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Riley Green ‘Damn Country Music Tour’ Will Be Fun

Riley Green will kick off his ‘Damn Country Music Tour’ later this month with a Canadian run of dates, before bringing the tour to the U.S. from May 1 through…

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Riley Green will kick off his 'Damn Country Music Tour' later this month with a Canadian run of dates, before bringing the tour to the U.S. from May 1 through August 23.

Riley will be rotating a bunch of different people in the two opening slots on his tour, and since he’ll be spending a lot of time around them, he made sure to invite people who will make tour life fun.

Green told us, "'The Damn Country Music Tour' we’re gonna take out Ella Langley. With two songs together, one of them being such a big hit, and then the other one, the title track of my album, it seems really fitting to have her back on the tour with me, and I was glad to get her. And Drake White, who’s a great buddy of mine from right down the road, so I love that we’re gonna have two Alabama artists on tour with me already."

He added, "I’m gonna take out a lot of guys and girls that I’m a big fan of, people that I enjoy being around, writers that I like writing with, and try to make this tour … You know, as much as 'My Last Rodeo Tour' was a huge step for me, I wanna make this one even bigger, and I also want to make it something that I really enjoy doin’ because I’m gettin’ to a place now where, you know, I’m not livin’ a life and then goin’ on tour. This is my life, and I want to try to enjoy it and hopefully make this somethin’ that I do for the rest of my life."

Riley and Langley won their first CMA Award last November for Musical Event of the Year for their collaboration on "You Look Like You Love Me." They also performed the song on the show.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.