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Turnpike Troubadours roll into town Aug. 22 By Matt Crider When the Turnpike Troubadours roll in from Oklahoma for their Aug. 22 concert at the North Texas State Fair & Rodeo, it will be a homecoming for the Texan fifth of the Red Dirt quintet. Bass player R.C. Edwards said that drummer Gabe Pearson is a former Denton resident. “Gabe has been with us for about a year,” Edwards said. “He used to play with [Denton musician] Rodney Parker.” Edwards and Pearson are joined by lead singer Evan Felker, fiddler Kyle Nix and guitar player Ryan Engleman. “We’ve always liked Denton. There are a lot of music lovers, and a lot of friends come out,” Edwards said. “It’s a town we really like. It’s got a real neat music scene. “People appreciate good music there.” The Troubadours’ music expands upon the honky-tonk sounds of the bars where they got their start. “Sometimes we’re like a souped-up version of blue-
grass. Sometimes we’re like a country version of punk rock,” Edwards said. “We just started out playing around beer joints in Oklahoma. It kind of grew from there.” The band recently released its third album, Goodbye Normal Street, and Edwards said the journey so far has been about assembling the right lineup and finding the band’s sound. “We’ve come a long way,” he said. “It’s just getting better all the time — better shows, better crowds. “We got out of the van. We’re doing the bus thing now and loving every minute of it.” The Troubadours have roots in Tahlequah, Okla., east of Tulsa, but are now based about 70 miles east of Oklahoma City in Okemah. “It’s sort of in the middle for everyone,” Edwards said. Last month saw them hop from the bus to a plane for a couple of shows in Europe, and each of those provided something unique. Edwards said they played at a club in Italy for 300 to 400
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people and many in the audience were familiar with the music. From there they went to Craponne-sur-Arzon, France, for the renowned Country Rendez-Vous festival, where they played in front of thousands. “They’re more like country music lovers across the board,” Edwards said of the big French
crowd. “They’re really into line dancing over there. So that was a little fun to see.” While Edwards called the European trip fun and “eyeopening,” the band is now back to playing three to four shows a week in Texas and surrounding states, all in support of Goodbye Normal Street and the current single and video, “Gin, Smoke, Lies.”
“We’re real proud of it. It sounds a lot like us,” he said of the album, adding that the song “Good Lord Lorrie” and others are becoming crowd favorites. “They’re kind of already pretty familiar with it. It’s getting good reaction all the way around.” See TROUBADOURS on 20
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