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LUKE BRYAN ADDS A SECOND DATE TO NASHVILLE. (PRESS RELEASE & AUDIO)

LUKE BRYAN ADDS A SECOND DATE TO NASHVILLE. (PRESS RELEASE & AUDIO)
Nashville – (August 9, 2013) – Luke Bryan’s Dirt Road Diaries Tour is selling out venues across the U.S. and it was announced today that the tour will add a second show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Saturday, October 19TH due to overwhelming popular demand! The sold-out Friday, October 18TH show will feature openers Florida Georgia Line and Thompson Square and the October 19 show will feature very special guest Dierks Bentley and Cole Swindell.

Tickets for the Saturday, October 19th show will be on sale to the general public on Friday, August 16th at 10:00am at www.livenation.com, www.ticketmaster.com, the Bridgestone Arena Box Office or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000.

Luke’s fourth studio album Crash My Party, produced by Jeff Stevens, will be in stores next Tuesday, August 13. It contains the three-week #1 title track song “Crash My Party,” which recently set a Billboard record as the largest 1-week audience since 2005 with 45.5 million listeners and has sold a million copies. The latest single from the new project, “That’s My Kinda Night,” debuted this week at #21 on the Billboard Country radio chart, and is the highest debuting single of his career.

Luke’s career now boasts over four million in album sales with seven #1 singles and he is the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year. Luke was named the #1 Artist of 2012 and #1 Male Artist of 2012 by Country Aircheck. Billboard named tailgates & tanlines the #2 Country Album and the #3 Country Artist Album of 2012 and claimed Luke as the #3 Top Country Artist of the Year. Also in 2012, Luke took home 11 music awards, including a record nine wins at the American Country Awards as well as his first American Music Award. This spring, Luke co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton and received the coveted Entertainer of the Year award as well as the Vocal Event award with Jason Aldean and Eric Church for “The Only Way I Know.” At the CMT Music Awards in June, Luke won for Collaborative Video of the Year for “The Only Way I Know.”

Live Nation is the national tour promoter for the “Dirt Road Diaries Tour.” Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, is sponsoring the tour. GAC: Great American Country is the media sponsor for the second leg of the tour. For additional information on the tour and ticket on sale dates please go to www.lukebryan.com
or www.livenation.com.

“Dirt Road Diaries Tour”

8-9 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
8-10 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8-11 San Diego, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre formerly Cricket
Wireless Amphitheatre
8-23 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
8-24 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
8-25 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
9-12 Wichita, KS INTRUST Bank Arena
9-14 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
9-20 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
9-21 Denver, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
9-26 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
9-27 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
9-28 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
10-17 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
10-18 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
10-19 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
10-24 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
10-25 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
10-26 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre

Audio / Luke Bryan (perf live-intimate)

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AUDIO: Luke Bryan says he tries to make sure every person at his concerts has a great time.

Luke Bryan (perf live-intimate) OC: …creating moments. :43
for years and years I played bars and honky-tonks where I could look everybody in the face and try to sing to everybody in the bar. So, when you’re in a 10,000 seat arena or 25,000 seat amphitheater, I told myself I’m going to try to get this whole group of people feeling like it’s 1,000 people, and the only way to do that is keep your head looking at them and getting them involved.  And when you see somebody doing something funny, wave to them and dance with them and cut up and bring everybody in, unite everybody in this two-hour span that I have.   I think you immediately shrink the room when you do that.  It takes it from somebody being in the nosebleeds to somebody feeling like they’re a part of something more intimate and special and creating moments.