JUST ANNOUNCED: CHRIS STAPLETON BRINGS “ALL-AMERICAN ROAD SHOW” TO DTE ENERGY MUSIC THEATRE FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 AND SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2021

(DETROIT – April 19, 2021) – Chris Stapleton won Album of the Year at the 56th ACM Awards for his critically acclaimed new record, Starting Over. Stapleton also performed his new song, “Maggie’s Song,” during the live awards broadcast with special guest Miranda Lambert. Watch here. The accolade adds to yet another monumental year for Stapleton, who will return to the stage this summer with his extensive “All-American Road Show,” including newly confirmed stop at DTE Energy Music Theatre for two nights on Friday, August 6, 2021 and Saturday, August 7, 2021. Elle King will provide support on Friday and Yola will join Stapleton the following night. Kendell Marvel will open both shows, beginning at 7 p.m.

Tickets (starting at $39.75 on the lawn) go on sale Friday, April 30 at 10 a.m. at 313Presents.com, LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster.com. All venue box offices are currently closed. For information on Stapleton Fan Club pre-sale tickets visit StapletonFanClub.com. Citi is the official presale credit card of Chris Stapleton’s “All- American Road Show” tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets through Citi Entertainment®. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com. Live Nation is the official promoter of the “All-American Road Show.”

Additional tour highlights include headline shows at Washington State’s Gorge Amphitheatre, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, New York’s Madison Square Garden and “A Concert for Kentucky” – a special performance to be held at University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field on April 23, 2022. The concert is the first ever held at UK’s Kroger Field and will feature very special guests Willie Nelson and Family, Sheryl Crow and Yola. 100% of the concert’s net proceeds will benefit Stapleton’s newly created Outlaw State of Kind Hometown Fund. Established in partnership with the Blue Grass Community Foundation, the fund will specifically support local and national organizations directly impacting Kentucky, with initial grant distributions focusing on music and arts education.

The performances celebrate the release of Starting Over, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart this past November. Moreover, the album’s title track recently reached #1 at country radio’s Mediabase Chart, only Stapleton’s second chart-topping single as an artist following 2018’s “Broken Halos.” Released this past fall on Mercury Records Nashville (stream/purchase here), Starting Over is an album of startling prescience, featuring 14 tracks that examine life’s simplest joys and most serious struggles. Once again produced by Grammy® Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the record landed on several “Best of 2020” lists including NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Esquire, Vulture, The Tennessean and The New York Times, who declares, “Chris Stapleton’s roar isn’t designed to scare you off. It’s regal, an announcement of an alpha figure asserting his primacy…on this, his fourth album, the thrill is back.”

Recent critical acclaim for Starting Over:  “Chris Stapleton may have the album of the year with Starting Over”—American Songwriter 

“a sure-footed masterpiece…one of the year’s finest albums”—Associated Press 

“Simply put, there are few recording artists in country operating at Stapleton’s level, and Starting Over keeps the bar very high.” —Billboard

“a dynamite and dynamic new album from the mighty-voiced Kentucky native…the singer-songwriter is hitting new heights, nailing the crossroads of country, rock, gospel, and pop across 14 tracks.”—Entertainment Weekly 

“14 rich, intricately-wound odes to tiny admissions and big emotions”—Esquire 

“mixes beautifully stark songwriting with blues, country, and rock melodies, allowing Stapleton’s sturdy, propulsive vocals to carry the show”—GQ 

“vividly exemplifies the complex emotional character of Stapleton’s best music. He’s burly but soft. Tough yet vulnerable. A protector of his loved ones and a man in perpetual search of shelter.”—Los Angeles Times 

“Chris is at the top of his game with this record. It sounds like a record from a great.” —NPR Music 

“Starting Over may be Stapleton’s best album yet…every song on the album comes as a perfectly wrapped gift to the listener”—No Depression 

“Regardless of where he’s going lyrically, Stapleton brings to each successive tune a rugged assuredness and a steely resolve: There’s never any doubt that he means what he says”—Relix 

“The chill Nashville trailblazer feels at home in songs that echo his pop songwriting and his country roots.”—Rolling Stone 

“if Starting Over offers a statement of principles, it’s that Stapleton is going to make Stapleton music, equal parts country, Southern rock, raw sentimentality, and self-reflective singer-songwriter-ism.”—Slate 

“It is easily one of the best records I’ve heard this year. It’s easily one of the best country records I’ve heard in a long time. And I have no doubt it’s going to be one of the best country records I’ve heard this decade once everything is said and done.”—The Needle Drop 

“lands precisely where country meets Southern soul: with grit, details, clarity and ache.” —The New York Times 

“the results are stunning…his most personal work yet.”—The Ringer 

“expands a sonic identity and storytelling fervor that Stapleton established on his paramount debut, Traveller, and its two-part follow-up, From A Room Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.”—The Tennessean 

“He has [Willie] Nelson’s tender touch, but his bluesy side is much louder; his is a part-acoustic, part-stinging approach in which Nelson’s Trigger meets B.B. King’s Lucille.”—Variety 

“It’s every bit the tour de force his breakthrough album was…Elegant writing and delicate musicianship combine in an album ranking among the year’s best.”—Vulture

Kentucky-born Stapleton is a 5x Grammy®, 10x CMA and 9x ACM Award-winner and one of the country’s most respected and beloved musicians. Following 2015’s quadruple platinum breakthrough solo debut album Traveller, Stapleton released two #1 albums in 2017. Both From A Room: Volume 1 (certified platinum) and From A Room: Volume 2 (certified gold) take their name from legendary RCA Studio A, where they were recorded with Cobb. Released to overwhelming critical acclaim, The Tennessean praises, “Both are rich with the textures of Stapleton’s vocals that make him one of country music’s most beloved artists, classic country sounds and thoughtful articulate lyrics about love, life and pain.” He was also recently announced as the first-ever “Artist-Songwriter of the Decade” recipient by the Academy of Country Music.

STARTING OVER TRACKLIST 

STARTING OVER TRACKLIST 

1. Starting Over 

2. Devil Always Made Me Think Twice 

3. Cold

4. When I’m With You 

5. Arkansas 

6. Joy Of My Life 

7. Hillbilly Blood 

8. Maggie’s Song 

9. Whiskey Sunrise 

10. Worry B Gone 

11. Old Friends 

12. Watch You Burn 

13. You Should Probably Leave 

14. Nashville, TN