As has now been formally revealed through a rip-roaring announcement video, Riley Green is ready to embark on the Damn Country Music tour alongside Ella Langley, Vincent Mason and extra.
The ‘Jesus Saves’ singer-songwriter already has a spread of dates lined up for the rest of the yr, however his new run of reveals will kick off on New Years Eve with a particular present in Durant, Oklahoma alongside his tour-partner-in-crime, Ella Langley.
The script for at the moment's tour video was initially leaked through Instagram by a Riley Green fan-page, ‘Splash of Riley’. It options an thrilling solid of artists with a wide range of ingenious stage-names.
In addition to Ella Langley and Vincent Mason, Riley Green's Damn Country Music tour will function Wyatt McCubbin, Erik Dylan, Mike Ryan, Jake Worthington, Preston Cooper, Lauren Watkins and Drake White as a part of his spectacular roster of openers.
The video pivots round Riley Green – or slightly, ‘Duckman’ – calling up his buddies and ensuring they're all pleased to hitch him out on the highway. The tour will take him throughout Canada in March and April, earlier than he brings his arsenal of down-home anthems to Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Montana and Idaho. Riley additionally has a slew of pageant dates lined up for 2025.
Charmingly, the clip concludes with a trucker asking Duckman, “Is that Smoke Show gonna make it? Over”, with Ella Langley chiming in, “You bet your ass I am. Y'all better keep up!“ Riley then delivers the final lines, “Let's go play some damn country music, y'all!”, referencing the opening monitor from his broadly acclaimed 2023 album, Ain't My Last Rodeo, a canopy of Tim McGraw's ‘Damn Country Music’.
The revelation arrives after Riley Green and Ella Langley shared a sequence of pictures of the ‘you look like you love me’ collaborators in a automotive, whereas capturing the video, which is impressed by the enduring 1977 movie, Smokey and the Bandit. Riley steps into the footwear of Burt Reynolds, whereas Ella assumes the function performed by Sandy Field. Aptly, Jerry Reed's iconic hit, ‘Eastbound and Down’ performs all through, with the playful, much-loved monitor showing on the Smokey and the Bandit soundtrack.
Hilariously, Ella Langley took to the feedback to ask Riley Green, “Wait I thought I was gonna get to be Burt Reynolds”, once more highlighting the endearing chemistry between the artists.
Following the viral success of ‘you look like you love me’, which was lately given a Wild West-themed set of visuals, the 2 Alabama natives teamed up on the title-track from Riley Green's new studio album, Don't Mind If I Do, which drops on October 18th.
Although Riley Green is at present solely confirmed as performing in Canada, the US and Australia, he confirmed earlier within the yr that he'll fortunately be returning to the UK quickly, after an electrical dwell debut at BST Hyde Park in July. Those who pre-order Riley's new album through his webstore will acquire pre-sale entry to those UK dates.
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