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Turnpike Troubadours

Tahlequah, OK

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country Popularity: 65 Established Division

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Region: Northeast Oklahoma / Green Country Conference: Plains Regional Rank: #9

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Did You Know

  • Evan Felker and RC Edwards bonded over shared love for Woody Guthrie, forming the band.
  • Their self-titled 2015 album reached #3 on Billboard's US Folk chart, a major breakthrough.
  • Felker's 2018 marriage to Staci Nelson and subsequent relationship with Miranda Lambert fueled public interest.
  • The band unexpectedly covered Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" during live shows early in their career.
  • Turnpike Troubadours' music helped revitalize the Red Dirt music scene in Oklahoma.
  • Before Turnpike, Felker worked as a ranch hand, influencing his songwriting.
  • They hold the record for most consecutive sold-out shows at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.
  • John Fullbright, another Oklahoma musician, often collaborated early on guitar and keys.
  • Felker disappeared before several shows in 2019, leading to the band's hiatus.
  • Their 2022 reunion tour sold out arenas, demonstrating their enduring fanbase.

Locations in Lyrics

51 location references across 36 songs

Songs & Places

On The Red River
, TX Detroit, MI Frankfort, KY
"Back on the red river"
Good Lord Lorrie
, AR De Queen, AR Broken Bow, OK
"And if I ever set foot in Sevier county"
Sunday Morning Paper
Bakersfield, CA Tulsa, OK
"Bakersfield, Tulsa-town"
Easton & Main
Tulsa, OK
"Well I left my heart in Tulsa"
Diamonds & Gasoline
Tulsa, OK , OK
"But I'm stuck here in Tulsa"
The Rut
"Early fall descended on the dry back country Aspens / I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standin' there"
Long Hot Summer Day
, IL Pekin, IL Beardstown, IL Alton, IL
"For every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River"
The Devil Plies His Trade (Sn 6 Ep 3)
, CA
"While the Gulf Coast drowns in the wind and rain"
The Winding Stair Mountain Blues
, OK
"Raising hell from here to Bryan County"
A Cat in the Rain
, LA , TX Anahuac, TX
"There were bayou dives and oyster knives and liquor for to drown"
The Funeral
Oklahoma City, OK
"With a pocket full of delta blues and cheap amphetamines"
A Tornado Warning
"Along the 35 Corridor"
Southeastern Son
"We'd walk the big clearcuts in the pine timberland"
Brought Me
Tulsa, OK
"At an old barroom in Tulsa, I looked up and you were there"
Gin, Smoke, Lies
Oklahoma City, OK
"In Oklahoma City"
Oklahoma Stars
, OK
"The stars in Oklahoma"
The Bird Hunters
, OK Tulsa, OK
"Go on back to Cherokee County"
Wrecked
New Orleans, LA Detroit, MI
"Like a Tennessee Williams play"
Unrung
Detroit, MI , TX
"You got a Chevrolet as old as her"
Mean Old Sun
"Goin' where the gulf breeze blows"
1968
Memphis, TN Detroit, MI
"In Memphis, Tennessee"
Pipe Bomb Dream
Oklahoma City, OK
"Oklahoma City by the morning sun"
Every Girl
San Antonio, TX
"Well she was born in the mornin', late October, San Antone"
Kansas City Southern
Kansas City, MO , CO , OK
"Well I was working on the KCS Rail Line"
Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
"Song about Tulsa"
7 & 7
supermarket aisle
Whole Damn Town
downtown honky tonk
the devil piles his trade
Apalachicola, FL Baton Rouge, LA Bay St. Louis, MS Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Brownsville, TX Clearwater, FL Corpus Christi, TX Destin, FL Fort Walton Beach, FL Galveston, TX Gulf Shores, AL Gulfport, MS Lafayette, LA Lake Charles, LA Mobile, AL Naples, FL New Orleans, LA Ocean Springs, MS Orange Beach, AL Panama City, FL Panama City Beach, FL Pascagoula, MS Pensacola, FL Port Aransas, TX Port Arthur, TX Rockport, TX Sarasota, FL St. Petersburg, FL Tampa, FL , CA
Ringing in the Year
, KS
"The fool I loved in Kansas was the fool I loved the best"
Shreveport
Shreveport, LA
"Song about Shreveport, LA"
Down on Washington
Stillwater, OK
"Down on Washington, dancing like the devil"
Leaving Town (Woody Guthrie Festival)
Okemah, OK
"Woody Guthrie Festival"
Morgan Street
Tahlequah, OK
"Morgan Street"
7 Oaks
, OK
"Grandaddy's farm on Cherokee allotted land"
East Side Love Song (Bottoms Up)
Kingston, OK
"Gone to Kingston, bettin' on a rooster fight"
Bossier City
Bossier City, LA

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