The last time Jason Boland tried to celebrate a career milestone the pandemic shut down the 20th Anniversary tour, scheduled to celebrate the release of his debut Pearl Snaps record. He took advantage of that downtime to write and record his sci-fi concept album The Light Saw Me, then released a live album recorded at the venerable Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. Now, it’s time for another landmark date in the history of the Stragglers and it arrives on March 14th via Thirty Tigers. The Last Kings of Babylon celebrates a quarter-century of Red Dirt excellence by one of the cornerstones of the genre. Jason describes the record as “a mirror, a retrospective, a reflection of everywhere we’ve been and everything we’ve learned over the last 25 years on the road.”