Tour Prep: The Hour Is Getting Late

With just two weeks before the tour begins, we have open dates still looming large, a new west coast version of the Postcard Program, and your last chance to pre-order tour merch. Let's dive in.

The biggest trip of my life begins in just two weeks. On Thursday, September 26, I’ll load the Buick and begin my sojourn westward. Over the course of six weeks, I’ll be covering more than ten thousand miles, playing thirty shows, and taking in a huge swath of the American landscape that will see me make it all the way to the Pacific Ocean and back.

In many ways, this trip westward is a natural progression forward from my pair of successful solo tours of the eastern US that I embarked upon in 2023 and 2024. Still, this run will feature a whopping ten additional shows more than the most recent east cost tour, and will cover thousands more miles. On my eastern tours, I was able to play and stay regularly in the homes of friends and acquaintances. For the Western edition, I will playing far fewer house concerts and more conventional venues.

Playing more traditional spaces is certainly not all bad, but it does make it tougher to reach an audience when I am nothing more than a stranger in …