Jordan Davis Slates Headlining Ain't Enough Road Tour: ‘It's Going to Be Some Great Music'
'The most pressure I feel as a touring artist is when you announce that new tour and now it's a blank slate,' Davis tells Billboard, noting his focus is on giving his best to find new ways of bringing his music and live shows to fans who have supported him since the beginning, from his 2018 debut album, Home State.
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'We're so blessed with an amazing fanbase, truly, the people that have been to 30+ shows and who continue to come and see us and support us,' Davis says. 'When I think of a new tour, that's who I immediately go to, the day one fans. It's like, 'How do I do something that they haven't seen?' If I can do something that feels new and feels cool to a fan that's been there from day one, I think I'm going to cover the wide range of fans we've picked up along the way.'
The Ain't Enough Road Tour will make stops in Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, St. Louis and more, before concluding Oct. 25 in Estero, Florida's Hertz Arena. Davis will welcome 'Hell Is a Dance Floor' hitmaker Vincent Mason as an opener. Also joining him is 'Truth About You' hitmaker Mitchell Tenpenny, who previously opened for Davis on his 2024 Damn Good Time World Tour and joined Davis on Luke Combs' recent stadium shows in Australia.
'Mitchell is a superstar,' Davis says, adding, 'Vincent had 'Hell is a Dance Floor,' and I could not stop listening to that song. I saw he signed with Universal, where I'm signed and the second I saw that, I was like, 'I've got to get this kid on tour.' Mitchell and me have a good time and Vincent looks like he's down to have a good time, too. It's going to be some great music.'
It was one of those recent Australia shows with Combs and Tenpenny in Brisbane, Australia, that presented Davis with one of his most memorable onstage moments to date.
'There were storms coming in,' Davis recalls. 'We were about three-quarters of the way through our show and I kept seeing the lightning getting closer. I thought, 'I don't know if we will be able to finish this [set] or not,' and just then my drummer came through in our in-ears and was like, 'We have to cut two songs.' I always end 'Buy Dirt' with an a cappella piece. I finished 'Buy Dirt' and I'm standing out there like, 'Ah, I can't not do this.' So, I just started singing it a cappella and about that time, it starts pouring rain. I've never heard a crowd get that loud in my life, singing every word. It was truly one of the most special moments I've had onstage.'
Starting with his 2018 Country Airplay chart-topper 'Singles You Up,' Davis has become a radio chart mainstay thanks to songs including 'What My World Spins Around' and 'Tucson Too Late.' Two of his hit singles have earned song of the year accolades: ACM song of the year winner 'Next Thing You Know' and CMA/NSAI song of the year winner 'Buy Dirt.' Those songs helped spur his 2023 album Bluebird Days to platinum-selling status, and earlier this year, he notched the No. 2 Country Airplay hit 'I Ain't Sayin'.'
With his new song 'Bar None,' he could potentially extend his chart-topping tally. Though Davis is often a co-writer on many of his hits, such as 'Tucson Too Late' and 'Buy Dirt,' his new song 'Bar None' is an outside cut, written by Hunter Phelps, Lydia Vaughn and Ben Johns, with production by Paul DiGiovanni.
'I fell in love with it from the first time I listened to it,' Davis says. 'The second you hear the hook, you want to be like, all right, I bet you they're going to do this. This one surprised me. I didn't really see it going here. I think about the line, 'If moving on had a scoreboard it'd say, 'You and your memory one/ Me and this bar none.' It gave me a smile, like 'Well done.''
He adds, 'I've always loved being able to kind of twist a hook. That's one of my favorite things about songwriting, to take an idea and go somewhere completely different with it. It's something that feels like a song I haven't done from a production standpoint, even instrumentation-wise, with the banjo part [at the beginning].'
While his new single centers on a vain attempt at drowning heartbreak in a barroom, Davis' time is devoted to his career and his family — both of which continue expanding as he keeps piling up hit songs, while he and his wife Kristen are expecting their fourth child. Davis says his growing family is looking at moving into a larger home.
'That was actually the first thing, when my wife told me she was expecting, I was like, 'Well, where are we going to put the nursery?' So, we've started the search for a place with another bedroom.' Davis says they don't know if the baby is a boy or girl yet, and notes, 'We're just going to wait and find out. We've got a girl [daughter Eloise, born in 2019] and two boys [Locklan, born in 2021, and Elijah, born in 2023], which means it'll probably be another boy, which will increase the gray hairs on my head,' he says with a chuckle. 'My boys want another brother, and my daughter really wants a sister.'
Even as he focuses on family and work, that doesn't mean Davis doesn't have a favorite Nashville bar he'll visit on occasion.
'I think my buddy Luke [Bryan]'s got a good [bar] downtown with Luke's 32 Bridge. My dad loves to come in town and go honky tonk. If he's in town, we'll go. That's one of the few times I'll hit up Broadway, and we usually always find ourselves at Luke's.'
See the tour announcement video for the Jordan Davis Ain't Enough Road Tour, featuring Peyton Manning and Jim Nantz, below:
Pre-sale tickets for the Ain't Enough Road Tour will be available beginning Wednesday at 10 a.m. through Davis's fanclub The Parish, while tickets for the tour go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. See the list of tour dates for the Jordan Davis: Ain't Enough Road Tour below:
Sept. 11 – Greater Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure ArenaSept. 12 – Concord, CA @ Toyota Pavilion at ConcordSept.18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek TheatreSept. 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial TheatreSept. 20 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta AmphitheaterSept. 26 – Independence, MO @ Cable Dahmer ArenaSept. 27 – St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz ArenaOct. 2 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music HallOct. 3 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at FenwayOct. 9 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank ArenaOct. 10 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate ArenaOct. 11 – Milwaukee, WI @ BMO PavilionOct. 16 – Dayton, OH @ Wright State University Nutter CenterOct. 17 – Hershey, PA @ Giant CenterOct. 23 – Duluth, GA @ Gas South ArenaOct. 24 – Savannah, GA @ Enmarket ArenaOct. 25 – Estero, FL @ Hertz Arena
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