Turnpike Troubadours - Turnpike Troubadours (Pink) Carlos & Alice Coltrane

Turnpike Troubadours - Turnpike Troubadours (Pink) Carlos & Alice ColtraneA band that takes it's name from the Indian Nation Turnpike, a 105 mile parkway stretched across southeastern Oklahoma there's no place like home. Armed with songs about love, loss and life in the Sooner State, the country rockers have built one of the fiercest followings in the Red Dirt scene. The self produced, self titled Turnpike Troubadours, an album that mixes rootsy, roughhewn hooks with roadhouse twang.

all of these things - your authentic state of being in a song

For the majority of their career

bolstered in part by the excellent performance of the single "Spoon"

which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording

it's the only way he knows how

"Crooked Smile

features fan favorites such as "Harlem River Blues

I Shot the Sheriff (6:55)

Probably March or April 1946

Given that band leader Stuart Murdoch has openly declared himself pro-bubblegum before

an Oxford bloke taking respite from singing in the most influential rock band of the 21st century

This song shakes loose some of The Mars Volta’s long-standing shibboleths and the dizzying