Jamey Johnson Extends The Last Honky Tonk Tour
Johnson’s 43-City 2025 Headlining Tour Adds Four New Dates Including September 19 at The Mill Terre Haute
Terre Haute, IN – Award-winning country singer/songwriter Jamey Johnson extends his 43-city headlining tour, The Last Honky Tonk Tour, with four new dates, including a show at The Mill on September 19th Tour additions include Terre Haute, IN; Waukee, IA; Wheatland, CA and Las Vegas, NV. Tickets are available to the public starting Friday, July 25 at 10 a.m. local time.
“The tour will be a lot of fun,” says Johnson. “It’s a chance for us to hang out every night, where we get to walk onstage and show off what we’ve learned over the past 20 years. This is my 20th year on the road, not counting the road gigs I did in the 10 years before that.”
The tour’s name comes from the song he recently recorded, which was the title track of the 2010 album by The Wayne Mills Band, featuring musician Jason “Rowdy” Cope on guitar. “I thought that the name sounded pretty good as a tour name—The Last Honky Tonk Tour,” he adds.
The tour title’s lyrics include, “I’ll be there when they burn the last honky tonk down/
In body, mind, and spirit, under the table, or under the ground/
The fading echoes of a barroom band might be the only sound/
I’ll be there when they burn the last honky tonk down.”
Johnson’s new recording – which was completed with producer Buddy Cannon recently – and the tour name are in tribute to Mills and Cope, both of whom were his dear friends. Mills was murdered at a Nashville bar in 2013. Jason “Rowdy” Cope, a member of The Steel Woods who had previously been a member of Johnson’s band, died in 2021 from complications from diabetes.
“When Wayne and Rowdy got together and did that record, that song made it on my radar,” he says. “Back then, I played that song several times with Wayne. We would do it at shows. So, it is one I haven’t done in a while.
“And now Wayne’s son, Jack, is a badass guitar player. He says he learned it all from Rowdy. I don’t doubt that at all. Jack really is something else!
“I thought, ‘Man, his dad would be proud. Let’s break that song out and get Jack to play guitar on it.’ I am proud to have him playing on it.”
This is one of more than 50 new songs Johnson has recorded since releasing Midnight Gasoline, his first new solo album in 14 years, in late 2024. He will preview some of the new songs during this tour and begin releasing them later this year.
“We are going to do some of the new stuff,” Johnson adds. “We will do some of the songs from Midnight Gasoline from last year and all the years before. Whatever album you like, we will do some of those songs.
“It’s exciting to play the new songs,” he says. “I like it when people tell me they have heard the new stuff and they like it. I like it when people have something else to listen to. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.”
The Last Honky Tonk Tour Routing:
July 25, 2025 || Franklin, OH || JD Legends
July 26, 2025 || Franklin, OH || JD Legends
August 7, 2025 || Webster, MA || Indian Ranch Amphitheatre
August 8, 2025 || Quakertown, PA || Univest Performance Center
August 9, 2025 || Charles Town, WV || Hollywood Casino- The Event Center
August 15, 2025 || Roanoke Rapids, NC || Carolina Crossroads
August 16, 2025 || Petros, TN || Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Distillery
August 17, 2025 || Louisville, KY || The Louisville Palace
August 21, 2025 || Tuscaloosa, AL || Two Dimes
August 22, 2025 || Dothan, AL || Dothan Civic Center
August 23, 2025 || N. Charleston, SC || Marcus King Family Reunion
September 4, 2025 || Anderson, SC || Anderson Sports and Entertainment Center
September 5, 2025 || Cherokee, NC || Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Event Center
September 6, 2025 || Cherokee, NC || Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Event Center
September 11, 2025 || Hot Springs, AR || Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort
September 12, 2025 || Pryor, OK || Born & Raised Festival
September 13, 2025 || Helotes, TX || Floores Country Store
September 19, 2025 || Terre Haute, IN || The Mill Amphitheater
September 20, 2025 || New Madrid, MO || New Madrid Riverfront Park
September 21, 2025 || Council Bluffs, IA || Harrah’s Stir Cove
September 26, 2025 || Durant, OK || Choctaw Casino
September 27, 2025 || Fort Worth, TX || Billy Bob’s Texas
October 3, 2025 || Erie, PA || Warner Theatre
October 4, 2025 || Atlantic City, NJ || Tropicana Atlantic City
October 5, 2025 || Verona, NY || Turning Stone Resort Casino
October 10, 2025 || Biloxi, MS || Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
October 11, 2025 || Lake Charles, LA || Event Center at L’Auberge Casino Resort
October 17, 2025 || Nashville, TN || Schermerhorn Symphony Center
October 18, 2025 || Nashville, TN || Schermerhorn Symphony Center
November 4, 2025 || Oxford, AL || Oxford Performing Arts Center
November 16, 2025 || Waukee, IA || Vibrant Music Hall
December 11, 2025 || Wheatland, CA || Hard Rock Live
December 13, 2025 || Las Vegas, NV || Golden Nugget Casino