The Droptines were used to playing simple dive bars and rock rooms. Their worldview changed this summer when they went on an amphitheater tour with Whiskey Myers .

By the time the Texas roots-rock band’s opening run for Whiskey Myers ended with a sold-out show in Nashville earlier this summer, the five-piece — named after a deer’s antler that, through genetics or injury, grows downward — nearly had whiplash over how far they had come.

“It feels like an acid trip,” Conner Arthur, the band’s singer, tells Rolling Stone . “There will be a lot to unpack after it’s all done. I need to start journaling, because I feel like I’ve forgotten a lot already.”

The Droptines are Arthur, bassist Dillon Sampson, drummer Johnny Sheets, pedal steel player Tony Rincon, and guitarist Donny Parkinson.

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