Clint Black Announces “Back On The Blacktop” Tour
The flunkeys over at the Country Music Hall of Fame have yet to do whats right and put Clint Black’s bronzed face on the wall. But true country music fans don’t need any symbolic plaudits to be sold on the idea that Clint Black is nothing short of a living country legend. And as a member of the “Class of ’89” and a neotraditionalist, Black helped save country music in the ’90s.
Clint Black might be a legend, but he’s no stooped-over ailing character ambling onto a stool at center stage. You still get everything you want out of a Clint Black performance as he runs through his 22 Number 1 hits and others that should have been. That’s why if you’re willing and able, you should see him on his “Back On The Blacktop Tour” just announced for 2025.
Along with performances at scores of amphitheaters and small arenas, the tour also takes Clint Black to the Outlaws & Legends Music Festival in Abilene, TX, the Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee, and the Winstock Country Music Festival in Minnesota.
He’ll be joined of course by his long-time co-writer and lead guitarist Hayden Nicholas and the rest of the Clint Black band. For more information and tickets, visit clintblack.com .
Clint Black’s Back On The Blacktop Tour:
March 19 – Nashville, TN – Grand Ole Opry
March 21 – Hot Springs, AR – Oaklawn Event Center
March 22 – Abilene, TX – Outlaws & Legends Music Festival
March 28 – Biloxi, MS – IP Casino Resort & Spa
March 29 – Bossier City, LA – The Event Center At Live! Casino & Hotel
April 3 – Panama City, FL – Aaron Bessant Park
April 4 – Green Cove Springs, FL – Clay County Fair
April 10 – Gonzales, TX – Cattle Country Music Festival
April 11 – Durant, OK – Choctaw Casino
April 12 – St. Charles, MO – The Family Arena
April 25 – Oxford, AL – Oxford Performing Arts Center
April 26 – Vidalia, GA – Vidalia Regional Airport
May 2 – Baton Rouge, LA – L’Auberge Casino & Hotel
May 4 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium
May 9 – Corpus Christi, TX – American Bank Center
May 10 – Hidalgo, TX – Payne Arena
June 1 – Helena, MT – Helena Civic Center
June 6 – Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field
June 7 – Battle Creek, MI – Firekeepers Casino Hotel
June 8 – New Haven, KY – The Amp at Log Still
June 14 – Petros, TN – Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
June 19 – Shipshewana, IN – Blue Gate Performing Arts Center
June 20 – Bettendorf, IA – Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center
June 21 – Winsted, MN – Winstock Country Music Festival
June 27 – Chandler, AZ – Gila River Wild Horse Pass
June 28 – Tulare, CA – Adventist Health Amphitheater
June 29 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento
July 3 – Pleasanton, CA – Alameda County Fair
July 4 – Valley Center, CA – Harrah’s Resort Southern California
July 5 – Coarsegold, CA – Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino
July 10 – Knoxville, IL – Knox County Fairgrounds
July 11 – Decatur, IL – Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater
August 3 – Camrose, Alberta – Big Valley Jamboree
August 15 – John Day, OR – Grant County Fair
August 17 – Calgary, Alberta – Country Thunder Alberta – Fort Calgary
August 22 – Mason, WI – Concert in the Corn
August 30 – Park City, UT – The Amphitheatre at Canyons Village
August 31 – Dillon, MT – Dillion Jaycees
February 28, 2025 @ 5:55 am
Hopefully he will add some Northeast dates later.
March 4, 2025 @ 8:53 am
Second to that, Jerseyboy!
February 28, 2025 @ 7:34 am
Should be a good tour. No dates really near me. Ive always liked clints music but ive never loved it. He still deserves to be in the hall but so do many others.
February 28, 2025 @ 10:49 am
I saw him last year at the Count Basie Center in NJ. He put on an awesome show.
February 28, 2025 @ 5:10 pm
He’s such a legend.
Completely overlooked his whole career, in many categories. His entire decade was top ten – he put up numbers that rival Loretta Lynn’s 1970’s chart run. Staggering success. And yet he was mostly ignored for nominations and awards after his debut album – a mystery to me after all these years. Luckily his fans and radio kept him in the spotlight. He will go in the HOF one day but it should be now. And in my opinion – “Killin’ Time” could be the album of the 90’s decade.
March 1, 2025 @ 2:04 pm
His debut album is a modern classic, but it’s firmly in the 80’s decade, being released in 1989, the same year as Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks hit the mainstream.
And Clint was better than both of them, as a singer and as a songwriter. He was a true honky-tonk singer in the Merle Haggard tradition.
Sadly, it went all downhill, quality-wise, from album no. 2, and by the time he married, he was done as an artist. A good song or two on every album, yes, but 80-90% of them are pure muzak, and hardly country at all.
That’s the way it went for them all. Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Sammy Kershaw, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence, Travis Tritt, Joe Diffie… excellent debuts, mediocre to bad follow-up’s. Only Aaron Tippin managed to stay true to himself, mixing traditional tunes with more poppier stuff without losing the grit in his voice and in his writing.
March 4, 2025 @ 8:56 am
Hard truths here, Sofus. At least we have the great first album or two from these guys, especially, for me, Clint and Travis.
February 28, 2025 @ 5:27 pm
Unfortunately he rarely comes to Ohio. Guess he thinks there are no Country music lovers here. I’ve always love him and his music. But … He never comes to Ohio.
February 28, 2025 @ 7:07 pm
I’d have thought that Clint Black is popular enough nationally to do concerts in larger venues in metro areas in the north, but I may be wrong. I imagine that concert tour promoters have fairly good ways of gauging where to set up dates. I guess Clint Black really fell off the table in the late ”90s–as did Travis Tritt. For whatever reasons, they couldn’t get recognized labels to even put out their records and they stopped making new music.
Even if concerts are really about the old hits, it seems like putting out a new album is the way to get invited on national TV programs and get publicity for a tour. Even the Rolling Stones seem to put out a new album in support of each concert tour (of vice versa).
March 1, 2025 @ 8:46 am
He stepped away from music around 2000/2001 to spend time at home after being on the road for 10 years. He left RCA and if I recall correctly, it was not a happy parting between the two. He started his own label called Equity, and it didn’t fly. He had one top ten album on Equity, and that was the end, essentially. Nothing hit after that, and radio moved on, and he was forgotten. I am surprised, as well, at his bookings – I would expect him to be booked at larger places and not just casino rooms.
March 1, 2025 @ 1:34 pm
Tracy Lawrence–no slouch himself, as far as hits, though he was never in the top tier when it comes to nominations and awards and recognition–is pretty active on the Internet and has interviewed a lot of his contemporaries and predecessors and some more modern artists. He interviewed Clint Black and really went into how influential “Killing Time” was on him when he got started. It gave me some additional respect for Clint.