Hi everybody,
Each year the Austin Chronicle runs its Music Poll in the month of January.  You don’t have to live in Austin to vote. Please consider helping us out by voting for The Derailers.
Of course, we’d encourage you to vote for The Derailers in the Band category “Country/Bluegrass”.
We might also suggest you vote for the [...]

Hi everybody!
On Feb. 4, The Derailers will be kicking off a show with the great country music legend Ronnie Milsap! We’ll be performing with him at the Cendera Center in Ft. Worth Texas on Saturday February 4.  More information and tickets are available here.
Suffice to say, this will be an unforgettable evening of music you [...]

Friends,
We are very excited to be once again headed north up to St. Paul Minnesota. We’ll be on the season opener show of “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor and his excellent cast and band.
The show is broadcast live from 5-7pm and then we’ll be a part of a street dance and meatloaf supper [...]

Hey everybody!
We are embarking on our May 2011 “Jelly Donut Tour” very soon. The dates are listed here at derailers.com. We’ll be headed to the East Coast and points between. Near the end of the trip, we’ll appear once again on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennesee.
I will be writing a tour diary blog [...]

Hey friends,
Let me tell you about something really cool that will happening on Sunday evenings. The Derailers will be doing free shows at the Highball (1142 S. Lamar – right by the Alamo Draft House). These will occur on April 24 (Easter), May 1, and May 22 at 7:00.
This is the perfect bridge between Chicken [...]

Well, not really. But we DID get about as close as you can get without leaving the great state of Texas.
We have a very good friend in Astronaut Dr. Stephen K. Robinson. He was one of the first to take an ipod into outer space, and he used it to play one of our songs [...]

On September 25, The Derailers were proud to once again be a part of a live broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion”. The folks up there in St. Paul took really great care of us and we had a wonderful time. The production of that show at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater is [...]

We’re proud to announce the upcoming release of our new live album, “The Derailers Live! From Texas” due out October 26th! Please keep up on the latest news and tour dates here, and more immediately on our official Facebook page. Come help us celebrate the release of our long-awaited live recording with [...]

Music fans,
Let me tell you about an exciting event that is right around the corner!
The Armadillo Shootout will be happening at Threadgill’s South Tuesday August 24. There will be three bands playing that night: The Doug Moreland Show at 7, Two Tons of Steel at 8, and your pals The Derailers at 9.
This is [...]