Gail, Texas  ·  Population 249  ·  Since 1985

Where tradition lives and the legends play.

A café with a stage that seats 1,150  ·  Three-time Josie Award Independent Venue of the Year

See who's coming Season passes
0People in town
0Seats at the show
0Doors first opened
0Josie Awards
0Feet above sea level

The town holds two hundred forty-nine people.
The stage holds four and a half towns.

How it happened

It started
with a porch.

Nobody set out to build a concert hall in a town of 249 people. It just kept getting bigger.

"Rumor tells that the Coyote Store is in the middle of nowhere. The truth is, we're in the middle of everywhere." — The Coyote Store
1985

Bertie opens the doors

Bertie Copeland runs a grocery store and diner at the crossroads of US 180 and FM 669. Thirty seats. Good food. An hour south of Lubbock and not much else around.

The ask

"Can we play here?"

A gospel group wants to put on a concert. There is nowhere to put them — thirty seats and a kitchen. So Bertie's granddaughter, Becky, offers them the front porch.

After

The porch becomes a stage

A roof goes up over the front of the tin building. Walls get framed in out of recycled wood pallets. What was a porch is now a stage, and it never went back.

Now

Becky Justice-Ford runs it

Eleven hundred and fifty seats under the West Texas sky. Her sons load in the gear and build the website. Her daughter runs the merch table. Shows sell out months ahead.

The roll call

They all made
the drive.

Gail has one blinking light and no stoplight to speak of. These are some of the names that have stood on the Coyote stage anyway.

A partial roll call, pulled from public setlist records. Forty years of Saturday nights don't all make it into a database — ask anyone at the fish fry and they'll name ten more.

2026 Season

Still to come.

Two shows left on the 2026 calendar. Tickets at the Coyote go on sale months ahead and sell out well before show day — that's not a sales line, that's just what happens.

Saturday · October 4 · 2026

Jefferson
Starship

Rock and roll hall of fame lineage, out under the mesas.

—Days
—Hours
—Minutes
BYOBReserved tables
Get tickets Showtime posted at the store
Saturday · October 17 · 2026

Neal
McCoy

Back again. He played the Coyote in 2025 and they brought him right back.

—Days
—Hours
—Minutes
BYOBReserved tables
Get tickets Showtime posted at the store

2027 Season Passes

Get your seat
before the season does.

Season holders get seated first. Everyone else is seated in the order they bought, behind them. If there's a show you don't want to miss, this is how you don't miss it.

Annual Pass

Coyote General

$299.99
Per person · 2027 season
  • General admission to every Coyote concert
  • Every event of the 2027 show season
  • Walk in whenever you like
Take this one
Annual Pass

Coyote Couples

$899.99
Two people · 2027 season
  • 2 reserved seats, all season long
  • Same table, every show
  • Seated ahead of general ticket buyers
Take this one
Most picked
Annual Pass

Couples Pass +

$1,299.99
Two people · 2027 season
  • 2 reserved seats, all season long
  • 2 meals every single show
  • 1 free color pass per show
  • Show up hungry, leave happy
Take this one
Annual Pass

Coyote Silver

$2,999.99
Eight seats · 2027 season
  • 8 reserved seats, all season long
  • Banner advertising at the venue
  • Bring the crew or bring the clients
Take this one
Annual Pass

Coyote Gold

$4,299.99
Eight seats · 2027 season
  • 8 reserved seats with 8 meals per show
  • Banner advertising at the venue
  • 1 free color pass per show
  • Special access parking
Take this one

Not ready
for a season?

Single-show tickets go on sale months ahead and they do go. Get on the list and you'll hear first.

Tell me when tickets drop

Know before you go

A few things
worth knowing.

Is there a bar?

BYOB

Borden County is dry — alcohol sales are prohibited, full stop. So the Coyote is bring-your-own. Buy your drinks before you get to Gail, because there is nowhere out here to buy them. There's a $10 cooler charge at the gate.

Where exactly is this place?

The intersection of FM 669 and US 180, in Gail — the seat of Borden County, right where the Permian Basin runs into the Plains. About 72 miles south of Lubbock, 80 miles north of Midland, and a twenty-minute run from Snyder.

Where do I sleep after?

Hotel: the Coyote partners with the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Snyder — (325) 573-0376.

RV: campers are welcome and there are usually plenty. The Coyote Den RV Park takes reservations at (806) 777-5376, and full-hookup spaces are limited, so book well ahead. Self-contained campers can park free at spots around the venue.

Where will I be sitting?

Season table and season pass holders are seated first. After that, ticket buyers are seated in the order they bought. Reserved seating is at tables — individuals, and groups of four, eight and ten.

Shows typically go on sale many months out and sell out well before show day. Plan early.

Can I eat there?

You can. The café is the whole reason this place exists. Fish Fry Friday is its own event. Good food, good friends, good music, good times — in about that order.

What else is in Gail?

The Borden County Museum sits directly across the street and opens on concert days. Come early, walk through it, then walk over. The whole town is about a hundred yards wide.

Got pictures from a show?

Post them with #LegendaryCoyote on Facebook and they may end up in the gallery.

Getting here

The middle of everywhere.

72mi
South of Lubbock
80mi
North of Midland
20mi
From Snyder
1turn
Off the highway

FM 669 & US 180  ·  100 W Wasson Road  ·  Gail, Texas