This summer's best tours show off the veritable cream of the crop in country solo acts -- veterans of the stage who know how to consistently and unflinchingly put on an absolutely killer concert. Even better, these masters of the sizzling summer show are sharing the stage with a mix of opening acts who are well on their way to headlining a tour of their own.
Having just wrapped their Changed Tour earlier this month, country trio Rascal Flatts are wasting no time and letting no grass grow under their cowboy boots. The threesome is itching to get back out there on that wide open road and do what they do best and that's continue to perform for their fans. The band just announced their summer tour -- the Live & Loud Tour.
It's that time of year again! With spring so close that you can almost feel the warm air blowing, country stars are preparing to head out on the road -- and Darius Rucker is joining in on the fun. This week, Rucker announced the dates for his 2013 True Believers Tour.
The members of the country supergroup Alabama have announced a tour to celebrate their 40 years in the country music business. The Back to the Bowery Tour will kick off on April 5 in South Carolina and run through Oct. 12 before wrapping up in Oklahoma.
Carrie Underwood's hugely-successful Blown Away Tour will be memorialized with a Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit entitled Carrie Underwood: The Blown Away Tour, which will launch on June 5 and run live through Nov. 10, 2013.
Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert are kinda like the male and female versions of each other -- they both make country records that cut against the modern commercial grain, they both wear their musical hearts on their sleeves, and they both put on high-energy, good-time concerts. They've toured together in the past, and now they've re-teamed for a new tour appropriately titled Locked and Reloaded,
Justin Moore is taking his outlaw show on the road. The singer will embark on his first-ever headline tour on March 14. The tour, dubbed Outlaws Like Me, will feature support from Dustin Lynch and John Pardi. The first show takes place in Pikeville, Ky. and runs through April 20, wrapping in Corbin, Ky. Full circle!