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Published on 2026-05-07
Photo: Courtesy of Scott Kowalchyk @skpnyc
12x Grammy, 19x CMA and 21x ACM Award-winner Chris Stapleton returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, where he performed Willie Nelson’s “Living in the Promiseland” alongside Nelson’s longtime bandmate, harmonica player Mickey Raphael. Watch/share HERE.
The performance adds to yet another monumental run for Stapleton, who won Best Country Solo Performance at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards with “Bad As I Used To Be,” is the most-nominated male artist at the upcoming 2026 ACM Awards with six nods, and became the first country artist ever to have a song certified RIAA Double Diamond as “Tennessee Whiskey” sold over 20 million units.
Known for his electric live performances, Stapleton is currently on his extensive “All-American Road Show” with upcoming stops at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, Boston’s Fenway Park, Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Detroit’s Ford Field, Philadelphia’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre and Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium among many others. Special guests on the tour include Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Carter Faith, Nikki Lane, Ashley McBryde, Grace Potter, Maggie Rose, Allen Stone, Zach Top, Molly Tuttle and Lainey Wilson. See below for the complete tour itinerary.
In the past year, Stapleton has also released several new songs, including “Heart Letting Go” from Netflix’s hit show Nobody Wants This, “A Song To Sing” with Miranda Lambert, and “Bad As I Used To Be” from F1 the Album, and celebrated the ten-year anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album, Traveller. Beloved by critics, fans and fellow artists, and recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb, Traveller won Best Country Album at the 58th Grammy Awards, Album of the Year at both the CMAs and ACMs, and went on to become the best-selling country album of the 2010s. Following a historic turn on the 2015 CMA Awards — where Stapleton became the first artist to ever win Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year in the same year — Traveller became the first album in history to re-enter the Billboard 200 all-genre album chart at #1, where it stayed for two straight weeks. With global sales over 11 million, the album is certified RIAA 7x Platinum in the U.S. and has been streamed over 11 billion times around the world. Additionally, the album has spent over 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart — the first country album to do so. In celebration of the milestone, special-edition vinyl variants are now available here.
Stapleton has gone on to release four more studio albums including his most recent, Higher (Mercury Records, stream/purchase here), released in 2023. Produced by Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton and Chris Stapleton, the record landed on several “Best Of” lists including Billboard, Esquire, Vulture and Rolling Stone, who praised, “dazzling…the best evidence yet for the way one man’s voice has become synonymous with the very idea of a musical genre.” Additionally, GQ declared, “In an age rife with division, he’s maybe the only thing Americans all agree on…one of the most reliable hit makers in music” and NPR Music proclaimed, “Higher puts him where he always really was — in that classic kind of rock and soul, Tom Petty, Eagles, going beyond the confines of the genre.”
Additional highlights over the past decade include the National Anthem performance at 2023’s Super Bowl LVII, three appearances on Saturday Night Live, countless sold-out shows worldwide, and collaborations with Adele, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Sheryl Crow, Santana, Post Malone, Dua Lipa, Slash, George Strait and many more.
In addition to their work as musicians, the Stapletons are founders of the Outlaw State of Kind charitable fund, which supports a variety of causes that are close to their heart. Moreover, in 2024, Stapleton unveiled Traveller Whiskey, a first-of-its-kind collaboration created in partnership with Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley, which went on to become last year’s Most Awarded Super Premium Whiskey and was announced as the first official whiskey of Major League Baseball.
CHRIS STAPLETON CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
May 23—Nashville, TN—Nissan Stadium*
May 29—Panama City, FL—Gulf Coast Jam
June 11—Jacksonville, FL—VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena†
June 13—Tampa, FL—Raymond James Stadium*
June 17—Burgettstown, PA—The Pavilion at Star Lake†
June 20—Charlotte, NC—Bank of America Stadium*
June 24—Hershey, PA—Hersheypark Stadium
June 26—North Charleston, SC—North Charleston Coliseum
July 8—Mountain View, CA—Shoreline Amphitheatre‡
July 10—Chula Vista, CA—North Island Credit Union Amphitheater‡
July 11—Chula Vista, CA—North Island Credit Union Amphitheater‡
July 14—Paso Robles, CA—CA Mid-State Fair‡
July 17—Portland, OR—Providence Park#
July 19—Whitefish, MT—Under The Big Sky Festival
July 22—Vancouver, BC—Rogers Arena
July 24—George, WA—The Gorge#
July 25—George, WA—The Gorge#
July 29—Shakopee, MN—Mystic Lake Amphitheater†
July 30—Shakopee, MN—Mystic Lake Amphitheater†
August 1—Cincinnati, OH—Paycor Stadium*
August 6—Toronto, ON—Rogers Stadium+
August 8—Detroit, MI—Ford Field*
August 14—Boston, MA—Fenway Park+
August 15—Boston, MA—Fenway Park+
August 18—Virginia Beach, VA—Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach~
August 19—Richmond, VA—Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront~
August 21—Atlanta, GA—Mercedes-Benz Stadium^
August 26—Wantagh, NY—Northwell at Jones Beach Theater**
August 28—Philadelphia, PA—Freedom Mortgage Pavilion**
August 29—Philadelphia, PA—Freedom Mortgage Pavilion**
September 1—Toronto, ON—Rogers Stadium||
September 26—Louisville, KY—Bourbon & Beyond
October 2—Bristow, VA—Jiffy Lube Live††
October 3—Ocean City, MD—Country Calling Festival
October 7—Lincoln, NE—Pinnacle Bank Arena‡‡
October 9—Kansas City, MO—Morton Amphitheater‡‡
*with special guests Lainey Wilson and Allen Stone
†with special guest Allen Stone
‡with special guest Molly Tuttle
#with special guest Grace Potter
+with special guests Zach Top and Allen Stone
~with special guest Maggie Rose
^with special guests Lainey Wilson and Ashley McBryde
**with special guest Carter Faith
||with special guests Zach Top and Ashley McBryde
††with special guest Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
‡‡with special guest Nikki Lane
