The Red Clay Strays

The Red Clay Strays are bringing their Grateful Tour 2026 with special guests Shane Smith & The Saints and Brent Cobb to Dickies Arena on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.  The Red Clay Strays will celebrate their eagerly awaited new album, Grateful, with an epic North American headline tour including Dickies Arena on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 – the award-winning, 3x RIAA Platinum-certified band’s biggest live run thus far. The Grateful Tour ‘26 starts in Columbia, MD on July 30 and continues into mid-November.   A wide array of special guests will join the Mobile, AL-based rock band on select dates throughout the tour, including Shane Smith and The Saints and Brent Cobb in Fort Worth.  The Red Clay Strays will officially kick off their 2026 tour later today, April 24, with a press conference and a top-billed appearance at Indio, CA’s Stagecoach. Fans can watch the press conference and the full set exclusively on Prime Video, the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, and the Amazon Music app.  Upcoming highlights also include a very special headline performance for the upcoming Season 52 of PBS’ venerable Austin City Limits, taping April 27 at Austin, TX’s ACL Live at the Moody Theater, as well as highly anticipated performances at such festivals as Nashville, TN’s annual CMA Fest presented by SoFi (June 5), Bloomington, IL’s Tailgate N’ Tallboys (June 21), St. Paul, MN’s Minnesota Country Club (July 11), Pryor, OK’s Born & Raised Music Festival (September 19), Louisville, KY’s Bourbon & Beyond (September 26). In addition, The Red Clay Strays recently announced, “The Red Clay Strays Fan Fest 2026,” the first-ever RCS fan festival set to take place at Rexford, MT’s Abayance Bay Marina on June 24-28. The five-night event will feature a headline show from The Red Clay Strays, the very special “Strays with Stories – Intimate Performances and Stories with The Red Clay Strays,” headline shows by Lukas Nelson and St. Paul & the Broken Bones, and much more. Tickets for “The Red Clay Strays Fan Fest 2026” are extremely limited; complete details are available HERE and via The Red Clay Strays App.  Along with their busy live schedule, The Red Clay Strays’ momentous year will see the hugely anticipated release of their third studio album, Grateful, arriving via HBYCO Records/RCA Records on Friday, June 5. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. Produced once again by 9x GRAMMY® Award-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit), Grateful is heralded by the album’s electrifying opening track, “Demons In Your Choir,” available everywhere now. A deeply personal spiritual rumination unlike anything in the Mobile, AL-based rock band’s previous body of work, the track swiftly builds from a few stirring notes on the organ into a foot-stomping singalong, complete with wall-shaking guitar riffs and a backing gospel choir led by 3x GRAMMY® Award-winning musician Shannon Sanders (Jonny Lang, India.Arie, Fisk Jubilee Singers).  “It’s a different sound,” says The Red Clay Strays lead singer and guitarist Brandon Coleman. “And this is a different-sounding album, genre-wise. It’s a good way to start it.”  A collection of 11 rollicking, soul-searching songs that can spill out of dance halls on Saturday night and fill church steeples on Sunday morning in equal measure, Grateful marks the latest chapter in The Red Clay Strays’ inspiring journey from their hometown of Mobile, AL, to packing arenas around the world with audiences ready to partake in an old-school roots-rock revival. The band first set out with something to prove on 2022’s RIAA Gold-certified crowdfunded debut LP, Moment of Truth, and then carved a path through hardship on 2024’s acclaimed Made By These Moments, earning them 3x RIAA Platinum certification for the #1 hit single, “Wondering Why,” worldwide critical applause, and a growing collection of accolades including the Americana Music Honors & Awards’ 2024 “Emerging Artist of the Year,” the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards’ 2025 “New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year,” and the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards’ 2025 “Vocal Group of the Year.”  Grateful now sees The Red Clay Strays paying tribute to the faith they held in each up-and-down moment. Working once again with producer Dave Cobb (with whom they previously collaborated on Made For These Moments) between his Savannah, GA home studio and the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, the six-member band – Brandon Coleman (lead vocals, guitar), Drew Nix (guitar, vocals), Andrew Bishop (bass), Zach Rishel (guitar), John Hall (drums), and Sevans Henderson (keyboards) – reached a new level of comfort in the recording process, often workshopping ideas or collectively writing songs during sessions. The album showcases The Red Clay Strays’ gift for time-tested soul and sweat-drenched rock on such standout tracks as the churning hit single, “People Hatin’” and the tender “If I Didn’t Know You,” the latter joined by a heartwarmingly romantic official music video co-starring avowed fans, superstar comedian Matt Rife and fitness influencer Mariah Morse, now boasting over 4.3M views on YouTube. With Grateful, The Red Clay Strays turn survival into jubilation – a celebration of faith, a soundtrack to gratitude, and a clear-eyed reflection of the road traveled along the way.  “Moment of Truth was a big album about having faith in dark times, looking to a higher power,” says Coleman, “and Made By These Moments focused on realizing those dark times that you were having to have faith through, which made you who you are. You made it through when you didn’t think you would. And now we’re at a point where we’re grateful. Looking to God in whatever situation you’re in is a denominator in all of the albums.”  “The title of the album’s a literal meaning to us at this moment in our careers,” says bassist Andrew Bishop. “We’re grateful for how we came out of Made By These Moments and what we have now.”