The Avett Brothers and Drive-By Truckers are set to share the stage at Tuscaloosa's Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater on Friday at 7 p.m., pairing a four-time Grammy-nominated folk-rock act with one of the South's longest-running rock bands. Gates open at 6 p.m. for the show at the roughly 9,000-capacity venue at 2710 Jack Warner Pkwy.
According to visittuscaloosa.com, the Avett Brothers with Drive-By Truckers are coming to the amphitheater that Friday evening, confirming both the date and the 7 p.m. start. The Avett Brothers are four-time Grammy Award nominees who broke into the mainstream with their 2009 major-label debut, I and Love and You, according to liveplaytuscaloosa.com. That same account notes the band's follow-up records climbed to No. 4 and No. 5 on the Billboard 200, and that their latest release is a self-titled 2024 album, per Tuscaloosa Thread.
A Southern Rock Institution Rolls Back Through
Drive-By Truckers trace back to 1996, when guitarists and singer-songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley formed the band in Athens, Georgia, as reported by The Tuscaloosa News. The band has released 14 studio albums and played more than 2,500 shows since then, according to wvua23.com and the same Tuscaloosa Thread report. Jason Isbell spent six years in the lineup before departing to go solo in 2007, the Tuscaloosa News account adds.
The band released Welcome 2 Club XIII through ATO in 2022, per visittuscaloosa.com's event listing. Drive-By Truckers are no strangers to the Tuscaloosa amphitheater stage — the Tuscaloosa News piece recounts a 2015 set there that got cut short after about four songs when lightning rolled in, and notes the band's most recent Tuscaloosa appearance before that stretch came at Druid City Music Hall in November 2016.
Tickets And Venue Details
Tickets for Friday's show are available through Ticketmaster and the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater box office, according to liveplaytuscaloosa.com, which also lists the box office's hours as Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tedeschi Trucks Band previously shared that same stage with Drive-By Truckers for a 6:30 p.m. show opened by the Marcus King Band, the Tuscaloosa News reported, underscoring how often touring roots-rock acts have cycled through the venue over the years.
Friday's pairing puts two acts with deep catalogs and decades of touring experience on the same bill, with Tuscaloosa Thread describing Drive-By Truckers as special guests for the Avett Brothers' fall stop in the city. Doors open at 6 p.m. ahead of the 7 p.m. start, giving concertgoers an hour to settle in before the music begins.
