December 14, 2016 5:53PM ET

Josh Abbott Band Plot 2017 Live It While You’ve Got It Tour

Texas sextet behind 2015 concept album ‘Front Row Seat’ will be on road through March

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Texas sextet the Josh Abbott Band are hitting the road in the New Year on their recently-announced Live It While You Got It Tour. The trek begins at the end of this month with a two-night stint at Houston, TX’s House of Blues.

The band is touring in support of their most recent album, 2015’s Front Row Seat. A concept album that chronicles the entire story of a failed relationship (in this case, it was Abbott’s marriage to his now ex-wife), Front Row Seat was an independent success and hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Independent Albums Chart. Their current single “Amnesia” features an emotional, sci-fi inspired music video.

“Front Row Seat really was representative of what we we’re doing here,” Abbott told Rolling Stone Country last year. “That’s a song by Ruston Kelly, and it’s all about having a front row seat, having this access to someone’s life. Anybody that is married, you have a front row seat to her life and she has one to yours. We’re kind of giving the fans a front row seat, not only to our band but to my story.”

Last month, Abbott and his band covered George Strait’s 2006 hit – and CMA Song of the Year winner – “Give It Away” in support of Strait out of the Box: Part 2, a recently released greatest hits compilation.

Current Josh Abbott Band tour dates:

December 30-31 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues 
January 6-7 – Ft. Worth, TX @ Billy Bob’s Texas 
January 13-14 – New Braunfels, TX @ Gruene Hall 
January 20-21 – Denver, CO @ Grizzly Rose 
January 25 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room 
January 26 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre – Studio B 
January 27 – Springfield, IL @ Boondocks 
January 28 – Rosemont, IL @ Joe’s Live 
February 3 – Norman, OK @ Riverwind Casino 
February 10 – San Antonio, TX @ Cowboys Dance Hall 
February 11 – Donna, TX @ Chisholm Trail Festival 
February 17 – College Station, TX @ TBD 
February 25 – El Paso, TX @ Texas Country Music Festival 
March 1 – Boston, MA @ TBD 
March 2 – Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall  
March 3 – Washington, DC @ TBD 
March 4 – New York City, NY @ TBD 
March 8 – Warrendale, PA @ Jergel’s Rhythm Grille 
March 9 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection 
March 10 – Indianapolis, IN @ 8 Seconds Saloon 
March 11 – Rootstown, OH @ Dusty Armadillo 
March 15 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile 
March 17 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory 
March 18 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 
March 22 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post 
March 23 – Bakersfield, CA @ Buck Owen’s Crystal Palace 
March 24 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 
March 26 – Anaheim, CA @ The Parish House of Blues Anaheim