- Photo by Leslie Paczosa
After spending 2011 on the road with Blake Shelton, as part of Brad Paisley‘s H2O II Tour, Jerrod Niemann is set to hit the road with Blake’s wife, Miranda Lambert in 2012! The tour kicks off January 12, 2012 in Illinois, before 3 stops in Florida in the beginning of February.
“She would come out a lot on the road with Blake when we were out on Brad Paisley‘s tour together,” says Niemann in a recent interview. “So I really got to know her out there with Blake. It’s pretty cool that she was kind enough to extend the offer for us to go out with her. If Blake would have talked about our sitting on the bus, running our mouths at each other, she probably would have said, ‘I don’t need any more of that!’ [laughs]”
Although Niemann did mention that he might not play another big tour after they are done with the “On Fire” tour, since his new album, which is slated for release in spring of 2012, he’d like to headline dates rather than open. “I’m not saying we won’t do another [big] tour, but because this album is so conceptual, you really need your whole time to play it all because it’s not one of those things where you can go play 30 minutes before somebody and pull it off,” explains Niemann. “This album is all about the music — not that anybody’s isn’t — but you know it’s the whole album with the instrumentation that’s the concept, so it’s a little different. I dig it.”