Dallas Burrow brings 'Modern Day Vagabond' to Mercury Lounge Saturday

The Texas songwriter's new Forty Below record gets a small-room Tulsa outing at the 18th and Boston dive on Saturday, Nov. 14.

There are only so many places in Tulsa where a Texas songwriter can stand a few feet from the bar and sing about life on the road to people who've lived some of it. Mercury Lounge is one of them, and Saturday night it gets Dallas Burrow.

Burrow plays Mercury Lounge on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets run $10 to $75 through Prekindle. The show was announced Oct. 26, so it's a quick turnaround — and in a room this small, the low end of that price range won't last long.

The timing is good. Burrow's new album, Modern Day Vagabond, came out Sept. 25 on Forty Below Records, a little over a year after *The Way the West Was Won*. He announced it in June, put out "Underdog" ahead of release, and debuted the record live at Gruene Hall on Sept. 4. Saving Country Music had it on its list of the most anticipated albums of the back half of 2026.

PopMatters called it a quintessentially Texan record, and the guest list backs that up: steel guitarist Lloyd Maines, Asleep at the Wheel's Katie Shore, Kelly Willis and the West Texas Exiles all turn up. It's a family record in places, too — Burrow's father, Mike, sings on "Memories" — and it closes with a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Rake," which tells you a fair amount about the tradition he's writing toward.

It closes with a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Rake," which tells you a fair amount about the tradition he's writing toward.

Saturday's show will not have that full cast behind him, and that's not a knock. A record like this lives or dies on the songs, and a room like Mercury Lounge is where you find out how they hold up.

If you haven't been, Mercury Lounge sits in a converted gas station at 18th and Boston, and local writers have long filed it as one of Tulsa's classic dive bars — the kind of place with live music most nights and a crowd that's there for whoever's on stage. For a Texas country-folk songwriter on a new record, that's the right audience: close, attentive and not shy about letting you know when a song lands.

It's also a natural Tulsa stop for this kind of act. The drive up from Texas is an easy one, and Burrow's songs about rambling and making a living from the road will sound right at home in a room that has seen plenty of musicians doing exactly that.

Get there early enough to grab a spot near the front. You'll want to hear the words.

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