Styx will return to Alabama — the home state of singer-guitarist Tommy Shaw — on a 2025 “Brotherhood of Rock” tour. The classic rock band is set to perform on July 5 at the new Coca-Cola Amphitheater in Birmingham, with Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon and Don Felder of the Eagles on the lineup.

Tickets for the 6:45 p.m. show go on sale Friday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. CT via Ticketmaster/Live Nation, after a round of pre-sales. Prices are $39.50, $59.50, $69.50, $99.50 and $149.50, plus service charges, according to promoter Live Nation.

Pre-sales start on Monday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. CT and end on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 10 p.m. CT, the ticket listing says.

The Coca-Cola Amphitheater, a $46 million concert venue, is under construction and set to be completed in June 2025, according to organizers. The 9,380-seat amphitheater already has announced several concert dates for its debut season, with shows by Rod Stewart, Matt Rife, Riley Green, Thomas Rhett and Teddy Swims.

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Styx has announced about 40 dates for its tour next year, starting on May 31 in Tampa, Florida, and ending Aug. 24 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (See all the tour dates here.) The band, formed in 1972 in Chicago, is famed for ‘70s and ‘80s hits such as “Come Sail Away,” “Renegade,” “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights),” “Lady,” “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man),” “The Grand Illusion” and many more.

Shaw, 71, a Montgomery native, joined Styx in 1975 and soon became a strong force in the band, giving Styx a rowdier stance and tougher edge than it had initially. Along with Shaw, the current lineup features guitarist James “J.Y.” Young, singer Lawrence Gowan, bassists Terry Gowan and Chuck Panozzo, drummer Todd Sucherman and guitarist Will Evankovich, according to the Styx website.

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In a press release for the “Brotherhood of Rock” tour, Shaw name-checked his hometown as he described his early years as a musician and his first encounter with Cronin, lead singer for REO during its ‘70s-’80s heyday and beyond.

“The winter of 1975 I had returned home to Montgomery, Alabama, after accepting the fact that there was very little, if any interest from club owners for seven-piece rock bands who played their original songs, (some of which were 10 minutes long) and we’d finally accepted the reality that people wanted disco music hits to dance to,” Shaw said in the release.

“A musician friend from home called me about a steady gig he and two other local musician friends had in the lounge of the local bowling alley. There was no dance floor, only tables and chairs, and they were playing music from bands like the Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, etc. and singing three-part harmony to locals who were loving it and not wanting to dance. And a steady weekly paycheck! I joined them and spent the rest of that year playing whatever we liked, bought a modest house, bought a used car, and was relieved to be off the road after two years of night club managers who wanted us to play disco.

“Thinking I’d found a secure life in my hometown, I got a call from a guy named Jim Vosecek, who’d introduced himself to me and the band at a club in Chicago,” Shaw said. “He explained that he was tour manager of the rock band Styx, that they had just released a new album called ‘Equinox,’ and they were scheduled to embark on their first national tour when a member suddenly quit and left the band. He said to get on the plane they’d booked and come audition. Arriving at O’Hare airport, I met Kevin Cronin who was returning to rejoin his band, REO Speedwagon. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship that finds us back on the road together, this time under much different circumstances! The Brotherhood of Rock is stronger than ever!”

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REO frontman Cronin, 73, who wrote hits such as “Keep On Loving You” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” is set to tour with Styx after his band retires from the road at the end of 2024. REO announced in September that it would stop touring, and pointed to “irreconcilable differences” between Cronin and bassist Bruce Hall in social media posts.

Styx and REO have toured together in the past, including an “Arch Allies” tour that stopped in Birmingham in 2009 at the former City Stages festival. The bands also played that year at The Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach. More recently, Styx and REO played in 2022 at the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville.

On the “Brotherhood of Rock” tour, Styx and Cronin will be joined by Felder, best known as the dynamic lead guitarist for the Eagles, 1974-2001. He’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles, and was the co-writer of signature songs “Victim of Love” and “Hotel California.” Felder, 77, also toured with Styx in 2014 and played at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater (now Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater).

The veteran rockers are expected to focus on greatest hits during the tour next year. A publicist promises fans “a live celebration of some of the greatest rock anthems of all time,” including “Renegade,” “Keep On Loving You,” “Come Sail Away,” “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and “Hotel California.”

Shaw, Cronin and Felder star in a promo video released on Friday for the “Brotherhood of Rock” tour; watch it below.