Festival - Country Jam Colorado

Country Jam, a three-day country music festival in Colorado, returns in 2023, taking place in Grand Junction, just outside Mack.

The 2023 lineup and headliners include Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, 

, Dustin Lynch, Morgan Wade, Tracy Byrd, Ian Munsick, Randall King, Runaway June, Eddie Montgomery and Shane Profitt!

Also set to perform is a variety of prodigies and rising stars from across the genre, such as George Birge, Ashley Cooke, Grace Tyler, Colby Acuff, Ella Langley, John Morgan and more. 

Additionally, attendees will get the chance to see one of country's fast-emerging stars, 

, as he takes the helm for Country Jam Colorado's Wednesday night kick-off party.

The ‘Fall in Love’ hitmaker will help to whip the crowd into a frenzy ahead of the main festival performances. Zimmerman will be joined by Nate Smith and Conner Smith for the June 21 pre-festival celebration. 

Here, we'll have all the up-to-date news on line-up announcements, along with all the latest ticket and festival pass details for 2023.

For the full line-up of Country Jam Colorado, see below:

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The state's biggest country music festival is set to go ahead this year after the success of the 2022 festival where Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith and 

 topped the bill and Ingrid Andress, Ashland Craft, Travis Denning, Hardy, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Kip Moore, Craig Morgan, Drew Parker, Stephanie Quayle, Tanya Tucker and Lainey Wilson all made it a weekend to never forget.

For more information on tickets and for other country festivals set for 2023 and 2024 - head here.

All the latest line-up announcements, date confirmations and ticket details for Country Jam Colorado 2023.

Country Jam Colorado 2023

Rodeo-men have taken on an almost mythical status in country music, standing as a touchstone for a simpler, freer way of life. Yet the majority of rodeo songs and Wild West tales have been spun by artists that were cowboys in appearance and nothing more.

That was, of course, until Cody Johnson and his band stampeded onto the scene with his untethered 2019 label debut, 

. It topped both the Billboard Top Country Albums and the All-Genre Digital Sales charts. In actual fact, this was Johnson’s fourth album, having released the previous three on his own label.

It betrays a sense of unbridled determination that Johnson honed in a non-musical arena. Born in Sebastopol, Texas, Johnson started out as a competitive bull rider, living out the harsh realities of a life that had been idealised in so many country hits.

Although his path would ultimately deviate away from the rodeo circuit and into the music industry, Johnson’s albums are pervaded by an underlying determination to bring ‘the cowboy’ back to Nashville. His fans - collectivised as CoJo Nation - celebrate Johnson’s unique authenticity in an industry that has often manipulated the cowboy aesthetic as a marketing device.

In the summer of 2021, Cody Johnson offered fans an all-access pass into his journey so far with the release of his 

 documentary, named after his 2020 Reba McEntire collaboration of the same name.

Later that year, Johnson dropped his acclaimed double album, 

, which captured the energy of the rowdy, high-octane live shows that the Texan has become known for. Two of the stand-out tracks, ‘‘Til You Can’t’ and ‘Human’, showcased Johnson’s ability to fuse down-home humility with a rip-roaring sense of carpe diem. For ‘‘Til You Can’t’, Johnson would go on to win the 2022 CMA Awards for Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year.

Johnson closes out 2022 with the release of 

, which consolidates his status as a relentless road-warrior. While he might now be riding atop the country music charts instead of a bucking bull, with each release, Johnson makes one thing abundantly clear: on a ‘Cowboy Scale of 1 to 10’, he’s unmatched.

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Cody Johnson's albums are pervaded by an underlying determination to bring ‘the cowboy’ back to Nashville. 

Cody Johnson: News, Songs & Reviews | Holler

Country music star Blake Shelton learned to play the guitar as a young boy and took that talent to Nashville at age 17. He worked in and around the music industry, before eventually landing a record deal in 2001. 

Shelton released his first single 'Austin' that same year. It went to the top spot on 

's Hot Country Songs chart (formerly known as Hot Country Singles & Tracks). 

He released his self-titled debut that year as well, beginning a steady output of LPs that have accumulated to make him one of the most successful male country artists of his time. They include 2003's 

In between those albums, Shelton also released the 2012 Christmas album 

, Shelton accrued 17 consecutive number one country singles. 

Thanks to his impressive catalogue, Shelton was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2010. The honor followed a serious number of industry accolades, including CMA, ACM and CMT Awards. Shelton won Male Vocalist of the Year at the CMAs five consecutive years, between 2010 and 2014. 

Since 2011, Shelton has served as a coach on NBC's 

. Thanks to his presence on the musical competition series as well as his music, Shelton made the cover of 

's Sexiest Man Alive issue in 2017. He became the first country music artist to achieve that title. 

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Blake

Blake Shelton served as a coach on NBC's The Voice, 2017's People's Sexiest Man Alive and is a legendary country music artist with either Grammy nominations.

Blake Shelton: News, Songs & Reviews | Holler

When any starry-eyed country music hopeful packs up their life and moves to Music City, they're often moulded, sculpted and pulled in every which way by label execs in order to build a specific ‘brand’.  

, she's maintained a distinct determination to stay true to her roots. Many artists sing about their down-home upbringing as a marketing device, but for Lainey, it's always been the truth - all she needed was three chords to accompany it. 

She grew up in a camper trailer in rural Baskin, Louisiana, and stormed onto the scene with her reflective 2021 single, ‘Things A Man Oughta Know’. The track earned Lainey a No. 1, a Platinum certification and the award for ACM Song of the Year. Alongside this, Lainey also picked up the ACM New Female Artist of the Year prize. 

It didn't take long for Nashville to warm to Lainey's honeyed drawl and traditionally-minded yet contemporary sound. Billboard named Lainey as their Top New Country Artist of 2021, while CMT championed her as the 2022 Breakout Artist of the Year. 

If 2021 was Lainey's take-off, then 2022 saw Lainey rocketing into country's galaxy of modern-day stars. Two successful collaborations set the ball rolling. Her Cole Swindell assisted single, ‘Never Say Never’, became Lainey's second No. 1 in April 2022, while her dark, ominous HARDY duet, ‘wait in the truck’, sent ripples across Radnor Lake and quickly became one of the most notable tracks of the year.

This laid the foundation for the October 2022 release of 

The project spawned singles such as ‘Heart Like A Truck’ and ‘Live Off’, both of which embody the unpretentious, small-town way of life that continues to inspire so much of Lainey's music. 

Often, Lainey Wilson's sound of choice is fun, playful and swaggering, while at other times, it's beautifully poignant and heartfelt. But whichever sonic playbook she chooses to draw from, one thing's for sure - it's always going to be unmistakably, unashamedly and unwaveringly 

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Lainey

For Lainey Wilson, her brand is as simple as it is resolute - being her own damn self. 

Lainey Wilson: News, Songs & Reviews | Holler

Texas six-piece Whiskey Myers have marked out a sonic patch of turf that feels immediately recognisable as a concoction of Red Dirt and Southern Rock, with a healthy dose of straight-shooting Rock ‘n’ Roll thrown in for good measure.

Yet when you scratch beneath the surface of Whiskey Myers’ most popular tracks, the terrain becomes a lot harder to map. They’re not afraid to stray from the dirt-road tracks and surprise fans with a gospel-infused anthem or a bluesy twist.

Nonetheless, the songs that have gained the most prominence have been the grittier, Skynyrd-inspired anthems, epitomised on blazing tracks such as ‘Rolling Stone’, ‘Die Rockin’’ and ‘Frogman’.

in 2014 with mixed success, but saw their stock rise dramatically when they were chosen to be a part of the hit 

 TV series. Not only did they play on screen, but a number of songs, such as ‘Stone’, have made it onto the show’s hugely popular soundtrack.

This led to their whole catalogue being propelled into the Top Ten of the iTunes Country Chart, and helped to build momentum for a series of emphatic live shows across both the US and the UK.

, in the summer of 2022, a self-produced, guitar-driven and emotionally rich journey through Texas that again found the band testing out exciting new sonic waters.

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Whiskey Myers

Whiskey Myers are not afraid to stray from the dirt-road tracks and surprise fans with a gospel-infused anthem or a bluesy twist.

Whiskey Myers: News, Songs & Reviews | Holler

Country Jam Colorado 2023: Line-up, Dates and Tickets

Jof Owen is the New Music Editor at Holler. Now based in East London, he was born and raised in the English countryside in the small Buckinghamshire village of Wendover, and graduated from Winchester University with a BA honours degree in Contemporary Cultural Studies.

He is perhaps best known for being the singer in the indie pop band The Boy Least Likely To, who he formed with Peter Hobbs in 2003. They released their debut album, 

, in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim, earning spots in both Pitchfork’s Top 50 albums and in the Rough Trade Shop top 10 of that year.

Their song ‘Be Gentle With Me’ became one of those breakthrough songs that lent itself to a myriad of contexts with a video starring Rashida Jones. Their songs featured in everything from Greys Anatomy to Juno, from Coca Cola to car adverts. 

They were one of the last wave of mid-noughties indie bands who could happily play the Pitchfork stage at SXSW and appear on KEXP at the same time as enjoying mainstream success back home, with appearances on Popworld, GMTV and the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party.

, resonated just as quickly as the first, with ‘Stringing Up Conkers’ featuring in an Apple iPhone advert and ‘When Life Gives Me Lemons’ on the soundtrack to the hit Emma Stone movie, Easy A and more recently the Peter Rabbit movie.

Jof Owen formed the band Legends Of Country in 2015, inspired by his long standing love of country music and growing up watching 

 and listening to Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins. They have released two albums, 

As well as The Boy Least Likely To and Legends Of Country, he is also one half of the indie pop duo Bubble & Squeak with Poppy Hankin from Girl Ray.

Alongside singing and songwriting, Jof Owen has also written about country music for Holler, The Line Of Best Fit and Riposte magazine, as well as having a monthly fears column in Rough Trade Shops magazine. He has appeared as a guest on the Sentimental Garbage podcast with Caroline O’Donoghue talking about Twee, Gilmore Girls and Shania Twain. He also works for Thirty Tigers.

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