Midland Details New Dave Cobb-Produced Album & 2024 Fall Tour Dates

Midland announced their next album, Barely Blue, will be released on September 20 via Big Machine Records. The trio unveiled the record’s opening track, “Lucky Sometimes,” and confirmed plans for The Get Lucky Tour that runs from September 19 to December 20.

Midland — lead singer/guitarist Mark Wystrach, bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy and guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson — tapped nine-time Grammy winner Dave Cobb to produce Barely Blue. The follow-up to 2022’s The Last Resort: Greetings From was recorded at at Georgia Mae Studios in Savannah, Georgia.

The country band wanted to employ an old school sound and feel to the eight songs included on the forthcoming LP. “We are all big believers in a certain time and place, a sense of classic country that comes from roadhouses and bad coffee, miles and miles and miles on the road – and the idea that, even though we’re all happy, love and life falls apart, but that doesn’t mean you have to, too,” Duddy explained. “When we were writing these songs, it was a trip into all the things in country music we love. You don’t hear much of this kind of unfiltered, hard stuff that comes with the great guitar sounds, the deep harmonies and shuffles you can tuck into. But that’s the essence of what Midland is – and Dave Cobb brought a new altitude to our sound.”

Midland was extremely excited to have Dave Cobb behind the board. “Dave Cobb had been a producer we wanted to work with since we first heard Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” Wystrach added. “Dave’s eclectic musical background and the way he approaches recording as an experience and not a task made him the perfect match for us. On Barely Blue, we feel like Dave helped us find the sound we’ve been searching for for a long time.”

Mark Wystrach also weighed in on the new single, which comes on the heels of previously released Barely Blue cut “Old Fashioned Feeling.” The vocalist and guitarist noted, “‘Lucky Sometimes’ is a get up and go, hot streak, feel good anthem for when it feels like you just can’t lose. The arrangement is sparse with a high and lonesome groove that crests with soaring harmonies on the hook. It’s the first song on the album and an introduction to the new sonic landscape that Midland found with Dave Cobb at the helm.”

Watch Midland’s “Lucky Sometimes” video directed by Harper Smith:

Midland starts The Get Lucky Tour on September 19 with a concert in Cincinnati. The trio then brings the excursion to Chicago, Council Bluffs (Iowa), Anderson (South Carolina) and St. Augustine (Florida) over the remainder of September. October dates include a play at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver on the 12th as well as shows in Birmingham, Atlanta, Cherokee (North Carolina), El Paso, Grand Junction (Colorado), Salt Lake City and Kennewick (Washington).

November finds Midland sweeping through their home state of Texas for concerts in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Then, the band hits Las Vegas on December 6 and Albuquerque on December 7 before concluding the tour with a hometown show in Austin on December 20.

Tickets for all fall tour dates go on sale Friday, June 28 at 10 a.m. local time.

The trio continues an extensive summer headline tour tonight in Emigrant, Montana. Scroll below for a full list of Midland tour dates with ticketing links.