4 song album hit yesterday. It's a new lusten to some old songs of theirs but it's good.
Turnpike Troubadours w/Western AF
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Saw them live earlier this year when they came through with with Cody Jinks and Trampled by Turtles. Really starting to dig some of their new stuff. Lucille, The Rut, East Side Love Song, and Mean Old Sun are up there with some of the old classics for me now.
I like Cody Jinks, he's a little Jamey Johnson-ish. And Jamey Johnson's new album that came out about a month ago is probably his best ever too. Some pretty good stuff there.
I saw Oklahoma State is having an NIL concert at their stadium with Turpike and Cross Canadian Ragweed. That would be a fantastic show!
But Mississippi State and Starkville won't have such. It's too much to handle for Poor Ole Mississippi State.
Turnpike got a good amount of airtime on Yellowstone Sunday. Evan really slowed them down with that S he pulled. They were about to freakin explode before the hiatus. They may not be for the masses but they could sell out anywhere almost any size in TX/Ok.
Turnpike is puzzling to me now. Ever since they restarted their tour Evan seems to want to sing most of his songs differently (different tune and rhythm) than when they came out. I understand a little bit of it, but to do it virtually across the whole show is a bit alienating to fans. And it doesn’t sound as good. Also, whoever is mixing for their live shows is deaf. This seems to be a theme at lots of their shows lately.
I saw them at one of the first shows back in Little Rock at Simmons Bank Arena. Not sure you could fit another person in that place and it was great energy.
Man, I dunno. I've seen them twice since they started touring again. The first time was in Whitefish at the Under The Big Sky Music Festival in July of 2022 which was 3 months after they started touring again. They had a few rough moments, particularly Evan with his rhythm/pace as you mey, but overall it was a great time. Ironically they went back to Whitefish this summer for Under The Big Sky and I guarantee you they filmed Yellowstone while up there.
Fast forward to March of 2024 and they were awesome. I had only seen them one time live before they broke up (2017/18 at a casino in Oklahoma.) My wife made the comparison of Cody Jinks being like Garth and Turnpike (Evan specifically) being more like George Strait. Cody put on an amazing show and is a compelling performer like Garth. TT was more like 10,000+ people invited to a studio session. They sounded perfect like George would.
Anyhow, not sure when/where you saw them last but on 3-10-24 they were as good as they have ever been. If I could play you a video from my phone you could hear for yourself...
Yeah before the hiatus, they were always playing small venues all over DFW for like 300-500 people it seemed. Now they are putting 10,000 àsses in seats every time out. The masses definitely caught up to how good they are.
This was since March. Two opening acts put TT to shame. One song, the reverb was so bad all you heard was a droning wah wah for the first verse. They didn’t even come out for an encore. Turned the lights on before they got off the stage. Maybe they were embarrassed. Did some poking around online the next day and saw a lot of the same feedback.
Do you notice how they change the rhythm of a lot of the songs? Good Lord Lorrie and Long Hot Summer are a couple of the most pronounced examples. Huge, pet peeve of mine. Akin to famous bands only wanting to play their “new stuff.” Play what made you famous FFS.
The days of an amped up Felker sweating bullets and coming out to Mercury blaring are long gone.
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Okay. I had to look it up... Seems like I may have dodged a few bullets. Lots of people in at the Boise show in March thought it was great, but some said it was off. I It's a big arena, but we were under in mez getting tons of reverb so it sounded it great, but folks right in the middle on the floor and sides said it was flat. That's the sound engineer stuff I guess.
Here's a video of Pay no rent in Tacoma from 2 nights before... Holy crap it sucks. Like you said it sounds like an old record playing at 70% speed. Gross. None of that in Boise when I went in March.
This is Every Girl and 7 & 7 from Whitefish back in 2022. Music and sound was really good. If you watch the whole video, about halfway through 7 & 7 Evan falls flat. I thought that's what you were saying. That's just live music to me. The crap from Tacoma was horrible. Something is up for sure to be that up and down.
Trampled by Turtles and Isbell.
TT is still one of my faves, but this was the most disappointing live performance I’ve ever seen, by far.
Also in Landman… so far we have watched 4 episodes and 4 songs have been featured.
Not disagreeing with what you saw but Isbell is far from an opening act, he may have opened for them but he's a legend in the genre. If you fly American Airlines this holiday season ( good luck) check out his concert on their entertainment channel. It's pretty awesome.
Yea, I get it, one of my favs too so hopefully it was a bad night or them still gelling because the alternative sucks if he's back on the sauce.
Is that not what Hardy was? Granted, it was only one show, but he sold out The Dude.
Good points. Regardless of the “opening act” semantics, my points were that 1) TT’s poor sound quality wasn’t the fault of the venue and 2) the headliner was shown up by the preceding performers.
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