Last night, Orville Peck brought the Man Turned Mule Tour to House of Blues Anaheim. The performance followed the tour’s opening night at Channel 24 in Sacramento, marking the start of Peck’s North American headline run in support of his latest album, Mule, out now via Warner Records.

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Following an opening set from Abbie Callahan, Peck took the stage with “Big Ol’ House”. The set included songs from Mule, including “Already Gone”, “Too Little, Too Late”, “Rehab Blues”, and “Ring The Bell”, alongside fan favorites “Dead Of Night”, “Daytona Sand”, and more.

The production brings a rundown honky-tonk to life, with details and easter eggs referencing different points throughout Peck’s career. The elaborate set also features interactive moments with Peck and his band, including surprise appearances from the opening act or special guests.

The tour supports Mule, Peck’s latest album and a candid chronicle of the year that reshaped his life. Blending classic country, bluegrass, and expansive Americana, it traces a journey through addiction, sobriety, love, loss, and identity.

The first leg of the Man Turned Mule Tour, comprised of 19 shows, continues tonight in Phoenix, AZ at The Van Buren, before making stops in Madison, Chicago, Brooklyn, Toronto, and more before concluding at The Paramount in Huntington, NY on Sunday, November 22.

MAN TURNED MULE TOUR 2026 DATES:

Wed, Oct 28 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24 =

Thu, Oct 29 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues

Fri, Oct 30 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren

Sun, Nov 1 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom =

Tue, Nov 3 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory

Wed, Nov 4 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee

Thu, Nov 5 – Milwaukee, WI – Landmark Credit Union Live

Fri, Nov 6 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed

Sun, Nov 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met

Mon, Nov 9 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount

Tue, Nov 10 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount

Fri, Nov 13 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle

Sat, Nov 14 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz

Sun, Nov 15 – Nashville, TN – The Truth

Tue, Nov 17 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY

Wed, Nov 18 – Ottawa, ON – Hard Rock Live Ottawa

Thu, Nov 19 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS

Sat, Nov 21 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Sun, Nov 22 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount

= Non LN Date

ABOUT ORVILLE PECK

Orville Peck’s Mule is a sweeping, chronological epic that narrativizes the year 2023—or, as Orville knows it, the year he “hit rock bottom before finally getting sober.” It’s January of that year, and Orville’s just returned home from a trip with his partner that culminated in their breakup. Single and alone in Los Angeles, as we find him on “Big ‘Ol House,” Orville gives in to his destructive impulses: drinking, partying, drugging. The light at the end of the tunnel seems far in the distance. Where Pony, Bronco, and Stampede wove together bits and pieces of Orville’s life and learnings, Mule takes a linear (though not always straight) path through the hardest year of the artist’s life. Its title (also the album’s closing track) gets its name from a simple place of inspiration and comparison: “To me, the image of a mule is somehow misunderstood,” Orville says. “A mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey bred specifically for work. Mules cannot reproduce. They are trapped between two worlds, maybe always trying to figure out which one they belong to. They are known allegorically for being hard-working, stubborn, a burden, resilient. I think that it is hard to be a mule… but I’m also glad that I am one.” Throughout Mule, listeners will hear high highs and low lows. “They’re always knocking at the door / You get a bed but you use the floor / They watch you take the pills / No thrills / No TV after 9,” he sings on “Rehab Blues.” But “I didn’t leave sober,” he says. “I left thinking that now at least I had control of my drinking and that I wasn’t an alcoholic, that I was smarter than that, that I was better than other people that had gone to rehab—or at least that I was different. So I went straight back to partying and being insane.” That story gets told in all its messy glory (and embarrassment) on “Ring The Bell.” Rock bottom comes one night in downtown New York, chronicled in “The Fall.” Later, “Cowboy Heart” starts “with me walking down Hollywood Boulevard with seemingly everything I ever wanted in life: a big career, fans that love to buy my music, money for the first time in my life, a home, a car, and so much more,” he says. “But then I realize I’ve never been more lost.” On the 11 o’clock number, “War Of The Worlds,” a vocal stacked Orville—clearheaded, sober, and calm—tackles the duality of man versus artist once more. The future is bright. In its 13-song journey, Mule further cements Orville Peck’s singular lock on songwriting, storytelling, and song-making in this industry. Its depths reward multiple revisitations; its melodies and harmonies will continue to surprise and amaze with each repeated listen. Mule might find Orville, at times, at his lowest, but it finds him not only picking up the pieces, but a finding a better Orville along the way.

ABOUT ABBIE CALLAHAN

Raised Catholic in Iowa City, Abbie’s lifelong curiosity for the unseen now drives her playful songwriting, leading her to country music almost by accident as she filled cover sets at Nashville honkytonks. Her superpower is vulnerable whimsy: sharp, self-deprecating, drawn to change, and unapologetically herself 24/7.

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