Turnpike Troubadours - The Rut (Official Visualizer)

[@MrDillon45]

He didn’t kill the bull. He just “lived there in the moment.” I feel that. I’ve lived that. Just hunted for the sake of being out there. Brilliantly written.

[@seanmallory1209]

Yep, I passed on a few excellent opportunities on Whitetail Deer. Just to enjoy the moment!

[@mccoma11]

I watched the best buck of my life feed along a hillside. I had him in my scope for 30 min straight, but I enjoyed the moment so much, I let him walk. I felt this one in my soul.

[@MrDillon45]

@@mccoma11 man that’s awesome. What a cool memory.

[@aaronwindell3812]

I lived a few missed shots that I can’t forget haha

[@ChasinBugles]

yall must be rich, i shoot first legal bull or buck on sight

[@chrisbroadwater9479]

A masterpiece. That chorus is everything. We’re all in the middle of different lives, different ruts, but we’ll ride it out. With a little elevation and an open-ended prayer. Thank you for sharing these gifts with us.

[@joshmayes7295]

To one person, it's a hunting song. To another, it's about life changes. To another, it's about all the changes and that comfortable place in the middle of all the turmoil. This may be the greatest narrative he's written.

[@josie4065]

As a Montana boy, this song is the perfect gift in anticipation of the rut. I've been listening to the whole album on repeat for the last 3 1/2 hours, but this one especially hits home.

[@marcuse9030]

Same here, in NW Montana. This one really got me on the drive in to work this morning.

[@jkk4657]

Oh it will be another 5 years until I get drawn for elk…AZ. I need to pay you boys a visit

[@taco8033]

Wyoming agrees too !

[@abandonedxship]

@@jkk4657nah we’re full. Go otc in Colorado

[@aaronwindell3812]

Wyoming, heading out for the rest of the month tomorrow to the rutting bulls! Good lawd the song hits

[@joekelly9188]

This song means the world to me. Different times, different places, different seasons, but all the same feelings

[@joe31986able]

This is my favorite by far. The whole album is great but this one hits home.

[@joe31986able]

I think I've changed my mind. Lucille just might be my favorite turnpike song ever. It's hard to say. Every song is like a "bonfire that burns in the back of my mind."

[@takeahikemt8931]

@@joe31986ableamen

[@davidcharlemagne6785]

You guys can’t make bad music. This probably my favorite album yet. Brought Me and The Rut are my personal favorites.

[@lt.lasereyez8891]

To Evan and the guys, you guys are brilliant, you guys deserve more exposure. cheers from the Netherlands to Oklahoma!

[@gregs157]

Just heard this and the interview on Electric Rodeo. This lyric, Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in, hit me hard as i was driving. 50 years old this year and a rut is what I've been stuck in for years. Hopefully coming out the other side soon.

[@williamcole4612]

Keep climbing brother.

[@Wanderlust073]

Best song on the album for me.

[@meelomoo]

This song really hits hard. The ruts that I’ve been in I genuinely just had to ride out. There’s nothing you can do but ride it out. Even after all the turmoil and hardship you deal with you will come back to the mountains and they’re all still standing there. There are things in life that are never changing and steadfast. This song really conveys that and makes you feel the riding out of the rut you have to go through.

[@jeremypittman3945]

I get so much out of ever one of their songs. I can relate in so many ways! Especially getting sober and straight! God Bless My Neighbors to the North!

[@joegoffeney]

@Jeremy Pittman, Thank you for sharing this song with me & thank God for giving us both “a little Elevation and an open-ended prayer” out on the Ridge where our journey’s intersected. You’re a lifelong friend & brother.

[@skozer22]

I'm very grateful for the new material. This one is my favorite so far.

[@WesternWandererJM]

Great to hear a heartfelt hunting song from a legit outdoorsman. Hope someday to cross paths with you and Corb in the early Fall as the Aspens are turning.

[@forskinvinak4799]

Man Evan can really paint a picture in my mind such a great song writer

[@Helio-Medeiros]

Love this guys. Seriously! Seems like they wrote those songs about me, abrazilian boy a thousand miles away from Tusla. Thanks Felker. Don't even know you and I guess I never will but we certainly could be really good friends.

[@bfrbradleyfamilyracing7139]

TT music is timeless, and has refreshing honesty in every song. Love it fellas!!

[@marcuse9030]

This is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Much love from MT.

[@dylanstokes3749]

I think this song is extremely underrated. I can listen to it on repeat

[@noah-ix8tr]

"just lived there in the moment" absolutely bars. I felt that. Any hunter can relate to just be there to be out there

[@Aqua_Holic_Fishing]

We all find these seasons or ruts in our lives. Keep grinding y’all, hunt, fish and find time alongside Mother Nature it’s what helps us battle some of these ruts. Much love and respect for any of y’all currently in a rut. Sunny days are ahead.

[@EverythingOutdoors10]

This is one of my favorites. Physically impossible for you guys to make a bad song. Everything is amazing

[@squishykittys]

Finally getting out of my rut and it’s a beautiful thing!!!

[@deannarobinson4065]

Thank you, Felker…. For coming back to the 🏔 mountains.

[@josephtubb3651]

Hey, Evan I don't know what it's worth to ya but I just wanted to thank you and your band mates for making your long awaited comeback to the stage that you guys belong on. Your music has lifted me in some seriously bleek times since I've come home from Afghanistan. So, thank you, TT. Love and thanks from Northeast TX

[@johnathonmounce2265]

Stop trying to get sympathy my guy it was a job

[@toridickerson3917]

Thank you for your service.

[@toridickerson3917]

⁠@@johnathonmounce2265You’re a big man, I can tell from your degrading comment. Not one time did he ask for anything. Just simply stating how turnpike troubadour music resonates with him. Sorry you’re so dense you can’t read between the lines. Anyways, we all love this new album and I’m glad it touches each part of our hearts in different ways 🩷

[@josephtubb3651]

@@johnathonmounce2265 if I wanted sympathy I'd called your mother for a handy.

[@jeremypittman3945]

Thank you for your service! I get it, they have lifted my spirits in dark times!

[@MM-qy7ge]

2 bottles so the mules are balanced and getting that grouse really hits home. Hope you Boys know the impact your stories have on some of us.

[@jeremypittman3945]

They sure know how to make you feel it in your Soul!

[@cubsfan696]

Absolutely awesome fellas. Love that Tele and sound. Oh ya, and the elk hunting!!!!! Finally a hunting song that encapsulated that feel.

[@JasonMar-ze8ww]

This group of men can take music to another level for this country boy

[@jeremiahnewton8949]

This song takes me to the woods in my mind and the melody soothes my soul guys. I am a song writer and fellow picker as well as a hunter. Weather the tree or the blind most my songs have been written there. When I'm holding my browning i need my Taylor. When I'm strumming my Taylor I want to hold my browning. I love your music.....Thank you from the 53 North band.

[@drewandcharlie7583]

Living the steps of your old life with a new mind. Beautiful. Truly. In the moment. All we can do. An open-ended prayer.

[@MrDillon45]

Awesome song

[@bradtoepfer289]

Lots of meanings to this song! And the bridge..great tune

[@jessicamckinley9101]

One of my favorite songs ever! Such a beautiful message played so beautifully. So relatable. It's been on repeat. Thank you.

[@jakeacker5381]

Killed my bull sept 8th and he was bugling his head off in the mountains. Smoked a cigar, sipped whiskey, and listened to this song around the wood stove in our wall tent. Thank you for writing one that feels like it’s written for me

[@ifishforfoodnottrophys7483]

Congrats on your bull

[@dannyb2783]

Such a great tune. Pairs well the Birdhunters. Leaving to Wyoming in September for a archery elk hunt. Will be listening to this on the way

[@Phil22Smith]

Thank you guys for making music again!

[@johnwillard6198]

Never forget seeing ya at Red Ants pants and hearin long drive home for the first time the way that fiddle and lead guitar played against each other was outstanding so glad you’re back You guys love the new album. Thanks from Butte Montana.

[@noeleon78]

❤ loving this one Great to hear yall and the new album 🎉

[@MrTimleedy]

This may be the best hunting song ever written! They captured it.

[@itsmychannel]

And it is barely about hunting. It’s as much about experiencing the same things sober and seeing he can still do them and enjoy the world. About sometimes you just have to ride out the ruts until and know “tomorrow is full of promise, and just live in the moment”. It’s as much about hunting as ‘the bird hunters’ which is also barely about hunting. Which is the beauty of Evans writing

[@Pippy187]

This song absolutely guts me

[@brianjennings7644]

that's so sweet.

[@TheJJballaz]

It’s insane because I have so many favorite turnpike songs… But this might be my favorite

[@travismoore47]

The only group that will write about quail hunting and elk hunting. Both are bad ass songs and twist it to relate to every day life.

[@ramsayprine2921]

My friend showed me this video and I’m back for the 3rd time! Hard times don’t last but new friends do! 💯

[@LFC911]

Great timing for the opening of archery season!

[@wcbfarrier]

Love, love, love it!

[@MarrymeLeraLynn]

Gents, thank you for this soulful song.

[@Superstreaker007]

Much love from Michigan Boys, nice work

[@wyowolf69]

just brilliant

[@daniellemartin5645]

So excited for this new album!

[@lt.lasereyez8891]

mine is still in the mail!

[@kevinlong1104]

Just took my 2 boys out last week.. killed 2 bulls .. this song hits home with that trip… !!! Thanku!!!

[@BrentHumphrey-r1u]

Just beautiful!

[@chrisroberts908]

Love it! Rich, deep, yet simple, and relatable

[@Rachel0731]

Love it. ❤

[@sc0utteam]

Banger

[@HititFromTheBank]

Early fall descended on the dry back country Aspens It could be any time now that the bulls start bugling I watched the pack mule panniers, see the loads are riding even Is it in my mind or did I finally hear one sing? It's been ten years since I first came to the mountains with my father A half pint in each saddle bag and stars in both my eyes I don't miss the taste of liquor or really anything about it But the temporary shelter was a welcome compromise Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open-ended prayer Holdin' out for more than breakin' even I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standin' there The bull had come in tight and he was screamin' in dark timber I could see his brown eyes movin', hear him breathin' as he wheeled But tomorrow full of promise, I just lived there in the moment Hunted back door camp for enough grouse to make a meal Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open-ended prayer Holdin' out for more than breakin' even Well, I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standin' there Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open-ended prayer Holdin' out for more than breakin' even I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standin' there

[@southdakotacoyotehunter8553]

Thanks for being awesome ❤

[@redneck04]

Favorite song off the album

[@pduarte07]

Best song on the album!

[@WesternSlopePursuit]

man archery season just ended here in Colorado, and this song made me tear up reminiscing through the memories. thank you for this

[@lfish21.]

Hot take. One of TT’s best songs.

[@heiser93]

Can’t wait to play this at elk camp in a few weeks reminiscing on the days ups and downs

[@troutpeakleatherworks]

me and my family listen to it all day

[@jaredbemish7241]

God I missed y’all …. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@nancyhart4717]

Love THIS!! TT keep it coming 😊😊

[@Pennebaker1]

Great tune

[@josephkuplack3398]

Great song

[@duanerykhus9425]

Thank you :)

[@staciespencer4370]

Favorite song 🫶🏽

[@samhianblackmoon]

Good stuff 👍🏽

[@barryjones3915]

phenomenal. more pure gold from these guys. nobody captures imagery like evan.

[@rdr1035]

Mountains still standing there, yes sir

[@oldben1800]

If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you Mountains crumble to the sea There will still be you and me

[@ThomasJumper-kh4fs]

Being a Tahlequah boy becoming a man in this world, this song makes me really feel the lyrics

[@MrDillon45]

I’m from red oak and same!! They represent Oklahoma very well.

[@BRM202]

Yay!

[@jeremiahkvale5569]

Another great tune for everyone to drunkenly sing together

[@jeremiahkvale5569]

And thank you turnpike!

[@Savageritter]

Particularly the part about not missing the taste of liqueur cause he's sober now lol

[@WataugaFlightService]

Unless you have walked through aspens and smelled that fall smell and heard the bulls screaming you won’t get this song! Awesome some TT!

[@ifishforfoodnottrophys7483]

I’ve watched utube vids of elk hunting but never done when I heard this song I knew it was about elk hunting

[@nunovyobeeswax4177]

Nothing like Turnpike Troubadours, a strong drink, a smoke & a toke, on a long hot summer day...👍

[@Freedom_Aint_Comfort]

Top 3 on album

[@ChasinBugles]

new elk camp theme song!!

[@JayJonesy11]

What's this song about? I love it. Coming from Montana.

[@geoffparker6956]

For me the song is about this man's relationship with the wild wilderness and where it began. With dual meaning on all of it . The other side being his relationship with liquor coexisting with his hunting and all parts of his life. And the new beginning to return to the mountains that are still there yet changed as he has with the absence of liquor. Rising to hunt the rut and rising from the rut of something that has felt like a part of who u are, to have the strength and courage to lose that part of u and continue on without alcohol. Things feel and look different yet he stands to face both of the ruts ,takeing either for what they are worth to him . And that is big ,making that man a giant to me and he deserves a mountain of respect !

[@thomasgarner343]

Looking forward to your DC show 9/23

[@RoseSmith-yu3yt]

Elk rut when they are trying to find a mate.

[@IAnonymous3]

They just had this song on Landman….. and Josh Meloy in the beginning.

[@VladVictarion]

damn

[@corinawhitaker3808]

Everytime I go look for elk I listen to this song

[@IdkEli_]

Landman brought me here

[@scottfischer6638]

Just wondering what he was hunting with... if he let the Elk pass and just lived there in the moment and then hunted back towards camp n got enough grouse to make a meal.. elk usually you have a high powered rifle, grouse usually a shotgun...or maybe they were bow hunting...

[@paigewhitworth7239]

This song sounds so familiar. Does anyone know what song it sounds like? I can’t figure it out

[@zachjacobs6324]

This song sounds exactly like another song that came out the past year or two. Someone please help it’s driving me crazy, I was thinking it was Tyler Childers but I can’t seem to find it.

[@spencerkloc2893]

Biggest turnpike fan in the world, but mannn this song sounds just like Blacksheep by Cody Jinks

[@johnjohnson1438]

Ummm….nah

[@jasonlivers4293]

Can’t wait for Buckeye 2024!