Jason Boland & The Stragglers

Hailed by the NY Times as “one of the country scene’s most multidimensional songwriters,” Oklahoma-born troubadour Jason Boland has spent the last 25 years at the forefront of the Red Dirt sound, blurring the lines between roots, rock, folk, and bluegrass as he’s built his devoted audience one transcendent show at a time. Since the release of his 1999 debut, Pearl Snaps, Boland has racked up more than half a million album sales, collaborated with the likes of Shooter Jennings and Robert Earl Keen, and performed Cain’s Ballroom to the Grand Ole Opry with his band, The Stragglers. Boland’s latest album, The Last Kings Of Babylon, reflects back on the last quarter century through a series of raw performances captured live on the studio floor in just two days of basic tracking. Helmed by legendary producer Lloyd Maines, the collection finds Boland and the band continuing to evolve, pushing boundaries and challenging genre conventions even as they embrace tradition.