen, or simply a standalone single. On December 9th, 2025, Evan Felker did post on Instagram, “New Record in 26? You tell me.”
But for now, froth with anticipation and be happy this week has a gift waiting for you at the end of it.
The Turnpike Troubadours will be playing the Kettlehouse Amphitheater in Bonner, Montana on Friday before headlining the Jackalope Jamboree in Pendleton, Oregon Saturday night (6-27).
June 22, 2026 @ 6:19 pm
Always grateful for anything new from my favorites. Remember when I worried I might not got anything from them again
June 22, 2026 @ 6:25 pm
It’s just a cover of “feelin good again” w/ Sierra hull
June 22, 2026 @ 6:26 pm
That sounds great!
June 22, 2026 @ 6:29 pm
Oh I’m not trying to say it won’t be great, and I guess it could still be a lead single, but I was hoping for new music of course
June 22, 2026 @ 6:44 pm
I was hoping they’d let The Price of Admission breathe and live a little longer before rushing in to a new album.
June 22, 2026 @ 8:19 pm
It’s a cover of REK’s Feeling Good Again so it might not be signifying a new album is imminent, it might just be a standalone
June 22, 2026 @ 8:56 pm
Look, I’m not going to say or not say that part of the new music is or isn’t a cover of Robert Earl Keen’s “Feeling Good Again.” But I think the folks asserting that’s all this teaser is about are being a bit presumptuous. Evan Felker said nearly seven months ago, “New Record in 26? You tell me.”
He basically was telling us there will be a new record in 2026.
June 22, 2026 @ 7:04 pm
We’ll be at Jackalope. Good lord Lorrie, that’s a stacked lineup.
June 23, 2026 @ 4:04 am
We’ll see TT later this summer in Lewiston, NY; near Niagara Falls
June 22, 2026 @ 8:20 pm
I’m here for it!
Whatever it may be, here for it.
June 22, 2026 @ 11:17 pm
How do they follow “Price of Admission”? It is sauch a good album. It is still on heavy rotation in my playlist. if there is a new music, I am sure it will be good.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:33 am
Quite easily.
June 22, 2026 @ 11:40 pm
While that scene of two of the guys in the outdoor walkway is definitely from Sunset Sound, it also appears in the Just Like Old Times video that the group did there a few months ago. While this does look like a teaser for some new music it doesn’t prove that they have been back in the studio lately.
June 23, 2026 @ 4:12 am
Also, the Turnpike Troubadours are part of Farm Aid 41 lineup being held the year at Virginia Beach September 29th.
That’s my big road trip this year (and Billy Strings in Charleston, WV). We haven’t been to a Farm Aid since 2018. Lately, we’ve been eating up the Outlaw Fest Tours which were very limited this year and Farm Aid always fell on Healing Appalachia weekend.
We’ve attended 13 Outlaw Festival concerts and my second favorite was 2021 at this Virginia Beach venue (Willie, Sturgill Simpson with the Hillbilly Avengers, Tyler Childers, Gov’t Mule, and Margo Price). This was the show I suspect Sturgill blew out his vocal cord(s) because he was really off the following night in Raleigh and would cancel the rest of his touring dates the next day. But that night in Va Beach he was spectacular and incredibly engaging and ornery. Sturgill was stationed at Newport News, VA during his time in the service and shared a few stories. The venue and people were incredible too.
The venue might seem odd for a Farm Aid, but during the drive from Va Beach to Raleigh, we saw a ton of farmland – peanuts, tobacco the majority.
June 23, 2026 @ 4:43 am
We got to see them for six songs in Asbury Park, NJ a few weeks back before the storm came in. being stand up guys they rescheduled the show for early October at the same venue.
Sadly, I hope to be in Austin that same time to visit my daughter and attend the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame show at the Hyatt, to see Lucky Oceans and Junior Brown be inducted into the Hall. Also a bunch of great young steel players performing!
June 23, 2026 @ 7:47 am
This band has been such a huge part of my life it’s really caused me to reflected and wonder how they view it.
From 2009 to now Evan’s voice has been at huge parts of my life. From drinking myself blind in Stillwater to admitting I I need to get Sober around the same time Evan did Turnpikes been there..for a long time now.
Hell my wife follows Stacy on Instagram just for the fun of it and we play Heaven Passing Through nearly every day around our soon to be one year old. I think I’ve had more wife changes than they’ve had band member changes since 2010.
Everything after the return has been a blessing I cherish. I’m glad they’re keeping at it and I’m so excited.
June 24, 2026 @ 3:04 am
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to stay unmarried?
It’s 2026, you’re allowed to have a girlfriend.
June 24, 2026 @ 7:36 am
Putting your fate in the hands of modern family counts is for suckers.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:33 am
I was hoping they and Shooter had a divorce.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:24 pm
Seems odd that they would debut a new album while still touring PoA. But I wouldn’t put it past them. Turnpike can do no wrong in my book. Taking the family to see them in Dallas on 7/4. Cannot wait.
June 23, 2026 @ 4:20 pm
The story has been updated. Likely because of all the leaks, the band has confirmed the new song is a cover of Robert Earl Keen’s “Feelin’ Good Again” with Sierra Hull. No confirmation yet if it’s from a new album, perhaps a various artists REK tribute, or is just a standalone single. Perhaps we’ll learn more Friday.
June 23, 2026 @ 4:33 pm
Maybe one day they will say hello Normal Street, goodbye Jennings…
June 23, 2026 @ 4:58 pm
Any relation to Mel Street?
June 24, 2026 @ 3:01 am
Distant cousin on halfsister’s side.
June 24, 2026 @ 8:23 am
Since Shooter Jennings produces them both, maybe the Turnpike Troubadours could put out a song featuring Charlie Crockett. I’d bet the resulting head explosions here on SCM, from fans and detractors alike, would be something to see. Unless it’s already been done, but I don’t know much about these acts.
June 24, 2026 @ 9:40 am
I saw Crockett and Turnpike in 2017.
Crockett’s trumpet player added horns to “Bossier City.” It was magnificent.
June 24, 2026 @ 1:19 pm
Charley opened 130 shows for the group in 2018 and 2019 plus he and Evan wrote a song together called Borrowed Time. Shooter just posted about the new TT song so it looks like he produced it.
June 25, 2026 @ 7:55 am
Disappointing news.
Shooter’s Turnpike output has been uneven.
June 25, 2026 @ 11:36 pm
I just was watched the video for the new song and Shooter is in it so he’s the producer. The clips of the group in the studio in LA are definitely outtakes from the Just Like Old Times video from a few months ago. It seems possible that they recorded this song at the same time so they haven’t actually been in the studio recording a whole new album.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:03 pm
Evan Felker also appears on Elizabeth Cook’s new single, “Razorwire Wall,” that was released ahead of her upcoming album. It’s been playing on XM Outlaw Country.
June 24, 2026 @ 9:01 am
That’s my least favorite thing I’ve ever heard him sing.
June 24, 2026 @ 1:20 pm
Shooter produced that one, too.
June 24, 2026 @ 7:17 am
I’m going to see them at Snow King in Jackson, WY tomorrow night. I’ll be curious if they play the Keen cover and if they mention a working on a new album during the show. Should be a great time!
June 25, 2026 @ 11:32 pm
Got home from watching Corb play just in time to see the new video drop. Turnpike has friends in high places. Looks like they are shooting their shot at airplay with this one.
June 25, 2026 @ 11:53 pm
Feelin’ Good Again. One of my favorite Robert Earl Keen songs. I was hoping for more, but any Turnpike Troubadours is good Turnpike Troubadours.
June 26, 2026 @ 9:04 am
My favorite. And “Merry Christmas From The Family”, which is silly and makes me laugh my ass off.
June 26, 2026 @ 7:36 pm
Just watched the video. It’s beautiful. Even down to the little storytelling tie-ins. Lorrie is apparently an angler.
REK looks a little worse for wear. Even at 70 he has lost some weight. I hope there’s not more to this story.
But TT blessed us again. Been watching Sierra since she ran the KET music scene events around Kentucky. She’s a gem.
June 27, 2026 @ 12:50 pm
My prediction; A covers album including the Just Like Old Times and Feelin’ Good Again tracks