Brother Cane announced that they will continue to promote their latest album with a new round of tour dates starting in December.

The most recent additions to their schedule will find them visiting Texas for a four-pack of concerts, including a Dec. 4 stop in Austin where the ’90s rockers will share the stage with previous tourmates Kansas. Tickets and VIP packages are on sale now.

More information is available at the band’s official website, and they say that fans can expect additional shows to be announced.

Key Highlights

• Upcoming Tour: Brother Cane will start a new tour in December 2026.
• Texas Concerts: They will perform four shows in Texas, including Austin on Dec. 4.
• New Album: Their latest album, Magnolia Medicine, was released this spring.
• Collaborations: The album features contributions from notable artists like Johnny Van Zant.

The New Brother Cane Album

In one sense, we can thank John Waite for the fact that there’s a fresh Brother Cane record on the shelves here in 2026, nearly 30 years after the rockers, known for songs like “Got No Shame,” released their last album, 1998’s Wishpool.

After the band dissolved at the end of the ’90s, frontman and songwriter Damon Johnson found himself playing guitar in the early 2000s for the Babys and Bad English singer, who had also scored his own solo hits, including the ’80s classic, “Missing You.”

Waite had some pointed advice for his new collaborator. “John was the first person that said to me, ‘Damon, don’t ever give up the name Brother Cane,'” Johnson remembers. “He goes, ‘You’ve invested real time in that. You were the songwriter, you were the singer. You never know what the future holds.’

We can see the future now and it’s one that includes a new Brother Cane album, against many odds. Magnolia Medicine, the Alabama-bred group’s fourth album arrived this spring. It follows a series of strong solo releases from Johnson in recent years. By the time he released 2021’s Battle Lessons, produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters), it was clear he’d come full circle.

Listen to Brother Cane’s ‘This Means War’

The Road Back to Brother Cane

“Wishpool was so great. It was an amazing record and we all believed that that was going to be a game-changer for us,” he says, reflecting on the start of the long journey that would eventually wind back around to Brother Cane and Magnolia Medicine.

“Instead, it went the total opposite direction. People were apathetic. Radio had changed. The record company had changed,” he explains. “We were just beaten up, physically, spiritually, mentally.” A wilderness period of sorts followed, but he got some good gigs out there in the woods. In addition to playing guitar with Waite, he’d written with Sammy Hagar leading up to the Brother Cane hiatus. Additional writing gigs followed with Skid Row, a song for Carlos Santana and Steven Tyler, Queensryche, Stevie Nicks and even a short-term stint with a reunited Damn Yankees.

He’d spend longer stretches of time with Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy (and the related Black Star Riders) and since 2021, he’s been playing guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd, a role which became sadly permanent after founding member Gary Rossington passed away.

READ MORE: Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Gary Rossington Dead at 71

Brother Cane in Concert

How He Honors Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington on the New Album

Johnson pays a worthy tribute to his guitar mentor with “Prince Charming,” one of many standouts on the new album. He wrote it as an homage to Rossington and the emotional track features Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant and Rickey Medlocke, plus two of the band’s “Honkettes,” Carol Chase and Stacey Michelle, on backing vocals.

“I just played the song randomly for Johnny one day when we were on the road with Skynyrd because I was working on finishing some Brother Cane lyrics while I was traveling,” he recalls. “I don’t know what possessed me to play it for him. I did feel like ‘Prince Charming’ was a great song, but I just thought, ‘Well, it’s about Gary Rossington; of course it’s a good song. I’d love for Johnny to hear it.’

He played “Prince Charming” for Van Zant on acoustic and the singer started to join in as Johnson hit the second chorus. He knew. “It was definitely the universe saying, ‘Oh man, you need to get your new boy Van Zant to sing on this,'” he says. “Because it just lifted it and took it into like ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ territory.”

“He started playing the song and by the end of it I was like, ‘Hey, I want to be a part of this if it’s going to be on your record,” Van Zant details in a separate conversation. “Honestly, all of my parts probably took me 20 minutes. I was on my way to the airport to go do something else. But I was like I’ll give it a shot. We came in and it just came naturally. It’s such a great tribute to Gary. Damon’s just a fantastic guy and the album’s great.”

READ MORE: Top 10 Gary Rossington Songs

“You know having him on it gave me more chutzpah to deliver the lyrics with a different kind of focus,” Johnson shares remembering the goosebumps he’d felt in that moment. “It’s such a blessing man to have him on it; he just killed it.”

Watch Brother Cane’s ‘Prince Charming Video Featuring Johnny Van Zant’

How Van Halen Made an Important Connection

Skid Row bassist Rachel Bolan is among Johnson’s peers who are singing praises of what he and Brother Cane have accomplished with Magnolia Medicine. Bolan and Johnson first met when Skid Row and Brother Cane were out opening for Van Halen in the ’90s on the latter’s Balance tour. They struck an instant bond with each other.

“I tell Damon all of the time ‘Got No Shame’ [a hit at rock radio for Brother Cane in the ’90s] is in my Top 10 of favorite songs in my life,” Bolan says via Zoom. Johnson ended up playing a substantial number of solos on Bolan’s new solo album Gargoyle of the Garden State, which came out in early June. “He just sits there looking at you playing guitar; he doesn’t even look at the neck,” he laughs. “It just blows my mind.”

But he points out that Johnson has many other things that he brings to the table as well. “The stuff that we wrote for Skid Row [for their 1996 album, Thickskin], he was a good organizer,” Bolan shares. “We’d have so many ideas; he organized thoughts and he’s like ‘Man maybe you’re working that riff a little too much.’ Being a vocalist with some lyrics I’d write he’s like ‘That’s a really hard sing; can we say it in a different way?’

“I learned a lot working with Damon; he’s a natural man,” Bolan concludes. “Brother Cane their new record it’s so good; it’s the real deal. I called him and I’m like ‘Dude this is crazy crazy crazy good.’

Listen to Brother Cane’s ‘Nothing to Lose’

The Other Missing Link

Marti Frederiksen is another part of the Brother Cane equation—a piece of puzzle that goes all of way back to band’s first album in 1993. The pair wrote “Got No Shame” together (among many they penned for album) and Johnson says producer and songwriter has always been an essential piece of Brother Cane story.

“There would have never been a Brother Cane in first place had it not been for songs Marti and I wrote together,” Johnson confirms. “Yes band did amazing job recording playing them studio; of course we all worked our tails off touring relentlessly record company did good job; none machinery happens without those songs; so yeah Marti I have chemistry is rare.”

He’s got special blend too being reunited original Brother Cane bassist Glenn Maxey plus longtime collaborators guitarist Tony Higbee drummer Jared Pope keyboardist Buck Johnson—a trio has deep bond with “As you know I’ve been making music [them] really for twice as long original Brother Cane ever together; so just being my friends having their trust [means so much].”

Gratitude is something keeps coming back throughout conversation UCR; “I was so grateful man get play guitar after [Brother Cane parted ways at the end of the ’90s] John Waite get Alice Cooper call on and on,” he says; “This is all wild stuff; it’s just wild here I am early 60s bumping against getting Social Security check one day soon made favorite record whole career Magnolia Medicine; it’s my favorite record entire career no contest.”

Brother Cane in Concert

What Else Has Brother Cane Been Doing This Year?

The band spent part of first half 2026 touring Kansas 38 Special playing packed houses; “Both those bands were big my turntable as kid so we’re excited play their audience turn them on Brother Cane,” he told UCR prior run dates.

The summer found Johnson back Lynyrd Skynyrd mode Southern Rock legends hit road Foreigner July August; he also shares that addition further activity Brother Cane he’d love chance make another solo acoustic album; for now he’s just thankful where things are at him his career; “I’ve got full support [my wife] Linda kids everything I’m doing,” he says.

“I’m not having get plane gone [many] weeks like I was Alice like I was Black Star Riders,” he explains; “I don’t want ever do again man so think there’s path me reach all musical goals still home be my family; feels like it’s my best life.”

Listen to Brother Cane’s ‘The Wolf on the Mountain’

Brother Cane, Winter 2026 Tour Dates

Dec. 02 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Midtown
Dec. 03 – San Marcos, TX @ Ragnar’s
Dec. 04 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater
Dec. 05 – McKinney, TX @ The Sanctuary Music & Events