In February 2025, the six-member group comprised of founding member Read Southall plus Reid Barber, Jeremee Knipp, Braxton Curliss, John Tyler Perry, and Ryan Wellman will play the iconic San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo opening for Turnpike Troubadours.
The Smoklahoma Records act first joined forces in 2015, playing dancehalls and bars all across the country. Six String Sorrow, originally a mostly acoustic solo project for Read Southall, led to the formation of what we now know as, Southall – the band. This record not only launched the band’s career but eventually led to nods from top-tier sources like Rolling Stone, saying they defy genres and “infuse rock and metal into the band’s coffee shop vibe.”
Formerly known as Read Southall Band, the GOLD-certified group (“Why”) has five albums behind them, boasts nearly 600 MILLION total streams, and has 1.2 MILLION cumulative monthly listeners. They spent the last few years building a rabid grassroots following on the road across the country, winning over crowds alongside Whiskey Myers, Jamey Johnson, Blackberry Smoke and Chase Rice, and on their headlining run as an epic breakout takes shape.