Midland – Shooting Memories With Tequila (Live At Spotify House)

A country trio that owns its own tequila brand just dropped a heartbreak song about drinking tequila to forget — and now there’s a brand-new live video to go with it.

When Midland sing about lining up shots to blot out an ex, they are not reaching for a metaphor they don’t understand. The Dripping Springs, Texas trio literally owns a tequila brand — Insólito — which makes Shooting Memories With Tequila the rare heartbreak song where the prop in the title sits on the band’s own shelf. As of June 29, 2026, there’s a brand-new way to watch them deliver it: an official live performance video, filmed at Spotify House and posted to the band’s own channel.

Keep watching: more Country music videos · explore the 2020s →

The song itself arrived a little earlier in the year. Midland released Shooting Memories With Tequila as a single on May 8, 2026, the second single from their fifth studio album, Stages, which followed on June 12, 2026, through Blue Highway Records. Produced by Trent Willmon, Stages leans into the band’s well-established neotraditional lane — thick three-part harmonies, steel guitar, and the worn-in country-rock cool that has been their signature since the platinum-selling Drinkin’ Problem first put them on the map.

A desperado down to his last shot

The lyric is a small, vivid scene of self-medication. The narrator has been left behind — “she said I’ll see you down the road” — and has fled to Mexico, where he sits with a bottle and the movies in his mind that keep playing. The central image is sharp and a little funny in its desperation: he’s “shooting memories with tequila,” lining them up and firing away, except every shot misses and “the bottle’s all I kill.” It is classic Midland territory, the same lineage as Drinkin’ Problem and Cheatin’ Songs — a sad story told with enough wit and swing that you can two-step to your own heartbreak. Lead singer Mark Wystrach delivers it with the kind of cowboy melancholy the band has spent a decade perfecting.

For a group whose entire aesthetic runs on Nudie-suit glamour and barroom authenticity, the tequila at the center of the song is more than a lyric. Midland have built an identity that extends from their rhinestone suits to their own spirits and cigar lines, and Shooting Memories With Tequila folds that world neatly into three and a half minutes. The heartbreak is real, the swing is irresistible, and the bottle on the table might just be one of their own.

Live at Spotify House — the new video

The performance that anchors this page is the freshest piece of the story. Posted June 29, 2026, the official Shooting Memories With Tequila live video captures Midland running the song at Spotify House — a stripped, in-the-room reading that trades studio polish for the easy chemistry the three have had since they first sang together at a friend’s wedding in 2013. It’s the latest chapter in a busy 2026 for the band, who spent the spring on television, on the road in support of Stages, and out front of one of the most reliably entertaining catalogs in mainstream country. Watch the video and you get both the song and the proof of why this trio has stayed the course while flashier acts came and went.