Luke Bryan’s Tour Brings Out ‘Baby’ Acts
Luke Bryan kicks off his “Mind of a Country Boy Tour” in June after CMA Fest, and this year, he has many opening acts supporting him on the tour.
As Luke told us recently, he wanted a handful of baby acts this time around on the road. He said, “Last year was the first year that I brought out a rotation of young acts. It has been great getting to know these artists while they are in the infancy of their careers and letting them play for my audience.”
He added, “I will never forget early in my career, I got to open for Brooks and Dunn in Pittsburgh. I didn’t sleep the whole night. The fact that I can kind of reciprocate for some of these new acts is pretty special.”
Bryan concluded, “I had a blast doing it last year and this year will be the same thing.”
The country superstar’s tour kicks off in Jacksonville, Florida on June 13.
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In other Luke Bryan news, the singer tells us that he doesn’t want to track his kids, but now that his son Bo is driving, his wife tracks him on her mobile device.
Luke told us recently, “Caroline is on Life360 (a family location service app); Caroline tracks Jordan, Chris, Til, and Bo. I don’t want to do that yet because it can be very addictive to track your youngins and where they are at.”
Bryan revealed that just a few weeks into his driving-by-himself days, Bo almost got into some trouble. He said, “She pulled him up the other night, and he was still at a friend’s house, and he was going to miss his curfew, and we almost had to take the keys for the first time.”
He added, “It was Sunday night, you know, curfew, get home kind of thing, and he was running a little late.”
Luke knows that with his son’s life experience, the family is blessed, “He’s a great kid, and we’re blessed that he has grown up on our farm driving ATVs and kind of had a sense of the dangers of that stuff.”
The country star admitted that he was surprised by Bo’s driving skills, though, “I thought that he would have embraced driving a lot better early on, but it took him a minute to understand. We’ve done it so long we take for granted being a natural driver.”
He concluded, “His biggest thing is he’d change a lane on an interstate and decelerate while he’s changing lanes, and I’m like, ‘Son, you can’t change a lane going 65 miles an hour and slow down.’ We had a couple of moments there, but he’s doing great.”
