Cole Swindell Opens Up About Down Home Tour, New EP
Down Home Sessions III is slated for release on Oct. 28, two days after his tour kicks off.
For the third year in a row Cole Swindell is gearing up to hit the road on his headlining Down Home tour, which will also coincide with his Down Home Sessions III EP release.
During a recent celebration of his No. 1 success in Nashville, Swindell delved on some of the details on what to expect in the next chapter of his down home traditions.
“This will be the third year we’ve done it,” he explains. “For me to get to go back to the clubs where all of us we came up playing, I don’t know… It just feels like home because that’s where I fell in love with being on stage.”
Swindell has spent his career as an artist artist opening the stage for some of country music’s biggest acts, most recently Florida Georgia Line. Prior to that he has opened for Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, all of whom have won an Entertainer of the Year honor.
The venues on the Down Home tour will mostly feature smaller, more intimate settings compared to the larger than life spaces he’s spent the last few years playing. Being on the road with such great performers has had an influence on the rising star, resulting in new habits he plans to apply on his upcoming trek.
“I want to get it to where my heroes have been I want to play those big venues and have people I believe in opening up for me,” Swindell continues. “From Luke, Jason, Kenny, Florida Georgia Line, that doesn’t even sound like real life if those are your first four tours. So I think if you’re not learning something you’re missing out big time. One thing they’ve all had in common is how well they’ve treated me and their openers and I just can’t wait for the day I get to be in that position.”
Despite just recently releasing his second studio album, You Should Be Here, Swindell still plans to release another Down Home Sessions installment.
“I just had an album come out in May and we were stuck with the decision do you put more music out, and I didn’t even think about it, this is for the fans,” the 33-year-old singer says. “If I were in college and Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and Luke put something out I would have been the first one to buy it. So I just think it’s our way to give back to them and let them see a show up close and personal.”
Down Home Sessions III is slated for release on Oct. 28, two days after his tour kicks off.
“Who knows when the real big headlining thing is coming,” he concludes. “But right now, I’m happy to be out there with some of my best friends and I’m looking forward to the Down Home tour here soon.”
