Jamey Johnson & Blackberry Smoke Announce Summer Tour
Jamey Johnson. Photo: Charles Reagan Hackleman
Jamey Johnson is launching a tour later this year with Blackberry Smoke. Ella Langley and Megan Maroney will support on the 19-date run, which kicks off Aug. 12 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The hitmaker will visit Wichita, Little Rock, Charlotte, Charleston, Pittsburgh and more with a Franklin, Tennessee show at FirstBank Amphitheater on August 25. Tickets for the dates go on sale to the public on April 22.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do until I am standing there doing it,” Johnson says. “That is a freedom I have enjoyed ever since I began doing this, the ability to try something new. You’ll see me do a lot of my songs, including my old stuff. If I have a new song that I want to share, you will hear that. When I’m not doing my songs, I’ll be doing everybody else’s that I like, from every format.”
Johnson continues, “If I find a jazz song that I like, we’ll drop it in there. If I find a rock song that I like, we’ll do that. My taste is vintage, traditional, and that is not to say that everything I do is old. There are a lot of new writers these days that are putting out great music that I find in the same vein as the old stuff I like and we may try some of that out.”
Johnson’s 2008 album, That Lonesome Song, was certified Platinum for 1 million in sales, and his 2010 double album, The Guitar Song, received a Gold certification. He has won two Song of the Year awards for “Give It Away” and “In Color,” both from the ACM and the CMA. In 2012, the Alabama native released the Grammy-nominated Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, which paired him with Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Ray Price, Elvis Costello, George Strait, Vince Gill and Merle Haggard.
Jamey Johnson & Blackberry Smoke Confirmed Tour Dates:
12-Aug – Lincoln, NE – Lincoln On The Streets – Downtown Lincoln
13-Aug – Mankato, MN – Vetter Stone Amphitheater
16-Aug – Maryland Heights, MO – Saint Louis Music Park
18-Aug – Wichita, KS – WAVE
19-Aug – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater
20-Aug – Little Rock, AR – First Security Amphitheater
21-Aug – Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater
23-Aug – Southaven, MS – Landers Center
25-Aug – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater
26-Aug- Raleigh, NC- Red Hat Amphitheater
27-Aug- Charlotte, NC- Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
28-Aug- Greensboro, NC – White Oak Amphitheater
1-Sep- Anderson, SC- Anderson Sports & Entertainment Center
2-Sep- Doswell, VA- The Meadow Event Park – SERVPRO Pavilion – After Hours
3-Sep- North Charleston, SC- Firefly Distillery
4-Sep- Portsmouth, VA – Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion
8-Sep- Pittsburgh, PA- Stage AE Outdoors
9-Sep- Sterling Heights, MI- Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
11-Sep- Columbus, OH- KEMBA Live!
