Transparent Towns in the American West: Western Tour 2026

Reporting in from garage to alert you on some reality-warping news: I am returning to the west for a solo tour in the month of August in all this monstrous heat. For your listening pleasure…

Full Band Shows:

7/30 Nashville, TN - Dee’s Country Cocktail (with Sam Hoffman and Matthew Rowan)

7/31 Little Rock, AR - Whitewater Tavern (with Travis Linville)

8/1 Oklahoma City, OK - The Blue Door

Solo Shows:

8/4 Denton, TX - Dan’s Silverleaf (with Static Diary @sponca)

8/8 Laramie, WY - Ruffed Up Duck Saloon (with Bridgette Spinney)

8/9 Salt Lake City, UT - early show at Heavy Metal Shop

8/9 Ogden, UT - later show at Proper Way Studio (with Sammy Brue and Alex Dunn)

8/12 Butte, MT - Pisser’s Palace (with Christy Hays)

8/13 Missoula, MT - Ear Candy Music

8/14 Seattle, WA - Conor Byrne (with Ray Wolff and Forrest VanTuyl)

8/15 San Juan Island, WA - The Fold (with Pale Violet and Shadow Basket)

8/17 Portland, OR - Laurelthirst (with Costalupes and Sunbathe)

8/18 Nevada City, CA - Sans Backup Plan (with Angelica Rockne)

8/20 Reno, NV - Hogadon Hall

8/21 Petaluma, CA - Sunny Hill House Concerts

8/22 San Francisco, CA - 4 Star Theater (with Kevin Carducci)

8/25 Los Angeles, CA - House Show (with Luke Francis)

8/27 Santa Fe, NM - TBA

8/28 Tulsa, OK - The Colony (full band)

With a chest full of opulent merchandise and albums, I will be carrying a new hat, designed by Carl Carbonell, based on my mother’s design of my father’s construction company in the 90’s.

See you out in the static.

poster design by Chris King

WINTER JAPAN TOUR 2025

For the first time ever, I will be touring Japan for select dates in support of the new album. To be traveling and performing throughout this country in the depth of winter is a great honor.

12/12 Kokubunji, Tokyo - Pooh’s HOUSE

12/14 Gotsu, Shimane - Kozenji

12/15 Umeda, Osaka - NOON + CAFE

12/16 Nagoya, Aichi - Hanasaki

12/17 Toyama, Toyama - DOBU6 (Doburoku)

12/19 Mito, Ibaraki - Bo-jangles

12/20 Kamakura, Kanagawa - Cafe Goatee

12/21 Kamakura, Kanagawa - Cafe Goatee

See you out there!

John

The new album, Transparent Towns, is out everywhere now!

I give to you today my new album, Transparent Towns.

In a hallowed hall on the prairie, with an inspiring cadre of musicians, and against the incandescent Oklahoma summer, we cut an album of songs that held weight while maintaining weightlessness. I slept on the floor of the live room, wedged between the piano and the guitars every night after the sessions and spent off moments listening to the nascent tracks being blasted into an underground storm shelter converted into an echo chamber, capturing the rare rain splashing on the red dirt above me. This work was a lightning rod that grounded me, a capsule that brought me back from orbit. May you find something within it for yourself.

Thank you for listening, always.

John