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Country singer Jordan Davis brought his Damn Good Time tour to Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater Friday night and showed the sold out crowd why the tour bears its name.
The hour-and-a-half set was the perfect mix of Davis’ ballads, sing-a-long hits and even some choice cover tunes played for a crowd that stayed on its feet the entire show and for certain had a damn good time.
Davis opened the show with the tour’s title track “Damn Good Time” and rolled through two dozen more songs from his newest album “Bluebird Days” including “Tucson Too Late,” “Next Thing You Know,” “Whiskey Weak,” and “Fishing Spot.”
But he also spent a little time with some of his previous hits, like “Singles You Up,” which he reminded the crowd was his “first ever number-one single,” but judging by the sounds of the crowd singing along, they already knew.
The band did a stripped down set of songs from Davis’ first album “Home State” where band members joined Davis at the front of the stage in a more intimate setting as they sang and played while sitting on Yeti coolers. Davis told the crowd when he first started writing songs, all he knew how to write were songs about his home state of Louisiana.
Davis then launched into several deeply personal songs off the new record including “Fishing Spot,” which he dedicated to his two “grandpas.”
Then it was time to bring the party back.
“Enough of them slow songs, huh Nashville?” he asked, soliciting cheers from the crowd.
Then Davis asked the crowd if anyone remembered burning their favorite songs onto CDs, joking about how it was so fun to add a bunch of your favorite, random songs to a blank CD and then giving it a name like “Summer ’07 Jams.”
Which he then proceeded to bring to life on stage not only through some great cover tunes, but with a visual on the screen of a blank CD with songs hand written on it in black ink.
“Remember when you could download songs along with every computer virus known to man?” he joked. “It really was the golden era of music.”
The band rolled through “Hanging By A Moment,” by Lifehouse, “Over My Head (Cable Car),” by The Fray, “You’ll Think of Me,” by Keith Urban, “This Love” by Maroon 5, “I Don’t Want To Be,” by Gavin DeGraw and “Drops of Jupiter” by Train.
Davis and the band left the stage after a few short goodbyes leaving his biggest hit un-played, which means one thing. You guessed it, mandatory encore.
Thankfully Davis didn’t leave the crowd hanging for too long before he came back out alone with an acoustic guitar and played “Detours,” and then sets up the song he and his brother, Jacob Davis, along with writers Josh and Matt Jenkins, wrote about “…three things: our faith in Jesus Christ, our families and our friends,” before launching into “Buy Dirt.”
“I’ll never forget tonight,” he told the crowd before leaving the stage. “Thank you for this right here.”
Openers for the Nashville show were Georgia Webster, Jameson Rodgers and Gabby Barrett.
Set list:
- “Damn Good Time”
- “Whiskey Weak”
- “Lose You”
- “Singles You Up”
- “You’ve Got My Number”
- “Church in a Chevy”
- “Almost Maybes”
- “Tucson Too Late”
- “Next Thing You Know”
- “Leaving New Orleans”
- “Tough To Tie Down”
- “Bluebird Days”
- “Fishing Spot”
- “Short Fuse”
- “Hanging By A Moment”
- “Over My Head (Cable Car)”
- “You’ll Think of Me”
- “This Love”
- “I Don’t Wanna Be”
- “Drops of Jupiter”
- “What My World Spins Around”
- “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot”
- “A Little Lime”
- “Take It From Me”
- “Detours”
- “Buy Dirt”
Melonee Hurt covers music and music business at The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK — Tennessee. Reach Melonee at mhurt@tennessean.com or on X @HurtMelonee.
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