Miranda Lambert & Little Big Town perform together during 2018’s The Bandwagon Tour
Reid LongMiranda Lambert and Little Big Town are teaming up this spring to revive The Bandwagon Tour, four years after their successful 2018 co-headlining run by the same name.
This year’s 15-city outing, produced by Live Nation, will also feature The Cadillac Three as direct support for all shows. The tour launches May 6 in Houston, and will include stops in Dallas, Cincinnati, St. Louis and more, before wrapping June 11 at Camden, New Jersey’s BB&T Pavilion. Just prior to the launch of The Bandwagon Tour, Lambert and The Cadillac Three will perform a pair of amphitheater shows in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27 and Franklin, Tenn. on April 28.
Lambert is nominated for a Grammy heading into this year’s ceremony, for her collaborative album The Marfa Tapes with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram. Her latest single, “If I Was a Cowboy,” is out at country radio. Meanwhile, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman and Phillip Sweet are working on their 10th studio album, set to release later this year. The project will follow their 2020 album Nightfall, which was nominated for best country album at the Grammys. In addition to previously touring together, Lambert and Little Big Town collaborated on the 2015 single “Smokin’ and Drinkin” from Lambert album’s Platinum.
The Cadillac Three, known for their blend of country and southern rock on songs including “The South” and “White Lightning,” most recently released a pair of studio albums in 2020: Country Fuzz and Tabasco and Sweet Tea.
Tickets for the tour’s opening night in Houston will go on sale Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets for all other tour dates will go on sale Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. local time.
See the list of show dates below.
April 27: Tuscaloosa Amphitheater | Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Lambert and The Cadillac Three only)
April 28: FirstBank Amphitheater | Franklin, Tenn. (Lambert and The Cadillac Three only)
April 29: William Green Football Stadium | Johnson City, Tenn.
May 6: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman | Houston, Texas
May 7: Dos Equis Pavilion | Dallas, Texas
May 8: Walmart AMP | Rogers, Ark.
May 12: Credit One Stadium | Charleston, S.C.
May 13: MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre | Tampa, Fla.
May 14: iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre | West Palm Beach, Fla.
May 20: Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre | St. Louis, Mo.
May 21: Ruoff Music Center | Noblesville, Ind.
May 22: Riverbend Music Center | Cincinnati, Ohio
June 2: Budweiser Stage | Toronto, Ont.
June 3: DTE Energy Music Theatre | Detroit, Mich.
June 4: Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
June 9: Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater | Wantagh, N.Y.
June 10: PNC Bank Arts Center | Holmdel, N.J.
June 11: BB&T Pavilion | Camden, N.J.
Dave Mustaine has chosen to bring Megadeth to an end after completing one final tour due to ongoing health challenges.
The band plans to step away next year once they wrap up their farewell run and release their final album. Frontman Dave, 64, has now shared that he reached this decision because arthritis and issues with his back have left him “unable to give a hundred per cent every night”.
Speaking on SiriusXM's Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Dave said, “It had been building up for a long time, just physical things happening with my hands … My hands were starting to fail me.
“And there were other difficulties tied to everything going on with my neck and my trunk. That whole area has arthritis and some bulging discs.
“I have a fractured lumbar bone. And of course, my back has been fused near my shoulders and neck. There is just a lot going on …
“I always said that when the time came where I could no longer give a hundred per cent each night, that would be the moment I would start thinking about slowing down.”
He continued by sharing that the choice became clear after the band completed recording their final self-titled project.
Dave explained, “It was not that I couldn’t give a hundred per cent, because we finished the album and I feel we did well with it, but while we were working I had a moment where I told my manager … ‘I am not sure how much longer I can continue. My hands are really hurting.’
“I did not intend to set things in motion. I was just talking, but it led to conversations with the band, then taking time to reflect, speaking with my family, and praying about it.
“And the answer was obvious to me that by the time the album was finished, I would know how it would perform. If it does really well, I can still deliver one final strong tour.
“And the idea of a farewell feels connected to that. We have certain shows we want to play so we can say goodbye to the people who have supported us.”
Dave added, “We are an American band, but we perform all over the world. We are not weekend performers like some country acts in the States. We have a lot of ground to cover if we want to say goodbye the right way.”
The band’s seventeenth studio album, Megadeth, will arrive in January, and their This Was Our Life tour begins in Canada in February.
