Drive-By Truckers set four February nights at the 40 Watt for HeAthens Homecoming 2027

The band's 27th Homecoming runs Feb. 10–13 at the 40 Watt Club; Thursday, Feb. 11 brings Crazier as opener, and tickets are already on sale.

Every winter the same question goes around Athens, usually in a bar line or a group text: which night are you going? Drive-By Truckers have given the town four answers for 2027.

The band announced on Oct. 14 that HeAthens Homecoming returns to the 40 Watt Club for four nights, Wednesday, Feb. 10 through Saturday, Feb. 13, 2027. Each night gets its own opener: Taylor Hollingsworth on Feb. 10, Crazier on Thursday, Feb. 11, Camp Amped Band on Feb. 12 and The Star Room Boys on Feb. 13, according to Relix and Jambands.

If you were waiting for an on-sale date, it has come and gone. An artist presale opened Oct. 15 and tickets went to the general public on Friday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. Anyone still shopping should go straight to the 40 Watt's own listings rather than chancing a reseller, and should decide quickly: the club holds about 500 people, and four nights of a hometown stand is not a lot of room once the regulars, the out-of-towners and the folks who come every single year have bought in.

Thursday is a good night to pick if you can only do one. It falls between the opener — when Patterson Hood has said the band plans to preview material from the new album they have in the works — and the weekend crowd, and it puts Crazier in front of a room that is reliably there early. Opening night is the one to chase if you want the first public taste of new songs; just know that Hood's plan is a plan, not a setlist.

This is the 27th Homecoming, which says most of what needs saying about why it happens in this room. The Truckers have toured theaters and festival stages for years, but February in Athens means the 40 Watt, and the stand has long been a multi-night affair: the band's own archive lists the 2020 run as Feb. 13, 14 and 15. The band's site already carries the 2027 Homecoming banner. Proceeds from the run support Nuçi's Space, the Athens nonprofit for musicians, so the money stays close to home as well.

The 40 Watt itself is part of the draw. A 500-cap club is small for a band with this many records and this much road behind it, and that is the point: the Homecoming is a chance to hear a Southern rock band built on three-guitar songwriting at close range, in the town it calls home, with a crowd that knows the words to the deep cuts. Country, rock and folk all live in that catalog, and a four-night run gives the band room to pull from all of it rather than repeating one festival set.

February in Athens means the 40 Watt.

A few practical notes. Each night is its own ticket, so check the date on your confirmation before you pass it to a friend. The run lands midweek through Saturday, which means Thursday and Friday are your best bets if you are driving in from Atlanta and want to beat the worst of the Saturday crowd. And keep an eye on the 40 Watt schedule for door times, which had not been posted on the pages we checked.

The rest of the band's early-2027 tour runs outward from here, but this is the part that belongs to Athens. Pick your night, find your people, and see you on the floor in February.

Sources: 40 Watt Club — Schedule (40watt.com); 40 Watt Club (40watt.com); Relix — Drive-By Truckers Confirm Early 2027 Dates and Athens Run, New Album in the Works (relix.com); Jambands — Drive-By Truckers Confirm Early 2027 Dates and Athens Run (jambands.com); Drive-By Truckers — official site (drivebytruckers.com); Drive-By Truckers — Past Tourdates (drivebytruckers.com)