Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser at the Rust Belt -- March 27.
Sunday, March 27, 8 p.m.
The Rust Belt, 533 12th Avenue, East Moline IL
Appearing locally in their “Country Cadillac Tour Part 2,” the critically acclaimed, award-winning duo of Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser play a special concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on March 27, the artist's significant supply of hits songs including such beloved tunes as “Give It Away,” “In Color,” “Like a Cowboy,” and “What Whiskey Does.”
Eleven-time Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Johnson, according to the Washington Post, is “one of the greatest country singers of our time,” as well as one of only a few people in the history of country music to win two Song of the Year Awards from both the CMA and ACMs. His 2008 album That Lonesome Song was certified platinum for earning in advance of one million in sales, and his ambitious double album from 2010, The Guitar Song, received gold certification and topped Billboard's U.S. Country chart. Johnson's dual Song of the Year Trophies were for “Give It Away” and “In Color,” and the artist has received tremendous praise from the New York Times, Spin magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Pop Matters described The Guitar Song as a recording that "takes us so viscerally through the darkness that the hopeful moments ring more true,” while Rolling Stone gave the album four-and-a-half stars and said that Johnson's work "rings true to one man’s unshakable vision."
Boasting an inimitable voice that the New York Times described as “wholly different, thicker and more throbbing, a caldron bubbling over,” Houser racked up three consecutive chart-topping hits with his album How Country Feels, and earned critical acclaim for his powerful delivery of the top-five smash and CMA Song of the Year-nominated “Like a Cowboy.” Houser added a fourth number-one sensation to his catalog with “We Went” from his 2016 album, Fired Up, with the artist's fourth studio album, Magnolia, marking a new era for the singer/songwriter that many have called “Houser at his best.” Listeners got their first taste of Houser’s critically acclaimed roots project with the top-30 hit “What Whiskey Does,” which debuted at Country Radio as the Number-One Most Added and inspired Rolling Stone to call the single “a classic tears-and-twang drinking song.” Magnolias, which NPR described as home to “some of the most expressive performances of his career,” also includes his single “No Stone Unturned,” a gypsy-hearted traveling song that Whiskey Riff labeled “the best song from the best album of 2019.”
Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser bring their “Country Cadillac Tour Part 2” to East Moline on March 27, admission to the 8 p.m. concert is $49-69, and more information and tickets are available by visiting TheRustBeltQC.com.
