Turnpike Troubadours

Turnpike Troubadours, the Oklahoma kings of Red Dirt music, will perform at the Rio Rancho Events Center in Rio Rancho, NM on Saturday, November 9, 2024.  Tickets will go on sale this Friday, August 2, 2024, at 10:00am MST and will be available through the Rio Rancho Events Center Box Office presented by Chalmers Ford and online at Ticketmaster.com.

Everybody loves a good comeback story. Even the ones doing the “coming back.”  After releasing five genre-defining albums and building a fiercely loyal fanbase, Turnpike Troubadours – the Tahlequah, Oklahoma, kings of Red Dirt music – all but fell apart in 2019, taking a three-year hiatus to find clarity amidst the noise of a red-hot career. But after the break, something remarkable and even unprecedented happened: the band returned more popular than ever. Not to mention stronger. The proof is in the group’s sixth studio album, A Cat in the Rain. Produced by three-time Grammy winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile’s By the Way, I Forgive You) and recorded at the legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and in Los Angeles, the 10-song album is a tale of reliability, rebirth, and redemption. It’s the story of brothers — Felker, fiddler Kyle Nix, steel player Hank Early, guitarist Ryan Engleman, bassist RC Edwards, drummer Gabe Pearson — six musicians who ran the gauntlet of success, scrutiny, and even personal troubles, and would fight tooth and nail