Drive-By Truckers Announce 'Southern Rock Opera' Tour

03-21-2024

() Drive-By Truckers have announced that they will launching a North American tour this summer and fall to celebrate their landmark third studio album, "Southern Rock Opera".

The Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 Tour - will see Drive-By Truckers performing the acclaimed 2001 album along with fan favorites and other songs from across their classic canon - gets underway June 7 at Indianapolis, IN's Egyptian Room at Old National Centre and then continues into early July.

The headline run will resume October 16 at Washington, DC's Warner Theatre and then travel through a very special tour finale set for November 24 at Nashville, TN's historic Ryman Auditorium. Highlights include two-night stands at San Francisco, CA's The Fillmore (June 28-29), Minneapolis, MN's Uptown Theater (October 25-26), Chicago, IL's House of Blues (November 1-2), and Asheville, NC's The Orange Peel (November 7-8).

Patterson Hood shared, "DBT is thrilled to announce The Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 Tour. It's been 23 years since the release of the album that drastically changed our lives and 22 years since we performed it (more or less) straight through in near entirety. We'll be hitting the road, Three Guitars blazing, and telling y'all a story. It's an album we spent years writing and learning to play and then recording (in the upstairs of a uniform shop in downtown Birmingham AL). It was initially released on 9/11/2001 (and later reissued by Lost Highway in the summer of 2002).

"A lot has happened in the decades since it came out, both to the band and to the world we live in. We feel that the record, while somewhat timeless, also has a current timeliness to it considering the social and political issues of today. Instead of performing it as if it's still 2000AD, we want to make it our own, reflecting who we all are now in 2024. It's going to be intense, but also a hell of a lot of fun and this time we're offering a very special Southern Rock Opera Revisited VIP Experience that includes a soundcheck party and some special SRO Revisited limited edition items. VIP tickets are on sale starting today!

"We'll be playing songs from the original release, plus a small handful of songs that pertain to its themes and points of view, plus a short encore set that will be different each night. It'll be a different and very special show, and very likely the last time we'll ever do it so DON'T MISS IT! DBT-Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 Tour.

"'It ain't about the past.
"See you at the Rock Show!"

JUNE
7 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
8 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
9 - Louisville, KY - Mercury Ballroom
10 - Henrico, VA - Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens*
13 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz
14 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore Charlotte
15 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City
16 - New Orleans, LA - The Civic Theatre
19 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
20 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at the Moody Theater
21 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
23 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
26 - El Cajon, CA - The Magnolia
27 - Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco
28 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
29 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore

JULY
1 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
2 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
5 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
6 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium

OCTOBER
16 - Washington, DC - Warner Theatre
17 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
18 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
19 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
22 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
23 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
25 - Minneapolis, MN - Uptown Theater
26 - Minneapolis, MN - Uptown Theater
27 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee
29 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom
30 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater

NOVEMBER
1 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
2 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
3 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
5 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
7 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
8 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
9 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
24 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium