Clay Walker and Tracy Lawrence are spending part of the remainder of 2022 on the road together, but that might not be the end of their run of joint, co-headlining dates. The “Rumor Has It” singer hints that there might be more chances for fans to catch the country music hitmakers together in 2023 as well.
“That’s the talk right now is that there will be [more dates],” Walker tells Everything Nash. “I would suspect that there would be some. We’ve talked about doing it early in the year, and then there’s a bunch of offers coming in that we’re looking at. But as much as we are friends, it’s still business. We gotta make money, both of us. We know that it’s selling out pretty much everywhere we go, but getting promoters to buy in; there’s just such a pattern about the way that promoters do it. They do it safely. A lot of those guys got hurt during COVID, and it’s coming back now. So hopefully they see the value in the package. When you’re selling out four or six or seven thousand seats, and people are going crazy, there’s not a lot you need to hype. It’s just there.”
Although the two friends knew they would have fun together — and had tried for years to make this tour happen — Walker never imagined just how much fun they would have, or how much their combined tour would resonate with their fans.
“It’s more than what you could even expect or hope for as a fan,” Walker admits. “Tracy and I, having music that complements each other — and the craziest thing that people don’t know is that we’re actually on stage together doing this show … I don’t think people are understanding that that’s what’s going on. They show up and they see us together. I think it’s good that it’s such a shock. And then we’ll do two and a half to three hours of music, and still leave so much on the table. We literally cannot get all the hits into one show.”
Indeed, although they both have had massively successful solo careers, it’s even more fun when they can combine their talents on their collective hits.
“I’ll sing on ‘Find Out Who Your Friends Are,” which obviously that song lends itself to that because Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney both sang on that with him, but I’ll sing on a few others of his too, like a verse and a chorus,” Walker reveals. “And then he’ll do the same with my songs. He’ll sing on ‘If I Can Make a Living Out of Loving You’ or ‘Then What.’ It’s been spontaneous, but both of us know each other’s music very well. And it’s turned out to be quite a plus for both of us being on there at the same time.”
Walker’s latest album, Texas to Tennessee, is out now. Find music and tour dates at ClayWalker.com.
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