Tuck & Patti have booked four nights at DC’s Blues Alley in January; Taj Mahal adds a couple of dates in VT and VA and Ludacris travels to Oklahoma and Georgia this month.

Juliette & The Licks play San Fran in December; Shemekia Copeland adds Michigan and New York and Billy Joe Shaver beefs up his schedule with dates in Texas and Oklahoma.

During the last 90 minutes we also updated the schedules for Aaron Watson, Acoustic Syndicate, Bleu Edmondson, Cory Morrow, Bruce Robison, Guy Forsyth, Jackson Taylor, Kyle Park, Carolyn Wonderland, Maceo Parker, Ryan Turner and Zack Walther and the Cronkites.

But the old tour date machine is just warming up! Be sure to catch your Midday Update around 12 noon (PST) from Pollstar.com!