Details: 2025 release. 25 years doing anything is nothing to scoff at, especially when it's the hardscrabble business of music. Neither is being one of the true originators of Red Dirt music like Jason Boland and the Stragglers. Since 1998, they've been defying odds, helping to define the indefinable sound of Red Dirt, and doing it without the aid of Nashville. Now Jason Boland releases the 11th album in his arsenal, The Last Kings of Babylon. To produce the album, Boland and the boys returned to where it all began with legendary Texas/Red Dirt producer Lloyd Maines who also produced the band's debut.