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Jason Aldean is mashing the pedal this year, announcing the dates for his 2025 Full Throttle North American tour on Tuesday (Jan. 21). The Live Nation-produced outing is slated to kick off on May 23 at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH and take the "Try That in a Small Town" singer across the country to a mix of arena, amphitheater and stadium shows as he winds his way through an Oct. 4 gig at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, FL.
The tour will feature opening acts Nate Smith, RaeLynn and Dee Jay Silver, and a previously announced co-headlining stadium show with Brooks & Dunn at Fenway Park in Boston on May 30. Tickets for the tour will go on sale first with an artist presale beginning on Wednesday (Jan. 22), with additional presales slated to run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale slated for Friday (Jan. 24) at 10 a.m. local time.
According to the release announcing the tour, Aldean is currently in the studio working on new music. A recent interview with Hook & Barrel magazine revealed that the as-yet-untitled LP will feature 10 new songs, "one of which he promises will be another iconic" one of his anthems.
"We got a new one on the album, it's just a powerful type of song that people are going to relate to," he teased, adding, "and it has nothing to do with politics or any of those things." The latter appeared to be a response to the controversy surrounding the video for "Small Town," which was yanked by CMT in July 2023 after just a few days of airing. The clip features Aldean performing in front of a courthouse festooned with an American flag; the performance footage is interspersed with images of burning flags and protesters clashing with police and robbing a convenience store.
Some critics labeled the song and video as pro-gun and pro-violence, and akin to a "modern lynching song," noting that it was filmed in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, TN, the site of the 1927 lynching and hanging of 18-year-old Henry Choate over allegations that he sexually assaulted a white girl, as well as the spot of a 1946 race riot in which two Black men were killed.
Speaking to the magazine, Aldean re-iterated that the song was not meant to stir a national discussion, but was a reflection of what he felt as going on in America at the time. "I don't think that song came about because we were trying to step out there and do something that really moved the needle," he said. "It was never intended to go in and specifically write something that was gonna stir the pot. It just came from a place of, this is on our mind. I'm 47 years old now, things change."
Check out the dates for Aldean's 2025 Full Throttle tour below.
May 23 -- Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center &
May 24 -- Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage &
May 25 -- Saratoga Springs, NY @ Broadview Stage at SPAC &
May 30 -- Boston, MA @ Fenway Park #
July 17 -- Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center &
July 18 -- Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP &
July 19 -- St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ^
July 24 -- Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater &
July 25 -- Denver, CO @ Ball Arena ^
July 26 -- Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre ^
Aug 7 -- Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena &
Aug 8 -- Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center ^
Aug 9 -- Pittsburgh, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake &
Aug 14 -- Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion &
Aug 15 -- Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman @
Aug 16 -- Austin, TX @ Moody Center ^
Aug 21 -- Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park ^
Aug 22 -- Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion ^
Aug 23 -- Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre ^
Sept 4 -- Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena ^
Sept 5 -- Green Bay, WI @ Resch Center &
Sept 11 -- Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre &
Sept 13 -- Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre ^
Sept 18 -- Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena &
Sept 19 -- Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena &
Sept 20 -- Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford PREMIER Center &
Sept 25 -- Lafayette, LA @ CAJUNDOME &
Sept 26 -- Birmingham, AL @ Coca-Cola Amphitheater &
Sept 27 -- Charleston, SC @ Credit One Stadium &
Oct 3 -- Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre &
Oct 4 -- West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre @
