The Sheridan, Wyoming Americana band brings two nights to the Black Hills this weekend, with a new album not far behind.
Ten years of long weekends on the road adds up. The Two Tracks out of Sheridan, Wyoming have been doing the math on that for a while now, and they are not close to done. They have full-time jobs and families back home, they tour in whatever windows they can find, and they have never really chased anything beyond making music that holds up. Led by husband-and-wife Dave and Julie Huebner, the quartet is rounded out by bassist Taylor Phillips and drummer Fernando Serna. Dave plays both guitar and cello, and it is the cello that sits at the center of the band’s sound, not as texture or accent, but as the thing the music is built around.
“We’ve never had illusions of some sort of fame,” says Dave Huebner. “More we just wanted to create good music that people cared about.”
That framing sounds modest until you think about how hard it is to hold onto. They tour in long weekends and the occasional week-long stretch, working their way through the West and back again. Their previous record, Cheers to Solitude, landed in the top 40 on Americana radio. They did not make a big thing of it. They just kept going.
Their next studio album, Seasons Unknown, comes out June 5. The lead single, Mexico By Friday, drops April 24. They recorded it in Nashville with Grammy-nominated producer Will Kimbrough, five-time Grammy-winning engineer Sean Sullivan, and four-time Grammy-winning mixer Trina Shoemaker.
Before any of that, they have two shows in the Black Hills this weekend. Friday, April 3, they play The Matthews Opera House in Spearfish at 7 p.m., with tickets available in advance. Saturday, April 4, they are at The Custer Beacon at 7 p.m., donation at the door.
The two venues this weekend are genuinely different spaces, and the band pays attention to that. The Matthews gives the band room to pull the sound down, let the cello carry more of the weight. The Beacon is looser, more casual, the kind of room where the band and the crowd end up a lot closer together.
“What’s fun about our music is that it’s always appropriate for any venue we play.”
That is less a boast than an observation about what Americana can do when the writing is solid enough to carry different configurations.
The Two Tracks have been coming to the Black Hills for years and have friends here. They are also playing some new material, so the setlists will have some things people have not heard yet alongside songs from a catalog they have been building since the beginning.
When asked what sticks with them from the road, the answer is specific:
Walking the Blue Ridge Parkway, catching a super bloom in the Nevada desert, a bad night of sleep in a humid Midwestern hotel room before an early departure. The songs come from the adventure along the way. Ten years of that, and they are still telling people the same thing: “Take a chance on bands you don’t know. Give it a try.”
Friday, April 3 / Matthews Opera House
in Spearfish / 7 p.m. / Tickets available in advance
Saturday, April 4 / The Custer Beacon
in Custer / 7 p.m. / Donation at the door
NEW ALBUM:
Seasons Unknown out June 5, 2026.
Single Mexico By Friday available April 24.
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