A Red Dirt country band from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, active since 2005 (but on hiatus as of 2019). Known for their talented instrumental work and knack for storytelling.
Discography:
- Bossier City
- Diamonds and Gasoline
- Goodbye Normal Street
- Turnpike Troubadours
- A Long Way From Your Heart
The Turnpike Tropadours:
- Heel Realization: "7 & 7."Well I had no clue
I'd be the boy who
Your mama warned you about - Hurricane of Aphorisms: "Down Here," although it changes around the wording of several sayings in order to make them rhyme.
- In Medias Res: "The Bird Hunters" starts with a very impressionistic verse about hunting quail in the backwoods, before transitioning to what's really on the narrator's mind.
- Job Song: "Long Hot Summer Day," about running barges on the Illinois River.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: "Every Girl" borders on this trope.
- Old Dog: Jim, in "The Bird Hunters."Dan says "Look at old Jim! A dozen Decembers
"Behind him, no worse for the wear
"And your time spent in Tulsa did not help your shooting
"And look at the grey in your hair" - The One That Got Away: Several times, notably in "7 & 7."That old scene is always coming to me
I see you standing with your husband and your child
And you're a picture of strength and grace and beauty
And me I'm just a fool in a supermarket aisle
Well I know "hello" would surely end up awkward
I never had a knack for talking anyway
You're not the kind for bending over backwards
So I smiled and turned my shopping cart around and walked away - Stranger in a Familiar Land: "The Bird Hunters."
- Title Drop: "The Housefire" has one for the album ''A Long Way from Your Heart."We snuck away two nights ago, rode around the logging roads
We'd been stuck in a motor home about to fall apart
We finally made a go, got dealt a heavy blow
She said, I bet you make it, it's a long way from your heart - The 'Verse: The girl named Lorrie (as in "Good Lord Lorrie") also appears in the songs "The Mercury" and "The Housefire."note The latter song, as well as "The Bird Hunters," have references to the narrator owning a Browning shotgun, possibly the same one. Jimmy, the main character in "The Funeral," also appears in "The Mercury."
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Dan and the narrator in "The Bird Hunters." "Every Girl" also shows up on the quotes page.
