Drive-By Truckers bring new-album season to the Culture Room on Feb. 27

With a 14th studio album nearly finished, the Truckers play Fort Lauderdale's 650-capacity Culture Room on Saturday, February 27, 2027, with Brown Horse opening.

There aren't many rooms in South Florida where a band with Drive-By Truckers' catalog still feels within arm's reach. The Culture Room on North Federal Highway is one of them, and that's where the Truckers are landing this winter.

Drive-By Truckers play the Culture Room on Saturday, February 27, 2027, at 7:30 p.m., with Brown Horse opening. Tickets are $76.20 to $141.96 through Ticketmaster. The room at 3045 N. Federal Hwy. holds 650, so this is a club show for a band with a long catalog.

The date was confirmed in mid-October as part of a 17-date winter run, from February 10 to March 6. The timing is the hook. The band says it's hard at work finishing its next record. As Relix reported, Patterson Hood calls the album "nearly finished," and it will be the Truckers' 14th studio album. Julia Barfield sings on it. There's no title or release date yet, so the songs people hear this winter may well arrive before the record does.

The run opens at home. The band starts with HeAthens Homecoming, four nights at the 40 Watt in Athens, Georgia, from February 10 to 13. The shows benefit Nuçi's Space, a mental-health nonprofit focused on musicians, and the band plans to preview new material there. From Athens the tour heads north, through Cleveland's Globe Iron on February 19 and Morgantown's Metropolitan Theatre on February 21. Then it turns south: Harrisburg on February 23, Fort Lauderdale on the 27th, Pensacola on March 1, and two closing nights at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, on March 5 and 6.

That makes Fort Lauderdale the band's South Florida stop on this run. If the Athens residency is where the new songs get their first airing, a week or two of road work later they should be tighter by the time the bus pulls up on Federal Highway.

Brown Horse is direct support for the whole tour. The band is from Norwich, England, and is touring behind its album *Total Dive*. It's an interesting pairing: an English band working the same rough-edged, country-shaded rock that the Truckers have built a career on. Get there for the opener.

A 650-capacity room and a nearly finished album.

A Saturday-night show at the Culture Room means a crowd that's had all day to get ready and doesn't have to worry about work in the morning. The ticket prices reflect the demand; the room's size is the reason to pay them.

For a band 14 albums into its career, it's still worth watching how the new songs sit next to the old ones. February 27 in Fort Lauderdale is a good night to find out.

Sources: Drive-By Truckers Confirm Early 2027 Dates and Athens Run, New Album in the Works (Relix) (relix.com); Drive-By Truckers Confirm Early 2027 Dates and Athens Run, New Album in the Works (Jambands) (jambands.com); Drive-By Truckers - News (official site) (drivebytruckers.com); Culture Room events (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Drive-By Truckers, Ft. Lauderdale, Feb 27, 2027 (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.com)