Drive-By Truckers head back up High Street to the Met

The band's first Morgantown show since October 2023 is a Sunday night at the Metropolitan Theatre on Feb. 21, with U.K. country band Brown Horse opening.

The last time Drive-By Truckers played Morgantown, it was Oct. 1, 2023, at the Metropolitan Theatre on High Street, with American Aquarium as the special guest. They're booked back into the same room: Sunday, Feb. 21, 2027, at the Met, a 7 p.m. start, with Brown Horse opening.

The Met has the date up on its own calendar as "Drive-By Truckers w/ Brown Horse," and tickets are on sale through Etix. It was announced Oct. 14.

Three and a half years between visits isn't a drought for a touring band, but it's long enough for a college town to turn over most of its student body. Anyone who was a freshman for the 2023 show will be close to graduation by February; a lot of the crowd will be seeing the band in this room for the first time.

The Truckers have kept a steady road schedule since that last visit. This year alone they opened with the HeAthens Homecoming, four nights at the 40 Watt in Athens, Ga., in February, and they'll be in Portland for a run of shows Nov. 12–14. A February date in West Virginia fits that rhythm: a working band, playing theaters, in places that show up for it.

The opener is a good booking. Brown Horse is a U.K. indie-country band whose album *Total Dive* came with a North American tour.

The Met itself is a big part of the appeal. The historic theater at 373 High Street holds 1,300 for this show, which puts the band close to a downtown crowd in a room built for listening. It's the kind of place where a band with a deep catalog can stretch out, and where a Sunday night in February feels like an event rather than a weeknight chore.

They're booked back into the same room.

For a lot of Morgantown, the Truckers at the Met is a standing date that just hasn't come around in a while. Feb. 21 is a Sunday — park downtown, get a drink before doors, catch Brown Horse, and stay for the long set.

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