Randy Rogers Band brings the Songbook Tour to Montgomery Performing Arts Center

Three weeks after their collaboration album lands, the Texas country veterans play a Friday night downtown on Feb. 12.

Montgomery is one of a handful of cities on the first run of the Randy Rogers Band's 2027 tour, and the night it lands may be the best-timed date on the list. The band plays Montgomery Performing Arts Center on Friday, Feb. 12, 2027, with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets run $43.85 to $92.50 through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct. 26.

It's billed as the Songbook Tour, named for the record that arrives three weeks before it. *Songbook* is due Jan. 22 on Big Loud Texas, and it revisits 15 of the band's most career-defining songs, recut with collaborators ranging from big names to up-and-comers, according to Saving Country Music. By Feb. 12, the album will have been out long enough for a Montgomery crowd to know the new versions as well as the originals.

The tour's first dates read like a road map of the band's audience. The Music Universe reported that the run starts with a New Year's Eve show and a Musicfest appearance in early January, where the band is the festival's 2027 "Tribute to a Legend" artist, then heads into February headlining dates in Lawrence, Kan.; Columbia, Mo.; Chicago; Nashville; Montgomery; and San Antonio. More dates are coming, but for now, Montgomery is the band's only Alabama stop on the list.

There's a reason for the look back. The band has been celebrating its 25th anniversary with new music (The Music Universe), and *Songbook* is a way of taking stock: the songs that built a career, heard fresh with the people who were influenced by them or who came up alongside them. The band has never been shy about its catalog. In 2024 it released a 20th-anniversary edition of *Rollercoaster*, the album its own site describes as famed (Randy Rogers Band), and its more recent work has kept turning up on the charts, with Shore Fire Media announcing the fourth No. 1 from *Nothing Shines Like Neon*.

Twenty-five years in, the Songbook Tour is a band taking stock of the songs that built it.

The room suits that kind of night. Montgomery Performing Arts Center holds 1,800, a seated theater rather than a honky-tonk, and that changes how these songs land. A Texas dance-hall band in a performing-arts room gets listened to differently: the lyrics come forward, and the stories behind the songs get their due. For a tour built around a band revisiting its own catalog, that's a fitting place to do it.

A 7:30 start on a Friday also leaves time for dinner downtown before the show, and the ticket range gives some flexibility on where you sit. If you've been following this band for years, the cheaper seats will still put you in the room for a career-spanning set. If you're newer to them, *Songbook* is a pretty good place to start.

Spend January with the record. Then, on Feb. 12, go hear the band play those songs back to you in a theater built for listening.

Sources: Randy Rogers Band Announces New Collaborative Album 'Songbook' (Saving Country Music) (savingcountrymusic.com); 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); Texas icons Randy Rogers Band to release 20th anniversary edition of famed album 'Rollercoaster' (Randy Rogers Band) (randyrogersband.com); Randy Rogers Band notches fourth #1 off Nothing Shines Like Neon (Shore Fire Media) (shorefire.com); Tickets (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net)