Riley Green Channels ‘Smokey & The Bandit’ Vibes For New Tour Announcement
Riley Green. Photo: Harper Smith
Riley Green announced his new headlining “Damn Country Music Tour” in a throwback video featuring a bunch of his buddies.
The video is a nod to the classic Smokey and the Bandit movie featuring all of Green’s opening acts on the new tour. Released today, Green revs up his engine in the fun-filled parody of the iconic 1977 film, and in a playful reenactment, he channels the Bandit with Ella Langley as runaway bride Carrie as they evade the cops in a sleek Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Green grabs the CB radio to call out to his opening acts and invite them to join him on the road, set to the Jerry Reed tune “East Bound and Down.”
“I learned to play guitar to my granddaddy’s favorite country songs from back in the day and the new album is a throwback to the era when I first became a fan,” shares Green. “For this tour I was able to find some of my favorite artists and songwriters to join us, and singing with Ella every night will be a lot of fun.”
General tickets sales for the trek begins this Friday (Sept. 27). Additional dates will be announced in the coming months. For more information, click here.
