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The Last Frontier Tour - First Leg Announced

Americana and Texas Red Dirt icons Reckless Kelly announce the first leg of The Last Frontier Tour today. This tour is a chance for fans to celebrate with Reckless Kelly as they lead into their 30th anniversary in 2025 when they will retire from touring. 

Kicking off on April 5 in Orange Grove, TX, upcoming shows include stops in Dallas, Chicago, New Braunfels, Denver, and Park City. Additional shows will be announced, including the line-up for the 40th anniversary of their festival, The Braun Brothers Reunion . 

“As we have shared, after 30 years of solid touring, we are ramping down our touring commitments,” frontman Willy Braun said. “Our fans are everything to us, so this tour is bittersweet. We are going to have one hell of a time, and we want to see your faces!” 

On select nights, Reckless Kelly will be joined by special guests, including Steve Earle, The Steel Woods, Bri Bagwell, Courtney Patton, and Shane Smith & the Saints.

The Last Frontier Tour

4/5 - Orange Grove, TX - The Post OG

4/6 - Spicewood, TX - Iron Wolf Ranch & Distillery

4/12 - Dallas, TX - Longhorn Ballroom - with Matt Hillyer

4/13 - Dallas, TX - Longhorn Ballroom - with Jonathan Tyler

5/4 - San Angelo, TX - San Angelo Spur Arena 

5/10 - Chicago, IL - Joe's Bar

6/1 - Graham, TX - Young Country Arena - with Shane Smith & The Saints

6/28 - New Braunfels, TX - Whitewater Amphitheatre - with The Steel Woods and Bri Bagwell

6/29 - New Braunfels, TX - Whitewater Amphitheatre - with Steve Earle and Courtney Patton

7/27 - Burlington, CO - Kit Carson County Fair & Rodeo

8/3 - Denver, CO - The Mission Ballroom - with Steve Earle

8/8 - Challis, ID - The Braun Brothers Reunion

8/9 - Challis, ID - The Braun Brothers Reunion

8/10 - Challis, ID - The Braun Brothers Reunion 

8/15 - Park City, UT - Egyptian Theatre

8/16 - Park City, UT - Egyptian Theatre

8/17 - Park City, UT - Egyptian Theatre

8/18 - Park City, UT - Egyptian Theatre

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Reckless Kelly is currently touring across 1 country and has 16 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at WhiteWater Amphitheater in New Braunfels, after that they'll be at WhiteWater Amphitheater again in New Braunfels.

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Reckless Kelly, Red Dirt Mainstays, Say They’re Retiring From the Road After One Last Tour

By Josh Crutchmer

Josh Crutchmer

To paraphrase the band itself, this is Reckless Kelly ’s “Last Hurrah.”

Reckless Kelly — Americana torchbearers from Idaho via Austin , a former member of the Sugar Hill and Yep Rock labels, and a group that has tied Austin rock and cowboy poetry together seamlessly for more than 25 years — is winding down its touring days.

The end will take the form of a slow march. Co-founders and brothers Willy and Cody Braun told Rolling Stone that Reckless will pare back its touring schedule to roughly 35 shows a year starting in 2023 before retiring from the road altogether in 2025. For a group that has neared or exceed 200 shows a year for most of its largely independent career, that pullback alone is a jarring change in direction. 

“By the time we hang it up in three years, I will have been on the road playing music for over 40 years,” he continues. “I’ve been at this so long, there’s not a lot of surprises anymore, and I’m ready to not have to be somewhere every weekend for a bit.”

Reckless Kelly’s three-year wind-down will begin in January at The MusicFest in Steamboat, Colorado, where the Brauns will play a high-profile set that has become a tradition for the band. The reason for the long goodbye, according to the members, is to ensure fans have opportunities to catch more shows without the pressure that a whirlwind farewell tour puts on both artist and audience.

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Aside from Steamboat, Reckless confirmed a handful of dates, including a Feb. 25 show at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, a return to Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth on May 27, a main-stage placement at Circus Mexicus — the annual festival hosted by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers in Puerto Penasco, Mexico — in June; and a Sept. 16 co-headlining concert with Jason Boland and the Stragglers at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Reckless has plans for at least one more full-length album — a follow-up to the 2020 double LP American Jackpot/American Girls released just as the pandemic shut down live music and scuttled a tour — along with multiple other unnamed projects, big and small, between now and 2025.

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The Brauns founded Reckless Kelly in Bend, Oregon, in summer 1996 when drummer Jay Nazz (his full name is Nazziola) happened upon Cody and Willy playing a jam session in a dive bar with two other members — but no drummer. Nazz asked if he could sit in, the Brauns said yeah, and within a year the band had a name, had moved to Austin, and had a steady gig on Sixth Street at the original Lucy’s Retired Surfer’s Bar. One of the band’s early managers was Robert Earl Keen , whom Willy credits with taking Reckless on their first major tours.

Since then, Reckless has released 10 studio albums and two live albums, toured internationally, built the annual Braun Brothers Reunion festival into a three-day event that has become the bellwether for the town of Challis, Idaho, and perhaps most importantly won over its musical peers in the Texas, Red Dirt, and wider Americana genres. Cross Canadian Ragweed’s cover of “Crazy Eddie’s Last Hurrah” in 2002 cemented both bands as the torchbearers for the roots-rock party scene that overtook college towns in Texas in the wake of Robert Earl Keen. Artists like Steve Earle, Suzy Bogguss, Roger Clyne, Ned LeDoux, and Turnpike Troubadours have all played the Braun Brothers Reunion.

The 2023 Reunion, set for Aug. 10-12, is incidentally what will keep Reckless Kelly’s next chapter open-ended. The Brauns put the festival on themselves, hand-selecting every artist that plays, and Cody says the plan is for Reckless to reunite to headline it annually. 

“It was almost frightening to play with those guys for the first time,” Englemen says. “I had had a lot of stuff happen before that and was pretty unsure with my footing. It was almost humbling, and I was just very blessed that they asked me to do that when they did.”

Along with the Brauns and Nazz, Reckless’ current makeup includes Joe Miller on bass guitar and Geoff Queen on steel guitar. “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had playing music,” says Queen, one of Austin’s most in-demand session musicians who joined Reckless after Engleman returned to Turnpike. “These guys are laid back and funny, but they’re professional and incredibly talented.”

Like the Brauns, Nazz comes from a musical family. When Reckless Kelly was nominated for a Grammy in 2021 for the artwork on their 2020 double album, Jay’s brother, Tom Nazziola, was also nominated in the Best Instrumental Composition category for his own work. Having been with the band since its inception, Nazz considers himself as much a part of the Braun family as Willy and Cody.

“We’re so fortunate to have Willy as a frontman,” says Nazz, who plans to continue playing drums in some fashion after Reckless powers down. “There’s no ego. He writes 99 percent of the songs, but he’s never trying to covet them like, ‘Don’t ruin my music!’ or anything like that. He made Reckless very comfortable for me. And Cody is so effortless. The execution of his own instrument is the last thing he ever has to think about. It just comes out naturally, and that makes it really easy for me as a drummer to keep pace.”

Long popular with other artists for his willingness to sit in with nearly anyone who asks, Cody has branched out into producing over the past year. When Clyne wanted to re-record a handful of his early songs — both from the Peacemakers and Clyne’s 1990s alt-rock outfit the Refreshments — he turned to Cody to produce “Never Thought,” which Clyne released as a single in early 2022.

Most of Willy’s songwriting, meanwhile, is grounded in his own life, in the same mold as his father and Bennett, but influenced just as much by wordsmiths like Tom Petty, Guy Clark, and Bob Dylan.

“What I always liked about this band was great songs being played by great musicians,” Reckless bassist Joe Miller says. “Willy has always had something to say, and it’s not dumbed down for the lowest common denominator. You’ve got to have a brain to hear this stuff.”

There is a range in Braun’s songwriting that rivals Americana heroes such as Jason Isbell and Todd Snider. Reckless is as popular for Braun’s ballads (like the introspective “Wicked Twisted Road” and the Hurricane Katrina-inspired “Godforsaken Town,” co-written with Keen) as it is for full-on rock jams like “Ragged as the Road” and “Nobody’s Girl.” They can follow an Irish jig (“Seven Nights in Eire”) with a pointed protest song (“American Blood”) and make it all sound uniquely theirs.

The band plans to dig deep into the Reckless Kelly catalog over the next three years, unearthing music that has rotated out of setlists so that each show can act as a retrospective. It’s difficult to hear them talk about their slow walk toward the sunset and not believe them when they say their crowds are their top priority.

“I want everyone who supported us to know how much we appreciated it over the years,” Cody Braun says. “In the independent world, you survive by the kindness of others. There are people who let us sleep on couches or play their clubs when we weren’t drawing flies, and the next three years are ones we’re looking at as a thank-you to those people.”

Clyne, who has toured and released music independently with the Peacemakers since 1998, understands Cody’s sentiments on the indie scenes in Americana. He tells Rolling Stone that sometimes the best thing artists can do for their own music is take time away from it.

In the absence of anything that would be considered a “big break,” Willy Braun says the mark left by Reckless Kelly is in the way the band prioritized its music and won over audiences on a show-by-show basis.

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Confirmed Reckless Kelly Tour Dates in 2023 Jan. 8-9 — Steamboat Springs, CO @ The MusicFest Feb. 25 — Houston, TX @ Livestock Show and Rodeo  May 27 — Fort Worth, TX @ Billy Bob’s June 10-11 — Puerto Penasco, Mexico @ Circus Mexicus June 17 — Kaycee, WY @ Chris LeDoux Days June 23-24 — New Braunfels, TX @ Gruene Hall Aug. 12 — Challis, ID @ Braun Brothers Reunion Aug. 18 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s BBQ Aug. 19 — Pampa, TX @ PampaFest  Sept. 16 —  Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium (with Jason Boland and the Stragglers)

Josh Crutchmer is the author of the 2020 book Red Dirt: Roots Music, Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, at Home Anywhere , and the upcoming title The Motel Cowboy Show: Mountain Music’s Path from Idaho to Austin, and the Side Roads in Between .

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