Whitey Morgan and the 78's are back at the Knitting Factory on Feb. 3

A year after their last Sprague Avenue stop, the Flint, Michigan country band returns to Spokane with a new album, Hell on the Highway, in hand.

Last February, Whitey Morgan and the 78's played the Knitting Factory on a Wednesday night in the dead of a Spokane winter. They're doing it again. Whitey Morgan and the 78's play Knitting Factory Concert House on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2027, at 8 p.m.

The venue's own calendar lists the date at 919 W. Sprague Ave., and tickets are sold through Ticketmaster, the Knitting Factory's ticketing partner. The room holds about 1,500 people. A Ticketmaster listing from the band's previous visit shows them in the same room on Feb. 4, 2026, so this is a return almost exactly a year later.

This time there's a new record. In September the band announced *Hell on the Highway*, which Saving Country Music called its first full-length album in about eight years. It has 11 songs, was produced by Justin Francis, and is due Dec. 4. It follows a few years of one-off singles, among them "Let Me Roll," and the title track came out at the end of September. So February's set should be the first chance Spokane gets to hear the new material live, two months after release.

February's set should be the first chance Spokane gets to hear the new album live.

For anyone who missed last winter's show: the band is from Flint, Michigan, and signed with Chicago's Bloodshot Records in 2010. Its reputation comes from the road.

The Knitting Factory suits a band like this. It's big enough for a real touring production and still feels like a club downtown. A Wednesday also makes it easier to get in than a weekend would.

The practical part: buy through the Knitting Factory's site or its Ticketmaster listing rather than resale, check the venue's age policy before you go, and plan for an 8 p.m. start on a work night.

This year there are new songs to learn.

Sources: Knitting Factory Spokane — venue calendar (knittingfactory.com); Ticketmaster — Whitey Morgan & the 78's, Spokane, Feb 3, 2027 (ticketmaster.com); Ticketmaster — Whitey Morgan and the 78's, Spokane, Feb 4, 2026 (ticketmaster.com); Saving Country Music — Whitey Morgan Announces First New Album in 8 Years, 'Hell on the Highway' (savingcountrymusic.com); Wikipedia — Whitey Morgan and the 78's (en.wikipedia.org); Tipitina's — Whitey Morgan and the 78's event page (tipitinas.com)