Hitting the road.
This morning, Jamey Johnson announced a 36-city headlining tour, The Last Honky Tonk Tour, which will kick off soon on June 4th at Wichita Riverfest in Wichita, Kansas, and run through October ending in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jamey just got married, but he’s clearly jumping right into the next thing and he says all 20 years of his time on the road will play a part in the experience of these 2025 shows:
“The tour will be a lot of fun. It’s a chance for us to hang out every night, where we get to walk onstage and show off what we’ve learned over the past 20 years. This is my 20th year on the road, not counting the road gigs I did in the 10 years before that.”
He says the tour name was inspired by a recently-recorded track, the title track of the 2010 album by The Wayne Mills Band, featuring the late Jason “Rowdy” Cope on guitar, which he recorded just a few weeks ago with producer Buddy Cannon. The tour name are in tribute to Mills and Cope, both of whom were his dear friends:
“When Wayne and Rowdy got together and did that record, that song made it on my radar. Back then, I played that song several times with Wayne. We would do it at shows. So, it is one I haven’t done in a while.
And now Wayne’s son, Jack, is a bad*** guitar player. He says he learned it all from Rowdy. I don’t doubt that at all. Jack really is something else! I thought, ‘Man, his dad would be proud. Let’s break that song out and get Jack to play guitar on it.’ I am proud to have him playing on it.”
And it sounds like there’s a lot more music on the way, as Jamey has recorded over 50 new songs since he put out his 2024 Midnight Gasoline record, which was his first new solo album in 14 years. Some of the new tunes will be part of his tour set list, and of course, he’ll play all the fan-favorites too:
“We are going to do some of the new stuff. We will do some of the songs from ‘Midnight Gasoline’ from last year and all the years before. Whatever album you like, we will do some of those songs. It’s exciting to play the new songs. I like it when people tell me they have heard the new stuff and they like it. I like it when people have something else to listen to. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.”
I love that Jamey is fully getting back into the swing of being a solo artist and putting out new music, and it sounds like he has a ton of new music coming this year that we can look forward too, which is always a win in my book.
Jamey has an incredible voice and puts on a great live show, so if he’ll be anywhere near you on this stop, be sure and catch him in concert. You can view the full tour schedule below.
The Last Honky Tonk tour schedule:
June 4, 2025 || Wichita, KS || Wichita Riverfest
June 5, 2025 || Round Rock, TX || Round Rock Amp
June 6, 2025 || Bossier City, LA || Paradise Theater at Margaritaville Resort and Casino
June 7, 2025 || Lake Charles, LA || Golden Nugget Lake Charles
June 12, 2025 || Warren, OH || Packard Music Hall
June 13, 2025 || Detroit, MI || Aertha Franklin Amphitheater
June 14, 2025 || Creighton, PA || Pittsburgh Brewing Company
June 20, 2025 || Albuquerque, NM || Isleta Resort & Casino Showroom
June 21, 2025 || Chandler, AZ || Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino
June 22, 2025 || Winchester, CA || Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival
June 26, 2025 || Emigrant, MT || The Old Saloon
June 27, 2025 || Emigrant, MT || The Old Saloon
June 28, 2025 || Whitefish, MT || Big Mountain Ranch Indian Relay Races
July 11, 2025 || Danville, VA || The Pantheon at Caesars Virginia
July 12, 2025 || Somerset, KY || Master Musicians Festival
July 25, 2025 || Franklin, OH || JD Legends
July 26, 2025 || Franklin, OH || JD Legends
August 7, 2025 || Webster MA || Indian Ranch Amphitheatre
August 8, 2025 || Quakertown, PA || Univest Performance Center
August 9, 2025 || Charles Town, WV || Hollywood Casino- The Event Center
August 16, 2025 || Petros, TN || Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Distillery
August 23 & 24, 2025 || N. Charleston, SC || Marcus King Family Reunion
September 5, 2025 || Cherokee, NC || Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Event Center
September 6, 2025 || Cherokee, NC || Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Event Center
September 11, 2025 || Hot Springs, AR || Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort
September 12, 2025 || Pryor, OK || Born & Raised Festival
September 13, 2025 || Helotes, TX || Floores Country Store
September 20, 2025 || New Madrid, MO || New Madrid Riverfront Park
September 21, 2025 || Council Bluffs, IA || Harrah’s Stir Cove
September 26, 2025 || Durant, OK || Choctaw Casino
September 27, 2025 || Fort Worth, TX || Billy Bob’s Texas
October 4, 2025 || Atlantic City, NJ || Tropicana Atlantic City
October 5, 2025 || Verona, NY || Turning Stone Resort Casino
October 10, 2025 || Biloxi, MS || Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
October 17, 2025 || Nashville, TN || Schermerhorn Symphony Center
October 18, 2025 || Nashville, TN || Schermerhorn Symphony Center
“Midnight Gasoline”
