Lauren Alaina will be one of the opening acts on select dates for Luke Bryan’s Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day Tour, which kicks off May 5th in Nashville. The trek also features Brett Eldredge and will include nearly 40 dates through October.

Lauren says Luke has always been supportive of her, even when the two Georgia natives toured together on Jason Aldean’s My Kinda Party Tour in 2012.

“Luke is family to me. He’s been really, really supportive of me, and always been somebody that I really felt like cared about me. You know what I mean? Like there are people that support your music and are nice when you see them, but I legitimately feel like Luke cares about me, and if he doesn’t, he has a really good way of making you feel that way and that’s admirable as well,” says Lauren. “I just think he is so talented and so humble about it. He has no idea that he’s Luke Bryan. I really don’t think Luke Bryan knows he’s Luke Bryan. I’m like, ‘Do you understand who you are? Everyone knows who you are.’ That’s so inspiring to me, because it’s really important to me to be a good person, and I think it should be important for everyone. I want people to think of me the way I think of him.”

Lauren is closing in on the Top 10 with her latest single, “Road Less Traveled,” the title track from her new album.

She’s currently on the road with Martina McBride on the CMT Next Women of Country Love Unleashed Tour 2017. The next stop on the trek is Thursday (February 16th) in Minneapolis.