Jamey Johnson has simply introduced the dates for “The Final Honky Tonk Tour” kicking off on June 4th. The 36-date headlining tour will go all throughout america, with extra dates to be added sooner or later. It comes on the again of Johnson releasing his long-anticipated new file Midnight Gasoline in 2024.
However this isn’t just a few common Jamey Johnson tour. The identify carries a whole lot of significance, and for a number of causes.
The tour identify was coined in tribute to Wayne Mills, the nation artist who was murdered on November twenty third, 2013, and who was shut associates with Johnson. The title monitor from the final album Wayne Mills launched was referred to as “The Final Honky Tonk.” The track additionally occurred to function guitar participant Jason “Rowdy” Cope on it, also called one of many founders of the Southern rock group The Metal Woods. Cope handed away tragically himself in January of 2021 on account of issues from diabetes.
Now in a full circle second, Wayne Mills’ son Jack has grow to be a guitar participant after being mentored for a few years by Jason “Rowdy” Cope. In lots of respects, Jack misplaced two fathers in a tragic vogue, however Jamey Johnson and different members of the nation group have continued to step up and help Jack. Saving Nation Music profiled Jack Mills late final 12 months.
Together with the upcoming tour, Jamey Johnson can be readying the discharge of his personal model of the Wayne Mills track “The Final Honky Tonk” produced by Buddy Cannon. And in yet one more full circle second, Jack Mills performs on the monitor.
“When Wayne and Rowdy acquired collectively and did that file, that track made it on my radar,” Johnson says. “Again then, I performed that track a number of occasions with Wayne. We might do it at reveals. So, it’s one I haven’t completed shortly. And now Wayne’s son, Jack, is a badass guitar participant. He says he discovered all of it from Rowdy. I don’t doubt that in any respect. Jack actually is one thing else! I believed, ‘Man, his dad could be proud. Let’s break that track out and get Jack to play guitar on it.’ I’m proud to have him enjoying on it.”
“The tour will probably be a whole lot of enjoyable,” Johnson continues. “It’s an opportunity for us to hang around each evening, the place we get to stroll onstage and exhibit what we’ve discovered over the previous 20 years. That is my twentieth 12 months on the street, not counting the street gigs I did within the 10 years earlier than that. I believed that the identify sounded fairly good as a tour identify – ‘The Final Honky Tonk Tour.’”
Present dates are on sale now with extra bulletins coming. For tickets, go to jameyjohnson.com/tour
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THE LAST HONKY TONK TOUR DATES:
June 4- Wichita, KS- Wichita Riverfest
June 5- Spherical Rock, TX- Spherical Rock Amp
June 6- Bossier Metropolis, LA- Paradise Theater at Margaritaville Resort and On line casino
June 7- Lake Charles, LA- Golden Nugget Lake Charles
June 12- Warren, OH- Packard Music Corridor
June 13- Detroit, MI- Aertha Franklin Amphitheater
June 14- Creighton, PA- Pittsburgh Brewing Firm
June 20- Albuquerque, NM- Isleta Resort & On line casino Showroom
June 21- Chandler, AZ- Wild Horse Go Resort & On line casino
June 22- Winchester, CA- Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Competition
June 26- Emigrant, MT- The Outdated Saloon
June 27- Emigrant, MT- The Outdated Saloon
June 28- Whitefish, MT- Massive Mountain Ranch Indian Relay Races
July 11- Danville, VA- The Pantheon at Caesars Virginia
July 12- Somerset, KY- Grasp Musicians Competition
July 25- Franklin, OH- JD Legends
July 26- Franklin, OH- JD Legends
August 7- Webster MA- Indian Ranch Amphitheatre
August 8- Quakertown, PA- Univest Efficiency Middle
August 9- Charles City, WV- Hollywood On line casino- The Occasion Middle
August 16- Petros, TN- Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Distillery
August 23 & 24- N. Charleston, SC- Marcus King Household Reunion
September 5- Cherokee, NC- Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Occasion Middle
September 6- Cherokee, NC- Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Occasion Middle
September 11- Sizzling Springs, AR- Oaklawn Racing On line casino Resort
September 12- Pryor, OK- Born & Raised Competition
September 13- Helotes, TX- Floores Nation Retailer
September 20- New Madrid, MO- New Madrid Riverfront Park
September 21- Council Bluffs, IA- Harrah’s Stir Cove
September 26- Durant, OK- Choctaw On line casino
September 27- Fort Value, TX- Billy Bob’s Texas
October 4- Atlantic Metropolis, NJ- Tropicana Atlantic Metropolis
October 5- Verona, NY- Turning Stone Resort On line casino
October 10- Biloxi, MS- Beau Rivage Resort & On line casino
October 17- Nashville, TN- Schermerhorn Symphony Middle
October 18- Nashville, TN- Schermerhorn Symphony Middle
