Whitey Morgan and the 78's bring Hell on the Highway to the Mangy Moose on Jan. 26

Seven weeks after his first album in eight years lands, the Michigan honky-tonk outfit plays Teton Village's 400-capacity saloon on a Tuesday in ski season.

On Jan. 26, the Mangy Moose has a good reason to get out of the house.

Whitey Morgan and the 78's play the Mangy Moose, 3295 Village Drive in Teton Village, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2027. Doors are at 8 p.m. and the music starts at 8:45, according to the Ox Presents listing for the show. The date was announced Oct. 14; tickets are through Prekindle. We didn't see a price posted, so check the ticket page.

The timing is the hook. In mid-September, Morgan announced Hell on the Highway, his first new album in eight years, due Dec. 4, 2026, per Saving Country Music. The title track came out Sept. 25. The record has 11 songs and was produced by Grammy-winning engineer Justin Francis. The last full album, Hard Times and White Lines, was in 2018. By late January, people will have had seven weeks with the new songs, which is about right for a crowd to know the choruses.

The band has kept working through the gap. This year alone they've played Salt Lake City's Commonwealth Room in January, Lowbrow Palace in El Paso and the Orpheum in Flagstaff in May, and Tellus 360 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in September.

His first album in eight years, seven weeks old by showtime, in a room that's been booking live music since 1967.

The room matters here. The Mangy Moose has been a live music spot in Jackson Hole since it opened in 1967, per the venue's own history, and it holds about 400 people. That's a small, loud, close room for a band that plays hard country.

What to know: doors at 8, band at 8:45, so this isn't an early night. If you're driving out from town in January, give yourself time on the road and plan your ride home before you start. If you're already in the village after a day on the hill, it's a short walk.

Come for the new songs, stay for the ones you already know. A Tuesday in January rarely gets better than this.

Sources: Ox Presents — Prekindle events (Whitey Morgan and the 78s, Mangy Moose) (prekindle.com); Prekindle — Whitey Morgan and the 78's tickets (prekindle.com); Mangy Moose — History (mangymoose.com); The Mangy Moose Restaurant & Saloon (mangymoose.com); Saving Country Music — Whitey Morgan Announces First New Album in 8 Years, 'Hell on the Highway' (savingcountrymusic.com); Whitey Morgan — official site (whiteymorgan.com); The Commonwealth Room — Whitey Morgan & the 78s (thestateroompresents.com); Tellus 360 — Whitey Morgan and the 78s (Sept 19, 2026) (tickets.venuepilot.com)