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Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds performing at Stagecoach 2025. The band is back on the road this fall. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Johnny Blue Skies (a.k.a. Sturgill Simpson) and his band the Dark Clouds will hit the road this fall in support of their latest album, Mutiny After Midnight.
The 29-date “Mutiny for the Masses Tour” will kick off Sept. 4 at the Moody Center in Austin and wrap Oct. 30 at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 10, at 10 a.m. local time, with presales slated to begin April 8 at 10 a.m. local time. In an effort to combat scalping, Simpson will be using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange and AXS Resale platforms so fans can resell tickets to other fans at the original price point.
The Mutiny for the Masses Tour marks Simpson’s first run since his extensive tour in support of 2024’s Passage du Desir (his first album under the Johnny Blue Skies moniker). That run earned rave reviews and established JBS and the Dark Clouds as one of the best live bands working now. The group played for about three hours every night, and shows were regularly recorded professionally and released the next day. This upcoming run will likely feature more marathon sets, with no opener scheduled to join JBS and the Dark Clouds.
Mutiny After Midnight was released on March 13, with the album only available on CD, vinyl, and cassette. While the album was put on YouTube for a week ahead of its official release, it has otherwise yet to hit streaming services. (Though as of today, April 1, it’s available to buy as a digital download via iTunes.)
In a statement, Simpson said he would probably put the album up on streaming “at some point,” and explained his physical-only release strategy as a way to “support and show solidarity with independent record shops and to promote an increasingly bygone physical and tangible connection between music and music fans.” (The move also helped Mutiny After Midnight hit Number Three on the Billboard 200 albums chart, matching the peak achieved by his landmark 2016 LP A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.)
