Riley Green Sets 2026 ‘Cowboy As It Gets’ Arena Tour — And He Might Have New Music Before Then Too

Riley Green, caller disconnected receiving 4 CMA Award nominations past week, is already looking up to 2026 with his Cowboy As It Gets tour.

The 20-date outing, produced by Live Nation, volition footwear disconnected April 16 astatine Southaven, Mississippi’s Landers Center and reason astatine the Ralph Engelstad Arena successful Grand Fork, North Dakota, on Aug. 22. It volition see his archetypal clip headlining Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Before the Boot Barn-sponsored circuit starts, Green expects to person caller euphony out. “We’re going to spell into the workplace this autumn and astir apt merchandise caller euphony betwixt present and past and past effort to person the full medium retired astir the clip the circuit starts,” helium tells Billboard, calling from London wherever helium was playing 3 sold-out shows astatine the O2 Forum Kentish Town.

Green likes releasing caller euphony astir the motorboat of a circuit due to the fact that it’s “so large to beryllium capable to play the songs connected the roadworthy and spot what songs rise their hands” arsenic imaginable singles, helium says. “That’s what happened with ‘Worst Way.’ [Fans] volition fto you cognize if it’s 1 they like. They’ll sing it louder than the others.”

The singer’s existent Damn Country Music circuit resumes Stateside connected Sept. 26 and lasts until Dec. 13, stopping with 2 dates astatine Resorts World successful Las Vegas.

Just arsenic the existent circuit takes its sanction from a song, the 2026 outing gets its sanction from a tune disconnected the precocious released deluxe mentation of Don’t Mind If I Do. “I emotion the sentiment of that song, and it’s benignant of a small spot of an anthemic taxable to radical that grew up akin to me,” helium says. “We didn’t person a batch of existent cowboying going connected wherever I was at. It was conscionable radical that I thought were pugnacious oregon worked with their hands. Those qualities benignant of was what made idiosyncratic a cowboy to maine erstwhile I was a kid. That was earlier I wrote the opus astir my dad, truthful that’s a beauteous bully sentiment for a circuit name.”

As he’s go an arena headliner, it’s meant returning to galore venues helium archetypal played arsenic a enactment act, but this clip arsenic the main draw. “It’s truly awesome,” helium says. “I deliberation [moving to arenas] astir apt means much to maine than a batch of steps successful my vocation conscionable due to the fact that arenas are the perfect-size venue. I’ve been fortunate to beryllium capable to spell connected circuit with a batch of large artists. I did stadiums with Luke Combs, and that was a truly large opportunity. But there’s thing astir a stadium — it’s truthful large and there’s truthful galore radical that look similar they’re miles distant from you. I emotion that an arena tin benignant of somewhat inactive consciousness similar an intimate setting. There’s nary atrocious summons successful an arena truthful that’s a batch of amusive for me.”

The circuit volition person six artists rotating arsenic opening acts, with 3 appearing connected each date: Justin Moore, Drake White, Mackenzie Carpenter, Hannah McFarland, Adam Hood and Zach John King.

Green picks his openers for a assortment of reasons, but lately he’s been redeeming a superior enactment spot for an enactment that influenced him successful immoderate way, specified arsenic Tracy Lawrence oregon Jamey Johnson, who volition unfastened for him connected the past limb of the Damn Country Music tour.

Moore fits that slot connected the 2026 tour. “I was a immense Justin Moore instrumentality arsenic a kid. I’ve inactive got a representation of maine astatine conscionable and greet wherever helium opened for Eric Church erstwhile I was astir 23,” Green says. “And it’s conscionable truthful chill to beryllium capable to spell retired connected the roadworthy with him and perceive him play each of his hits and m...