Luke Combs will kick off his “ Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour ” in 2019—his first ever headline arena tour, marking another major career milestone for the breakthrough musician. The extensive tour—which will feature special guests LANCO and Jameson Rodgers—will commence January 31 at Birmingham’s Legacy Arena at the BJCC and will span through the spring featuring stops at legendary venues across the country including New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom and Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, among many others.

The tour—which was originally announced by Combs earlier this morning on SiriusXM’s The Highway channel—will go on-sale next Friday, September 14 at 10:00 am local time. In an effort to combat scalping, fan club tickets will be sold through the Ticketmaster Verified Fan™ program and all tickets will have fan-focused pricing offered between $25-$50.

His second headline tour, the “Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour” follows Combs’ record-breaking, 55-city sold-out “Don’t Tempt Me With A Good Time Tour”—completed earlier this year—and will be preceded by a series of fall U.K./European headline shows—which sold out months in advance. See below for details.

The tour culminates a massive breakthrough year for Combs, which saw the release of his Platinum-certified debut album, This One’s For You, released on River House Artists/Columbia Nashville and two recent nominations at the 2018 CMA Awards for Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year .

This One’s For You is currently the most-streamed country album of 2018, achieving over 1 billion streams and was also the largest album debut from a new country artist in 2017. The album debuted at #1, on the Billboard Country Albums Chart, where it has spent a total of 12 weeks at #1 and at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Additionally, Combs has had three consecutive #1 radio singles—3x Platinum “Hurricane,” 2x Platinum “When It Rains It Pours” and Platinum “One Number Away.”

In addition to his breakout debut album, Combs released the deluxe edition, This One’s For You Too, earlier this summer, which landed at #1 on Billboard Country Albums Chart and #4 on Billboard 200 Chart.

Since the release of This One’s For You, Combs has been named Billboard’s Top 100 Artist and Top New Country Artist of 2017, “Best New Country Artist” at the iHeart Radio Awards, Music Row’s “Breakthrough Artist Of The Year” and 2017 Artist To Watch by Amazon Music, Billboard, Bobby Bones, CMT,  HuffPost, Nashville Lifestyles, Pandora and Rolling Stone.

LUKE COMBS’ “BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART TOUR”
January 31—Birmingham, AL—Legacy Arena at the BJCC*
February 1—Huntington, WV—Big Sandy Superstore Arena*
February 2—Greensboro, NC—Greensboro Coliseum Complex*
February 7—Wichita, KS—INTRUST Bank Arena*
February 8—North Little Rock, AR—Verizon Arena*
February 9—Baton Rouge, LA—Raising Cane’s River Center*
February 14—Greenville, SC—Bon Secours Wellness Arena*
February 15—Knoxville, TN—Thompson-Boling Arena*
February 16—Evansville, IN—Ford Center*
February 21—Hershey, PA—Giant Center*
February 22—Columbus, OH—Schottenstein Center*
February 23—Charlottesville, VA—John Paul Jones Arena*
February 28—New York, NY—Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom†
March 1—Bangor, ME—Cross Insurance Center*
March 2—Worcester, MA—DCU Center*
March 8—Tupelo, MS—BancorpSouth Arena*
March 9—Orange Beach, AL—Amphitheatre at The Wharf*
March 28—London, ON—Budweiser Garden*
March 29—Oshawa, ON—Tribute Communities Centre*
March 30—Kingston, Ontario—Leon’s Centre*
April 11—Duluth, MN—AMSOIL Arena*
April 12—Moline, IL—TaxSlayer Center*
April 13—Saginaw, MI—Dow Event Center*
April 25—Green Bay, WI—Resch Center*
April 26—La Crosse, WI—La Crosse Center*
May 10—Tulsa, OK—BOK Center*
May 11—Omaha, NE—CHI Health Center Omaha*
May 12—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheater*
*with LANCO and Jameson Rodgers
†with Jameson Rodgers

Riser House/Columbia Nashville’s Mitchell Tenpenny first noticed his boozy “Drunk Me” felt different than the other songs he’d released independently while on the road earlier this year with Maren Morris. However, it wasn’t until this week when the single breached Top 20 at Country radio that it really clicked for the Nashville native who grew up playing in the hallways of some of the most esteemed Music Row houses under the watchful eye of his grandmother, industry veteran and first female CEO of Sony/ATV, Donna Hilley.

“Growing up around the business of the music industry, I remember thinking some days really inspire creativity and others can just take it right out of you. I think that’s why I write the way I do as the business is like songwriting: there’s beauty and pain, it just depends on your perspective,” reflects Tenpenny. “‘Drunk Me’ is an aberration, yet we’ve all been there. We’ve had fans tell us after performing it on the road that it’s helped them – and not just kept them from drunk dialing, but it’s helped them grieve and connect in a way we never expected the song to do, so in that way, this being our first Top 20 is really special as it’s taken on different meanings with so many people.”

It’s that unique perspective that has Billboard predicting Tenpenny’s breakout success in 2018, noting, “Whether it’s the desperation in ‘Drunk Me,’ the acidic revenge in ‘Bitches’ or the lack of self-control in ‘Alcohol You Later,’ he approaches a microphone with a biting ferocity,” and has Taste of Country opining, “Tenpenny doesn’t just write — he builds songs.”

Tenpenny wrote 56 songs for his first full album expected later this year, having since narrowed it down to what will become his first major label release. He adds, “I’m so humbled to be in this position – I know the work that goes into even getting a song played on the radio, so to be Top 20 on our first single, and to have the fans requesting it like they are, is so special. I’ve waited my whole life for his moment. Thank you for giving ‘Drunk Me’ a shot!”

For more information, visit mitchelltenpenny.com.

With more than 90 million career streams worldwide, the appetite for new music from breakout artist/songwriter Ryan Hurd is ferocious. He delivers Friday, Aug. 31 with the perfect fit in “To A T.” The song captures Hurd’s trademark powerful lyrics and melodies woven around a sexy, imploring vocal.  “To A T” is available to stream and download HERE.

The song has caught the attention of men’s lifestyle playbook, Esquire Instagram Live, which will feature a live performance of the song by the RCA Nashville artist at noon/ET on Friday, Aug. 31.

Esquire isn’t the only media gatekeeper paying attention to the Kalamazoo, MI native. Hurd was named an “Artist To Watch” by VEVO, Pandora, CMT, Huffington Post and Rolling Stone Country, which lauded him for “generating major buzz” and “making waves online.”

The praise is earned. Hurd is one of Nashville’s most multi-dimensional young songwriters. He has had co-pen credits on some of the format’s biggest chart-topping hits including “Lonely Tonight” (Blake Shelton), “You Look Good” (Lady Antebellum), and “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” (Luke Bryan). Now with the release of his own music, fans are discovering the fuel that drives Hurd is often love with all its avatars.

Prolific in the writing room, studio, and via social media, Hurd released his self-titled debut EP in 2017 which featured “Love In A Bar,” “We Do Us,” “City Girl” and “Hold You Back,” each track released over a four-month period. Attracting fans eager to embrace the soulful country artist’s new sound, his EP to date has garnered over 11 million streams.

In March, Hurd released “Diamonds Or Twine” as a present for his then soon-to-be wife Maren Morris after secretly recording the track with his long-time producer Aaron Essuis.

Hurd has been on the road with Thomas Rhett, Morris, and Florida Georgia Line. For more information on Ryan Hurd, visit RyanHurd.com.

Rachel Wammack and Tyler Rich have been tapped as a special guest to Brett Young when he bring his “crowd-pleasing” set to fans across the country this fall with CMT ON TOUR: HERE TONIGHT. Tickets for CMT ON TOUR: HERE TONIGHT go on sale in select markets Friday, August 24 at 10:00AM local time via www.BrettYoungMusic.com. Additional markets will be announced in the coming weeks.

“This tour has got me pumped already,” said Young. “We teamed up with CMT to name it after a new song I’ve been working on. It’s all about losing track of time because you’re so wrapped up in the moment. That’s what I want it to be all about out with the fans each night, and Rachel and Tyler are going to be a great way to get it started.”

First Announced CMT ON TOUR: HERE TONIGHT 2018 Dates:
11.16 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Theatre
11.17 –  Northfield, OH – Hard Rock Live Northfield Park
11.18 – Saint Louis, MO – The Pageant
11.29 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
11.30 – Columbia, SC – Township Auditorium
12.1 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
12.2 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
12.6 – Albany, NY – Palace Theatre
12.9 – New York, NY – Playstation Theatre
12.14 – Atlanta, GA – Coca Cola Roxy Theatre
12.16 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland

Rachel Wammack, a 24-year old native from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, describes her sound as the trifecta of Country, Soul and Adult Pop. Being influenced heavily from the rich music history of her hometown, Rachel had no choice but to be shaped and sharpened by the artistic gusto that comes when those sounds merge. Rachel honed her craft not only as vocalist, but as a songwriter. At the age of 12, Rachel wrote her first song. Throughout the following adolescent years, Rachel expressed her art in her songwriting, storytelling, playing in the High school band, and pursuing a degree in professional writing. At the age of 17 she was discovered by a Sony Music Nashville executive while Rachel was performing at a fine cuisine, piano restaurant in Muscle Shoals. Five years and many written songs later, Rachel would receive a record deal from Sony Music Nashville. In April 2018 Rachel released her self-titled, four song EP via the RCA Records Nashville imprint, giving her ever growing fan base a taste of the music that’s still to come. Wammack’s EP, which includes her newly-released debut single “Damage,” proves that the young singer/songwriter is standing at the starting line of what promises to be an exciting, self-fulfilling and stunning career. For additional information, visit RachelWammack.com

Multi-platinum  singer/songwriter Luke Combs releases his most personal video to date today for his Top 30 and climbing single  “She Got  The Best Of Me”.   Combs  takes centerstage in the video based on the true story of the journey his  songs have  carried him on – telling the story of his career from the birthplace of his music in Boone, N.C. to  miles on miles of  touring and moving to Nashville culminating in the present day  success of his Platinum debut album  This One’s For You , three  record-setting No. 1 singles, multiple award show moments and the fan growth from  rural  field parties to sold-out arena crowds.   

WATCH “She Got The Best Of Me” HERE 

 Combs and TA Films, the team behind his first three music videos, put  intentionality  into every moment to create a scavenger  hunt for fans throughout the video of milestone moments from Combs’ story. Woven into the video narrative are nods towards Combs’ lyrics, cameos  of band members & songwriting friends,  throw backs to Boone, N.C. and  This One’s  Fori  You Too highlights.   

The concept is  particularly special for “She Got The  Best Of Me” as the track has been a bubbling viral fan favorite since Combs first co-wrote and released it in 2014 on his  Can I Get  An Outlaw?   EP prior to moving to Nashville, Tenn.   

 Among the many special elements, highlights are : 

• Combs performing with “She Got The  Best Of Me” co-writers, Channing Wilson & Rob Snyder, at the songwriter’s night Revival at Tin Roof in Nashville where he first met both songwriters.   
• Combs’ Dodge Neon – the car he owned  when  he moved to Nashville  
• The Klondike Cafe sign – the location of  Combs’  very first video for “Let The Moonshine”.  
• The stickered guitar Luke is playing is the first one he learned to play on and wrote his first EP on.   
• Snapshots  from “Hurricane”, “When It Rains It Pours” and “One
  ​Number Away” music videos are all a part of the new video.   Original vine video of Combs first singing “She Got The Best Of Me”   
• Footage of Luke performing at Coyote Joe’s in Charlotte, N.C. – the venue Combs first saw Eric Church play and that he later headlined & earned the record for the fastest sell-out   

Combs recently culminated  a week of first  where he debuted at Madison Square Garden to a sold-out crowd on the  High Noon Neon Tour  with Jason Aldean and joined Lollapalooza as the only country artist on the bill for a packed-out performance to a sea of fans. For more on Combs and to catch him on the road, visit LukeCombs.com.