Drive-By Truckers bring Brown Horse to Globe Iron in February

The Athens band's first Cleveland date since 2024 is Friday, Feb. 19, 2027, with the Norwich country band opening.

Cleveland only had to wait a little over two years this time, but the room is new and so is the opening act. Drive-By Truckers are coming back in the dead of February, the time of year when a loud, long rock show is about the best thing on the calendar.

Drive-By Truckers play Globe Iron on Friday, February 19, 2027. Doors are at 7 p.m., the show starts at 8, and Brown Horse opens. The date was announced October 14, and it's the band's first Cleveland show since October 23, 2024, at House of Blues. Globe Iron holds about 1,200. Tickets are on sale through AXS.

That 2024 visit came in a year when the band was out playing *Southern Rock Opera* on its Southern Rock Opera Revisited tour, as Rolling Stone reported, a look back at one of the records the band is best known for. A February club date is a different kind of night: no anniversary framing, just the band and whatever they feel like playing.

The opener is worth showing up early for. Brown Horse are a UK country band out of Norwich, and Americana UK has called them Norwich's own superstars on the way to a third album in three years. BrooklynVegan covered their album *Total Dive* and the North American tour that came with it. They've already shared a bill with the Truckers, opening the band's September 12, 2026 show at Burial Beer Co.'s Forestry Camp in Asheville, per JamBase. Cleveland gets the pairing next.

A February club date is a different kind of night: no anniversary framing, just the band.

What's still unclear is how much road surrounds this one. As of now, the band's 2027 calendar hasn't been laid out as a full tour in anything we could find, and the Cleveland date stands mostly on its own. That could mean more dates are coming, or it could mean this is one of a handful of winter shows. Either way, it's on the books.

The genre tags on the listing read rock, country and folk, which is about as good a three-word summary of this band as anyone has come up with. Plan for a full night: a 7 p.m. door, an opener with something to prove, and a headliner who has never been known for short sets.

Get your tickets, find a warm coat, and be inside by eight.

Sources: Drive-By Truckers at Globe Iron (AXS) (axs.com); Drive-By Truckers to Journey Through the Past, Playing 'Southern Rock Opera' on Tour (Rolling Stone) (rollingstone.com); Norwich superstars Brown Horse set to release third album in three years (Americana UK) (americana-uk.com); UK indie country band Brown Horse announce new album Total Dive, North American tour (BrooklynVegan) (brooklynvegan.com); Drive-By Truckers at Burial Beer Co. Forestry Camp, Sept. 12, 2026 (JamBase) (jambase.com)