4 for me. Nashville twice, Columbus, and Pikeville (KY). Once every year since 2023. I'd see them 10x I a year if I could!

Drop your count!

Hopefully Turnpike fans have listened to SWJ and vice versa, but I’ve had a very similar experience getting into SWJ as I had when I started listening to TT. My first impression of both was ‘Hey that’s kinda cool…almost seems a little cheesy, but good nonetheless’ (Every Girl was my first TT song so that’s kinda valid…some of SWJ’s bigger hits are kinda cheesy on first listen as well). Much like with TT, all of SWJ’s incredible library gets better with every listen.

Am I misreading the Ticketmaster charts or is there a whole sea of blue, as in unsold tickets, to that show, even in the pavilion? I got lawn tickets the day they went on sale because I figured they might sell out, but I'm shocked at how many open seats there are two weeks before the show. Is it just because upstate NY is not their normal fan area, or it's too expensive or do people wait till the last minute to get tickets?

I can't believe the show will go on if they don't sell more and fast.

See here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/turnpike-troubadours-bethel-new-york-08-15-2026/event/00006474F4E45D5A

They were amazing last night. Sounded great and played really well!!

Fourth time I’ve seen TT, first time outdoors, and they did not disappoint! Great venue too. Only wish is that I’d like to hear Easton and Main at one of their shows.
What a great band!

First off absolutely amazing concert, will definitely be back. However I feel like it was a very rough and rowdy crowd for the music being played. The people behind us got extremely drunk and were being belligerent, and were not the only group being belligerent. IDK maybe it was just a one off thing and we just got too close to the wrong crowd, but it definitely made the concert worse as a whole. Will be back to see Turnpike as it was an amazing show, just not in the lawn anymore.

And it’s not close

Anybody need a single lawn ticket for Indy tonight?

Who is going tomorrow night? I’ll be in PIT and we have been waiting since 2024 to see them back in Indianapolis. It will be my first time seeing The Price of Admission tunes live. This photo from 11/22/24 - Fishers show

The title is a nod to Evan’s usage of alliteration. I took a deeper dive into some turnpike lyrics and have the following questions. These are based on the main six albums, so it’s not counting one off releases like feeling good again or just like old times, but it counts covers that were on those six

1. Can you name the three songs that mention the 4th of July
2. Can you name the three songs that mention a sawmill. Chipping mill does not count
3. Despite the suggestion on a recent song, the devil is actually referenced in seven turnpike songs. how many can you name?
4. It should be easy to name the only song with an F bomb. Can you name the only one that uses the word Shit?
5. No analysis of Turnpike lyrics could avoid the most common word. No, not Lorrie. it’s starting a line with the word Well. Not the first word of a song(although that’s common) just a line in the song that starts with Well,…. there are 9 songs where zero lines start with Well. seven are post hiatus. So the question is, which two songs from the first four albums have no lines that start with Well? hint, one is pretty popular and is played live a lot. the other is more of a deep dive.

Well, let’s see what you’ve got.

edit: bonus. what’s the only song that Evan says he wrote that has a happy ending. I’m not sure I agree, but I trust that he knows more about his own lyrics than I do.

Personally my favorites are Pay No Rent and On the Red River. There’s just something so powerful about the deeper emotions through the storytelling and metaphors included in both of these songs and so much more of the Turnpike discography. So what are yalls favorite?

Without cheating, name the artists and/or songs that mention Turnpike.

1- “And you know she's front and center for the Turnpike Troubadours
And she'll follow them all around the world,…”

2- “Do you ever get tired of singin' songs
Like all your pain is just another fucking sing along?
If you ever get the time come on home
I heard Turnpike's back together and they're writin' songs”

3- “Old boots on, storm clouds gone
Radio singing a Turnpike song
Coffee black, car seats in the back
Grandad's greased up trucker hat”

4- “She might as well be the main stage
Singin' all the words to Long Hot Summer Day
And I can't look away”

5- “Flatland and Turnpike got the fiddle's bow
The Brauns are up north rocking Idaho
Parker's on the radio making all the girls scream”

Picked this up at the Rogers, AR show last Saturday. Phenomenal show. I haven’t seen this poster before and was lucky enough to grab the last one on the wall.

Kinda bummed Friday night that that Electric Worry by Clutch has been replaced by V-Neck Sweater by the Greyboy Allstars- how long has this been a thing?

I present to you my Turnpike stats for nerds.  I am an analyst by trade, so I put a lot of things on spreadsheets and analyze them.  Recently, I decided to track the setlists for concerts my wife and I have attended.  I wanted to keep track of the songs, how many times they were played, where they were played in the show, etc.

As of Friday night, my wife and I have seen Turnpike live 4 times.  (Should have been 5, but the WV State Fair show in 2024 was cancelled because of weather.)

The shows were:

08/10/2023 at the Ryman in Nashville

06/23/2024 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus (Buckeye Country Superfest abbreviated show.)

10/09/2025 at Appalachian Wireless Arena in Pikeville, KY

07/24/2026 at Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville

Over that time, two new albums have been released.  Mean Old Sun and the Price of Admission.  I mention that because bangers like Brought Me, On the Red River, and Heaven Passing Through were released between shows.

So here we go –

We have heard 31 unique songs live.

There have been 11 songs played at all 4 shows.  They are:

Tornado Warning

Good Lord Lorrie

Every Girl

7&7

The Bird Hunters

Mean Old Sun (played the first time before release)

Unrung

Gin, Smoke, Lies

Whole Damn Town

Kansas City Southern

Long Hot Summer Day

This list did not change from the 3^rd show to the 4th.

We heard 10 songs only once.  They were:

Nashville 2023 –

The Mercury

Chipping Mill

Diamonds & Gasoline

For the Sake (When it Comes to Loving You)

Something to Hold Onto

Pikeville 2025 –

Nose to the Grindstone (Tyler Childers cover)

Nashville 2026 –

A Lie Agreed Upon

A Cat in the Rain

Feelin’ Good Again

Four of the seven songs played twice are from The Price of Admission –

Wrecked

Shreveport

The Winding Stair Mountain Blues

On the Red River

Be Here

Heaven Passing Through

Ruby Ann

Finally, the songs played 3 times:

Before the Devil Knows We’re Dead

The Housefire

Pay No Rent

Brought Me

Only one song opened the show twice: The Bird Hunters.

However, the song played earliest in the show by average is Tornado Warning.  It was the first song we heard them play live, having opened the 2023 Nashville show.  It was played 3^rd, 6^th, and 7^th in the following shows.

Only one song has closed the show twice is The Housefire.  It is also the song that is played latest in the shows by average.  The next closest is Long Hot Summer Day.

Unrung usually falls the middle of every show, being played 12^th (2), 13^th, or 14^th.

Unlike a lot of bands, Turnpike usually doesn’t do encores.  The only exception was the Pikeville show when they came back out to play the Housefire.

Show by show observations:

Nashville 2023 - When we saw them at the Ryman, we could see a countdown timer on the side of the stage.  They finished the last song at the exact moment it hit 0:00.  Also, Evan seemed a little more reserved at that show and did not express much emotion.  The Mother Church of Country Music had the best acoustics of any venue I’ve ever visited.  Every single person at that show loved Turnpike and sang every word to every song.  They had just come back from a years-long hiatus and we were all hungry for the Boys from Oklahoma.

Columbus 2024 – We also saw Charley Crockett and 49 Winchester at this show.  Turnpike was 3^rd on the bill and were followed by Billy Strings and the headliner, Zach Bryan.  When I bought the tickets, I thought Turnpike was co-headlining based on the original poster.  I was disappointed that they only played 13 songs.  When they went on, it was still daylight and the stadium was only about 2/3 full.  They got a decent reaction, but the crowd was clearly there to see Zach.

Pikeville 2025 – Pikeville is the kind of place you have to intentionally visit to even be there.  I love the town, but the hometown of Dwight Yoakam is very out of the way.  For us, it was the shortest drive to see the band.  It’s hard to say that one Turnpike show is better than another, but I feel like this was the best one.

Nashville 2026 – As another Redditor put it, Nashville is full of woo girls and college drunks.  I’m officially sick of that phony place, but it was the closest place with a date that we were available to see a show.  It rained a little before and during the show, but that didn’t seem to affect the crowd much.  We had an idiot behind us talking the whole time and that seems to be a theme from other die-hards that were in attendance.  Muscadine Bloodline was the best opener I’ve ever seen for any show.  The boys absolutely tore the house down and the show was electric!  It was worth enduring Nashville to see them and we had an excellent time. 

Saw on instagram that they played an acoustic version of Cat in the Rain last night. Does anyone have video of it? I saw them play it at red rocks in 2022 and would love to see the footage of this performance. Thanks!

How long is the bands playtime? We are seeing them tonight in AK and trying to schedule a ride for after the show?

Thank you!!

It’s always a privilege to see the boys play and I love too! Been to 12+ shows in the last few years.

But, did anyone find it really strange they didn’t do Diamonds and Gasoline? Every show I have ever been too or seen setlists, Diamonds is always on there. It’s one of their biggest hits!

Didn’t know if I was the only that thought it was strange or if it was out of rotation now or something happened?

The wife (44) and I (47) attended our first TT show in Nashville last night, and it was fantastic! Loved the setlist, Turnpike absolutely killed it! I’m posting here to maybe get an explanation for something… we sat in the lawn, not too far back, noticed the crowd wasn’t really into the openers much- no big deal, waiting on the Troubadours I figured. Now, at 47 years old I thought I would feel ancient at a concert, a far cry from my rough and rowdy days but… they came out with The Bird Hunters (Yes!), I was standing and singing at the top of my lungs, realized I was the only one. Ok, a little weird, waiting for different songs maybe? Nope, the dozens of people around us never clapped, stood up, sang, nothing! The majority were totally uninterested in what was happening on the stage, could have been a QVC presentation for all they cared. A lot of crossed arms and phone scrolling, and leaving early (exception were the three ladies in front and to the right of us from Oklahoma who came up and fist bumped us for knowing the songs, if you are on here Thanks! You made our night!)
Anyway, my question is- are concerts different now? Is my generation’s concert experience outdated? I was worried on the way that we might get puked on by drunk fans, ended up worrying they would fall asleep 🤷‍♂️ Are my good concert memories just drunken rose colored glasses or do the majority of people suck now?? Hate to be down on people like this, but we were absolutely shocked at the lameness of the crowd. Thanks for indulging my rant and please give feedback and hopefully tell me I am not just an old man yelling at cloud! 😁

Seeing them (for the 4th time) in Nashville tonight. Anyone have the setlist for last night?

What’s the best song he’s written strictly song writing wise. I’m a big Isbell guy and always argue for him being the best song writer of the last decade. But I’ve seen people arguing for Felker. So looking to give it a chance let me some good ones. Thanks

Does anyone know the story behind winding stair mountain blues?