Randy Rogers Band returns to the Granada after eight years away

The Texas country band's first Lawrence show since 2018 is Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2027, on the Songbook Tour — less than two weeks after its star-studded collaboration album lands.

The last time Randy Rogers Band played Lawrence, it was Nov. 29, 2018, at the Granada. Eight years later, they're coming back to the same stage on Massachusetts Street with a quarter-century of songs and a new way of hearing them.

Randy Rogers Band plays the Granada Theater on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2027, at 7 p.m. Tickets are through the Granada. The date was announced Oct. 28, and the room holds about 800.

The show is a stop on the 2027 Songbook Tour, named for the band's upcoming collaboration album. Songbook is due Jan. 22 and revisits 15 of the band's best-known songs with guests including Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum, Koe Wetzel and Cody Jinks. That puts Lawrence about a week and a half after release — early enough that the reworked versions will still be new to most of the room.

Lawrence gets the Songbook Tour less than two weeks after the album lands.

The tour itself starts before the new year. The first announced date is a New Year's Eve show on Dec. 31 at Regent Bank Amphitheater in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with more 2027 dates added since. Lawrence is one of the early winter stops.

The timing lines up with a milestone. Randy Rogers Band has been marking its 25th anniversary, and a Songbook project — big songs, famous friends, a look back across the catalog — is the kind of record bands make when they've earned the right to celebrate. It follows the 2024 20th-anniversary edition of Rollercoaster, which the band itself called a landmark album, and studio records like 2019's Hellbent, made with producer Dave Cobb.

For Lawrence, the more interesting question is what the live show does with all that. A tour named Songbook signals a set built around the songs fans already know, and the album's guests won't be on the road — so expect the band's own versions, played by the people who wrote them, in a room small enough to hear every fiddle line.

That's the Granada's strength. At 800, it's a far closer look than the amphitheaters and big halls where this band often plays in Texas and Oklahoma, and a Wednesday night in early February is the sort of show that fills with people who really wanted to be there.

Eight years is a long time between visits. If Songbook is a look back at how far the band has come, the Granada is a fitting place to take that look — the same room they left in 2018, waiting for them on a cold winter night.

Sources: Randy Rogers Band kicks off 2027 Songbook Tour with New Year's Eve concert (The Music Universe) (themusicuniverse.com); The band celebrates its 25th anniversary with the new song (The Music Universe) (themusicuniverse.com); Randy Rogers Band release 20th anniversary edition of landmark album Rollercoaster (randyrogersband.com) (randyrogersband.com); Randy Rogers Band Announces New 'Hellbent' Album With Dave Cobb (Rolling Stone) (rollingstone.com); Randy Rogers Band at Granada Theater (JamBase) (jambase.com)