Drive-By Truckers playing ‘Southern Rock Opera’ in full on North American tour

Drive-By Truckers will celebrate their third album, 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, on tour this summer and fall, performing it in full along with other songs from throughout their discography. They’ve announced the “Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 Tour,” which runs through June and July, followed by a second leg in October and November. See all dates below.

The band write:

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!

The NYC show is on the second leg of dates, at Irving Plaza on October 17. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, March 29 at 10 AM local, and they’re also taking ticket requests now.

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: 2024 TOUR DATES
JUN 7 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
JUN 8 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
JUN 9 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
JUN 10 – Henrico, VA – Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
JUN 13 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
JUN 14 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
JUN 15 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
JUN 16 – New Orleans, LA – The Civic Theatre
JUN 19 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
JUN 20 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
JUN 21 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
JUN 23 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
JUN 26 – El Cajon, CA – The Magnolia
JUN 27 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco
JUN 28 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
JUN 29 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
JUL 1 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
JUL 2 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
JUL 5 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
JUL 6 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
OCT 16 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre
OCT 17 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
OCT 18 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
OCT 19 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
OCT 22 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
OCT 23 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
OCT 25 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater
OCT 26 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater
OCT 27 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
OCT 29 – Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
OCT 30 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
NOV 1 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
NOV 2 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
NOV 3 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
NOV 5 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
NOV 7 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
NOV 8 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
NOV 9 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
NOV 24 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium