The Red Clay Strays bring the Grateful Tour to Brookshire Grocery Arena Nov 6

The Mobile band's third album gets an arena-sized Friday in Bossier City, with Muscadine Bloodline and Brent Cobb on the bill.

There are three acts on the bill next Friday in Bossier City, and two of them came up out of Mobile, Ala. That's a lot of Gulf Coast for one night at Brookshire Grocery Arena, and it's the kind of country-rock bill this arena doesn't get every month.

The Red Clay Strays headline on Friday, Nov 6, with Muscadine Bloodline and Brent Cobb as support. The venue lists doors at 5 p.m. and the show at 6:30 p.m. at 2000 Brookshire Arena Drive. That's an early start for a three-act bill, so plan dinner accordingly. Tickets are through AXS, linked from the arena's event page.

The tour is named for the record: Grateful, the band's third studio album, out June 5. It's their first since Made by These Moments, and Dave Cobb produced it again, with sessions split between his Savannah studio and RCA Studio A in Nashville. Rolling Stone's review called it a country-rock record that's both God-fearing and ass-kicking, which is a fair description of a band that can put a song called "Demons in Your Choir" on the same album as "Down South." The 11 tracks include the earlier singles "People Hatin'" and "If I Didn't Know You," plus "Don't Wanna Know."

A country-rock record that's both God-fearing and ass-kicking.

The band formed in Mobile in 2016. Its debut, Moment of Truth, produced "Wondering Why," which went top 20 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, and the years since have moved them from bars to rooms like this one. Brookshire Grocery Arena holds 14,000, which is the size the Strays are playing now.

The road to Bossier runs through the South. The band plays Knoxville on Oct 28 and Birmingham on Halloween, then Baton Rouge on Nov 5 — the night before this one — and Atlanta a week later, on Nov 13. Shreveport-Bossier gets them on a Friday, between two Louisiana-adjacent dates, which is about as good as the routing gets.

Don't sleep on the openers. With a 6:30 start, the first set will be underway while plenty of people are still in the parking lot. Get there early enough to see all three.

The arena ran a presale back on April 30 and the general on-sale began May 1, so this one has been on the calendar for a while. If you've been meaning to go, the time is now. If you've already got tickets, the only decision left is how early to leave the house on a Friday.

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