Jason Boland & The Stragglers: Camino Real w/ Special Guests

Doors: 7pm
Special Guest 1: Ben Dahaher 8pm
Special Guest 2: Alex Lambert 8:45pm
Jason Boland & The Stragglers: 10pm

The Last Kings Of Babylon - Boland’s eleventh studio album with his longtime band, The Stragglers - is no nostalgia trip, though. Recorded with legendary producer Lloyd Maines, the collection finds Boland and the band continuing to evolve, pushing sonic boundaries and challenging genre conventions even as they embrace history and tradition. The songwriting is bold and muscular here, filtering classic country through a kaleidoscopic lens of rock, punk, bluegrass, and folk, and the performances are raw and exhilarating to match, captured live on the studio floor in just two whirlwind days of basic tracking. The result is a timeless offering from a group of master craftsmen at the top of their game, a joyful, honest snapshot of a working band 25 years into their unlikely - and unstoppable - career. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Boland grew up listening to a mix of country and rock and roll before eventually finding himself at the epicenter of the Red Dirt scene in Stillwater, where he put together the Stragglers while attending OSU. Beginning with 1999’s Pearl Snaps, the hard-touring band would release a series of critically acclaimed independent albums that would rack up more than half a million sales, lead to collaborations with the likes of Shooter Jennings and Robert Earl Keen, and land performances everywhere from The Ryman Auditorium to the Grand Ole Opry. The New York Times called Boland “one of the country scene’s most multidimensional songwriters,” while American Songwriter praised him as “a troubadour for the ages,” and Rolling Stone hailed him as a “steady, reliable source of smart, gritty songwriting.” Reliable? Yes. Predictable? Hardly. Boland’s path included an endless series of twists and turns over the years, both personally and professionally, as he battled addiction, recovered from a nearly career-ending vocal cord injury, and redefined the possibilities of the Red Dirt sound he’s become synonymous with. Boland’s latest album, 2021’s The Light Saw Me, was a sci-fi concept record declared by SPIN to be one of the “best and most surprising, left-field country albums of the year.”

GENERAL ADMISSION: $36.50 ($30.00 GA + $6.50 service fee)