He brings his Cody Johnson and Friends Tour to MVP Arena in 2027 with Carly Pearce

From the press release:

Albany, NY – COJO Music / Warner Music Nashville Multi-Platinum recording artist and recent CMA Awards Entertainer of the Year nominee, Cody Johnson, is hitting the road on the heels of his new release, “Horseback” and new album, Banks of the Trinity. Cody welcomes rising country music star, Carly Pearce, taking the stage at MVP Arena in Albany, NY on Saturday, March 13th. Tickets will go on sale Friday, November 20th, at Ticketmaster.com.

Cody Johnson has been honored with 4 nominations for this year’s 60th Annual CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, Single of the Year (“The Fall”), and Video of the Year for Cody’s massive #1 hit “The Fall.”

“Always an honor to be nominated,” said Cody, “Thank you CMA, and congratulations to all the nominees. See y’all in November!”

Cody has four CMA career wins, including Male Vocalist (2025), Album of the Year for Leather (2024), and Video and Single of the Year in 2022 for “‘Til You Can’t.” He has a total of 19 CMA Award nominations throughout his career.

This month, Cody, the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year, announces his “Cody Johnson and Friends Tour 2027”. Media have praised Cody’s vocals and performances this year:

“Cody’s live show is not to be missed. He is as polished, entertaining, and incredibly talented as anyone in country music.”

“Johnson sounded solid and steady, delivering songs with the kind of confidence that comes from years of doing it the hard way. Not rushing, no over-singing, just letting the stories land. The show delivered exactly what it promised — nothing flashy, nothing fake, just a room full of people singing along to music that feels like it belongs to them.”

ABOUT CODY

Throughout the 16 new songs on Banks Of The Trinity, Cody Johnson is carrying the torch of traditional country music into the future, even as he’s looking back on the foundational moments of his life. Produced by longtime collaborator Trent Willmon, Banks of the Trinity follows 2023’s Leather, which won the CMA Award for Album of the Year. Instead of resting on those laurels, however, Johnson put out the call to Music Row to start sending him songs the very next day.

While preparing a new album for a late 2025 release, Johnson’s eardrum burst from a sinus and upper respiratory infection. Two weeks later, he and his wife welcomed their third child, a son. With three months off the road to heal and acclimate, Johnson spent time listening to material and discovered about half of the songs on Banks Of The Trinity. Although his background in rodeo and ranching is well known, Johnson realized he could now share a different side of himself.

“On this album, I wanted to tell the story about my childhood,” Johnson says. “When I heard the song ‘Banks of the Trinity’ for the first time, it was like this portrait showed in my head of memories that honestly I'd forgotten. It just took me back home to Sebastopol, Texas, where I grew up on the Trinity River. I had tears in my eyes when I heard it for the first time.”

For the album cover image, he chose a photo of Lawrence’s Grocery Store in Sebastopol. As a kid, Johnson would ride his bike for two miles down an old dirt road to get a cream soda and a Blue Bell ice cream bar. He loved listening to the old men talk a while before riding back home with a basket of groceries. For the additional album art, Johnson and his good friend Colby Lovell (a World Champion Team Roper) spent a day fishing on the Trinity River.

Although Johnson keeps his family life away from the cameras, it’s apparent that “Bible for a Boy” is a reflection of his pride as a father, while “Kissing a Married Woman” shows his deep affection for his wife, Brandi, whom he married in 2008. Johnson also branches out on duets with fellow country stars Brothers Osborne (“Foolproof”) and Luke Combs (“Shoot the Bull.”) Heard as a whole, Banks Of The Trinity captures nearly every tributary of modern country music.

“I feel like country music is a close cousin to bluegrass, and it's a close cousin to rhythm and blues, and it's a close cousin to gospel, and a little bit of rock and roll,” Johnson says. “I wanted to touch a little bit on each of those things, but then still have those songs that when you hear them, you know that's a Cody Johnson song. With ‘Hello Lonesome.’ I said, ‘That's about the country-est damn thing I've heard in 20 years, and I'm going to record it, and it needs to sound like it's supposed to sound.’ I didn't have any agenda with those kinds of songs, other than when you hear it, I wanted you to think, ‘Cody just wanted to record a damn country song.’”

Johnson says “Time Bomb” may be the song he’s most proud of on the album. “I was really telling my story,” he adds. “I was writing it on the phone with Trent Willmon, and he said, ‘You don't know what tomorrow holds. We're not guaranteed anything. This time bomb could blow up and be a bad thing. Or, in my opinion, it's a time bomb just waiting to blow up for you to be a freaking global superstar.’” Johnson liked the twist, then shared the idea with Noe Quintanilla and Codrick Murphy, two close friends who are also part of Johnson’s touring crew.

“I said, ‘Hey, y'all listen to this,’ and I played it for them,” Johnson recalls. “And the more we talked about it, and the more we started discussing it, it just kind of fell out. So not only did I get to write this about myself with Trent, but with two of my other best friends that I've known for all these years. I just feel like that was a really special moment. And the way that it turned out in the studio, if that song doesn't make you move, I don't know what to tell you.”

Since signing with Warner Records Nashville in 2019, Johnson has accrued more than 10 billion global streams worldwide. He landed his first #1 single in 2022 with “‘Til You Can’t,” which earned a Grammy for Best Country Song and two CMA Awards. He returned to #1 in 2024 with his uplifting love song, “The Painter,” and again twice in 2025 with “Dirt Cheap” as well as the Carrie Underwood duet, “I’m Gonna Love You.” Also in 2025, he accepted the ACM Song of the Year award for “Dirt Cheap,” picked up the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year award, and sold nearly half a million concert tickets. In March 2026, Johnson set a concert attendance record at NRG stadium playing to more than 80,000 fans during the Houston Rodeo.

Taking in this incredible moment in his career, Johnson also carries a newfound confidence and an innate sense that he’s just getting started.

“I feel like we're sitting on the tip of what's fixing to be something really big,” Johnson says. “I’ve said it over and over again, that everything happens for a reason. If I were experiencing the levels of success right now 10 years ago, I really think I would have imploded. I don't think I had the spiritual maturity. I don't think I had the kind of wisdom, financially, of how to be a leader or run a company. Also, in discipline musically, physically and mentally. I feel like I've got all my tools in my belt right now and I'm finally ready.”

ABOUT CARLY

Carly Pearce has become one of country music’s most authentic and defining voices. Fiercely rooted in the classics, the girl who left her Kentucky home and high school at 16 to take a job at Dollywood has grown into a woman who embraces the genre’s forward progression. The GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter burst onto the scene with her debut album, Every Little Thing, and its PLATINUM-certified, history-making title track, and she hasn’t slowed down since.

Now a member of both the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry, where she has performed more than 100 times, Pearce has come a long way from the heartache that inspired her critically acclaimed and commercially successful third studio album, 29: Written In Stone. The project includes the Country Radio chart-topping hit “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” with Ashley McBryde and the 2x PLATINUM-certified “What He Didn’t Do.”

Following her breakout success, Pearce was named CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 2021 and went on to win ACM Female Artist of the Year in 2022. In 2024, she released her critically acclaimed album hummingbird, featuring the PLATINUM-certified lead single “we don’t fight anymore” with Chris Stapleton. The track earned Pearce her second GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and marked her fifth Top 5 hit at Country Radio.

With a catalogue of fan favorites, Pearce has hit live touring milestones, playing her largest shows to date in 2026. Pearce continues to expand her global footprint—just wrapping her Inside the Dream Tour to major international stages from Australia's CMC Rocks to Ireland and the UK, with a headlining show at the famed Royal Albert Hall.

Now, with the release of her fifth studio album Honest Woman, Pearce enters a new chapter defined by freedom, confidence and embracing the full range of who she is. The album finds Pearce leaning into vulnerability, humor, self-assurance and her bluegrass roots, while fully owning her voice and artistic vision.