Josh Abbott of the Josh Abbott Band returned to Lubbock Friday for a meet-and-greet event with Dairy Queen.<\/p>\n
Fans attended for a chance to meet Abbott, receive free merchandise and Dairy Queen\u2019s Dilly Bar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy to come back to Lubbock anytime,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cWith it being such a huge weekend, this is just awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abbott is visiting Lubbock during the same week ESPN\u2019s College GameDay is stopping in Lubbock for Texas Tech football\u2019s game against Brigham Young University at 11 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact Texas Tech and my time here specifically made upon my music is monumental because when our band first started, we were just a bunch of fraternity guys playing some originals and some covers,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n
Abbott graduated from Tech in 2005, the Josh Abbott Band was founded in 2006. The band released its first song, \u201cTaste,\u201d in 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d go to the Blue Light, and we\u2019d sell it out every Tuesday night. \u2026 We had packed houses,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThat energy from that (fans), it starts to get people talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Success at Tech and Blue Light led to the Josh Abbott Band selling out larger venues and gaining recognition in other college towns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat buzz grows, and you start selling out bigger venues, and then all of a sudden you start going to other college towns and people are like, \u2018Yeah, my friends at Tech said you got to go watch this guy, he sells out the bars there,\u2019 and that spreads,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abbott mentioned how many of his earlier songs were solely inspired by his time as a Red Raider.<\/p>\n
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Josh Abbott, Texas Tech alumnus and country musician, interacts with fans at a meet-and-greet with the star at Dairy Queen on University Ave., Nov. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s so many songs that I have from early in our career that were about my time at Texas Tech, like \u2018Road Trip.\u2019 It\u2019s (\u2018Road Trip\u2019) is a song about me and my friends taking road trips in college, whether it was to football games or whether it was to New Mexico to go on ski trips,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n
Abbott also mentioned his songs \u2018Victory Bells\u2019 and \u2018Live While You Got It\u2019 and how it is a tribute to the university and what it means to him.<\/p>\n
Santiago Terrazas, a Tech senior, business management major from Spearman, said his sister would show him songs from the Josh Abbott Band.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to come and see him, and it was a good opportunity,\u201d Terrazas said, after joking that the event was an opportunity for a free Dilly Bar.<\/p>\n
Ken Geihsler, owner and president at Brady\u2019s Dairy Queen Inc., highlighted Abbott\u2019s connection to West Texas and his affiliation with Tech and Dairy Queen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s (Abbott) just so important to the Texas Dairy Queen brand, and we appreciate everything he\u2019s done for us,\u201d Geihsler said.<\/p>\n
Abbott now sings the iconic Dairy Queen jingle, \u201cThat\u2019s what I like about Texas.\u201d Geihsler said he loves having Abbott sing the jingle, as Abbott has loved Dairy Queen since his childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just loved the connection we have. He loves the brand, we love him, and you couldn\u2019t ask for a better weekend to have him,\u201d Geihsler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Abbott of the Josh Abbott Band returned to Lubbock Friday for a meet-and-greet event with Dairy Queen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-40039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}