Drive-By Truckers return to Knoxville, this time at The Mill & Mine

The band's first Knoxville show since a September 2023 date at The Shed is Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2027, with Norwich's Brown Horse opening.

It has been since Sept. 22, 2023, at The Shed, that Drive-By Truckers last played Knoxville. The next one is set for a downtown room and a weeknight in the dead of winter — which, for a band like this, is not a bad combination.

Drive-By Truckers play The Mill & Mine on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2027, with Brown Horse opening. The date was announced Oct. 14, and tickets are sold through The Mill & Mine's own site. Check the venue page for door and show times before you head out.

The 2023 show was at The Shed in nearby Maryville. This time the band is booked at 227 W. Depot Ave., in a room the venue describes as a music hall in the heart of Knoxville, holding about 1,200. That is a different kind of night than an outdoor-feeling shed date: closer and louder.

The Knoxville show sits inside a February run that gives a sense of where the band's head is at going into 2027. AXS's listings for the band show a stop at The Heights Theater in Houston on Feb. 4, then three straight nights at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga., Feb. 10 through 12, before Knoxville the following Wednesday. Three nights in a small club in Athens is the kind of booking a band makes when it wants to play long and loose; Knoxville gets the band coming straight off that stand.

Knoxville gets them a few days after three straight nights at the 40 Watt.

The opener deserves an early arrival. Brown Horse is an indie-country band from Norwich, England, on Loose Music, whose album *Total Dive* was produced by Owen Turner and led off by the single "Twisters." It is the band's third album, and their first US tour, announced alongside it, ran from Los Angeles to New York. They have already shared a bill with the Truckers — they were the special guest at the band's Sept. 12 show in Asheville this year — so this is a pairing that has been road-tested, not a promoter's guess. A British band playing American country-rock in front of a crowd that came for the Truckers is a fair test, and one they have passed before.

What to know before going: buy through The Mill & Mine directly, which is the seller for this date. It is a Wednesday, so plan for a work-night finish. And with Brown Horse on the bill, show up for the first set, not just the second.

Three and a half years is a long time between Knoxville visits for a band that has spent decades on the road. A cold February weeknight downtown, a room this size and an opener worth hearing is a pretty good way to end the wait.

Sources: The Mill & Mine — tickets (themillandmine.com); The Mill & Mine — venue page (themillandmine.com); AXS — Drive-By Truckers tour dates (axs.com); BrooklynVegan — Brown Horse announce new album Total Dive, North American tour (brooklynvegan.com); The Line of Best Fit — Brown Horse announce new album Total Dive (thelineofbestfit.com); JamBase — Drive-By Truckers at Burial Beer Co. Forestry Camp, Sep 12, 2026 (jambase.com); The Shed Maryville Concert Setlists (setlist.fm); Drive-By Truckers - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)