Futurebirds - Far Out Country Tour w/ Joelton Mayfield August 28th, 2026 Headliners Music Hall Futurebirds,Far Out CountryFuturebirds have spent nearly two decades in flight, building their audience show by show, foreverrediscovering themselves in a swirl of rock & roll and cosmic Americana. For Carter King, ThomasJohnson, and Daniel Womack—the band's three frontmen, withvoices distinct enough to anchor theirown songs and unified enough to sound like one band—being in Futurebirds has often meant beinggone. They've traveled America's highways and backroads. They've seen its dive bar stages andamphitheater bleachers. WithFar Out Country, though, they stop focusing on the horizon ahead of themand boldly live in the present.They’reno longer rushing toward the next destination.Far Out CountryISthe destination.A two-volume collection of 18 songs,Far Out Countrycasts the widest net of the band's career.Amplified anthems like "Sleepless in the Cage"—a loud, lovely tangle of electric guitar and harmonizedvoices—rub shoulders with the gentle acoustics of "Sienna Life." Rootsy rockers like "SoberSomewhere" giveway to the atmospheric quiet of "All I Want." There are songs for daytime road tripsand songs for nighttime campfires. Songs for sun-streaked landscapes of rolling green hills and songs fordarkening skies of blue-black clouds. For a band that once drewpraise fromUSA Todayfor "mixing Neil& Crazy Horse with My Morning Jacket," Futurebirds have never sounded so singular, making music thatnods to their country-rock heroes while proudly avoiding classification altogether. As Johnson explains,"the longerwe play together, the less our music sounds like it belongs to a genre, and the more it justsoundslike Futurebirds. "WithFar Out Country, it's not just about the music. It's about conversation. Since forming the band asstudents at the University of Georgia, Futurebirds have grown up together, making the transition fromhometown heroes to national headliners. They're not undergrads anymore; they're fathers and family men,caught halfway between their growing responsibilities at home and their duties onthe road.Far OutCountryfinds them talking honestly about life's moving targets and the evolving bonds that hold themtogether. "This is the sound of three people in genuine dialogue, giving their perspectives on similarstages in life," Johnson adds. "It feels like a conversation in a bar, late at night, or at somebody's houseover drinks." "There's a line from the song 'Featherbed' that talks about 'being in a constant state of becoming,'" saysWomack. "That's important to us. We're adventurous peoplewho want to create, and the best way to dothat is to constantly discover yourself over the course of your entire life. A constant state of becomingyourself. "Released two years after the critically-acclaimedEasy Company,Far Out Countryreunites the band withGrammy-winning producer Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman, Bon Iver). Half of the album'strackswere recorded at Sonic Ranch in the Texas borderlands. There, the band focused on live-in-the-studio performances that showcased thewild, sweaty spirit of their beloved stage shows—the same gigsthat promptedRolling Stoneto call them "the most captivating rock act touring today." The other ninesongs were recorded piece-by-piece in much smaller studios, with the band’s own Tom Myers producingfour tracks. This was a different approach that required the bandmatesto be methodical and deliberatewith each layer of sound they added,and Futurebirds welcomed the challenge of fitting bothrecordingstylesinto a congruent whole. "We wanted to complete the story with Brad," King explains. "There was unfinished business, so it feltright to work with him again. It was a continuation of what we'd been doing, and a bit of starting fromscratch, too." It felt right to try new things, too.On previous albums, each of Futurebirds' three songwriters wouldtypically sing lead vocals on his own material. This time, the guys bent those self-imposed rules. "Carterwrote the title track," Womack notes, "but I wound up singing it. We've never reallydone that before, andit opened us up, creatively. "Old habits have remained, too. Futurebirds are still "masters of reverb-steeped country rock infused withSouthern charm," asThe New Yorkeronce gushed, and longtime fans will find plenty to recognizeinthese songs. The pedal steel guitar still drifts skyward, its gorgeous textures gradually disappearing intotheether. Bassist Brannen Miles and drummer Tom Myers still offer a blend of pastoral punch, lopinggroove, and loud bash 'n' crash. The threefrontmen still harmonize like lifelong friends, their drawlingvoices blending into one, their distinct personalities coalescing into something rich and cohesive.Far OutCountrydoesn't showcase a rebranded group as much as a reenergized one, and Futurebirds have neverdefined themselves so clearly before. "If you spend your present moment too wrapped up in the future, or the past, you'll miss what's right infront of you," says King. "This record is us trying to take an honest look at ourselves, and where we’vebeen–and asking if the beliefs we’ve carried along the way are still serving us, where we are right now.”Sequenced into two stylistically-distinct halves—Volume 1, also known as The Day World, andVolumeII, also known as The Night World—Far Out Countryis a soundtrack to self-discovery. Futurebirdsaren't afraid to ask themselves the hard questions, even if their songwriting makes it all sound easy. Here,they invite us into their world: a place where the jukebox is great and the conversation never lags. Theyencourage their audience to completely immerse themselves in the experience, too, unveiling the fullproject as a double-vinyl release months before uploadingFar Out Country’s second half to streamingplatforms. For those craving thefull record, the physical vinyl is the only way to hear the entire album early. "It's an inside joke amongst us that with each album, we think it's our best work yet," says Womack. "Andthe other side of the joke is, we're always right! We're lucky to beable to say that."