Cody Johnson Tour 2026

Inside Cody Johnson

Cody Johnson is the Texas-traditional country headliner who walked into Nashville with a working cowboy's resume already filled out — ex-prison guard, ex-bull rider, fourth-generation East Texas — and built one of the largest country touring operations of his generation without ever once trading the steel guitars and shuffle beats for the country-pop production that was supposed to be the only way through. The major-label debut Ain't Nothin' to It arrived through Warner Music Nashville in January 2019 after more than a decade of self-released grinding through the Texas dance-hall circuit, and the catalogue from that point forward has been a deliberate, unbroken argument for a kind of country music that the radio format mostly stopped making: real Telecaster, real fiddle, real twin-fiddle waltzes, songs about rodeo grounds and divorce and the actual mechanics of a small-town life.

"'Til You Can't" landed in late 2021, ran to No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart, picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, and won CMA Song of the Year and Single of the Year — the kind of cross-format moment that flipped Johnson from the largest secret in country music to a stadium-tier headliner inside a single album cycle. "The Painter" — the love song he wrote for his wife Brandi — followed as the next No. 1, then "Human" anchored the next radio cycle, then the title track of Leather (2023) extended the catalogue into the Texas dance-hall material that Johnson had been quietly chart-topping the regional Texas radio format with for ten years.

A CMA Award winner, an ACM-stamped touring operation that sells through Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to record attendance, a back catalogue of ten self-released and major-label studio records, and a band of road musicians who have been with Johnson since the dance-hall circuit days have built the kind of headlining operation that does not need a viral moment or a TV special to move tickets. This page is the landing spot for current Cody Johnson tour dates, ticket information, setlists and city-specific show information, kept evergreen year-round so it tracks every Leather Tour and post-Leather routing leg as the calendar rolls out from arenas into rodeo grounds and back again.

About Cody Johnson

Cody Wayne Johnson was born May 18, 1987 in Sebastopol, Texas — an unincorporated community in the East Texas pines about an hour and a half north of Houston — and raised between Huntsville and the rodeo grounds his father took him to as soon as he could climb a fence. He picked up a guitar in his early teens, picked up bull riding around the same time, and rode the Texas amateur rodeo circuit through high school and into his early twenties as a working bull rider with serious enough chops to chase a pro card.

The day job that funded the music for the first eight years of the career was a corrections officer at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, the prison-town the East Texas Department runs out of; Johnson worked the gates and the towers in uniform from 2008 through about 2013 while gigging four and five nights a week at the dance halls — Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Billy Bob's in Fort Worth, the Houston honky-tonks — and self-releasing studio records under his own CoJo Music imprint. Black and White and Six Strings (2006) was the first record; Cowboy Like Me (2010), A Different Day (2011), Cowboy Like Me Deluxe (2013), Cowboy Like Me Bonus (2014), Gotta Be Me (2016) and Cowboy Like Me's various reissues followed across the next decade.

By 2014 the Texas country radio format had Johnson at the top of its airplay chart and Billy Bob's Fort Worth on its books for sold-out multi-night runs; the major-label conversation that Nashville had spent five years not having with him finally happened in early 2018 when Warner Music Nashville signed Johnson on a deal that — unusually for a Music Row contract — let him keep his band, his producer Trent Willmon and his publishing imprint intact.

Ain't Nothin' to It came out in January 2019 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the largest country debut of the year. The Cowboy Like Me dance-hall material that Johnson had been chart-topping the Texas regional format with for a decade was the spine of the record; "On My Way to You" was the lead single and his first national No.

1. Human: The Double Album arrived in October 2021 as a sprawling double-album set with seventeen tracks across two discs, and "'Til You Can't" — the song that flipped the catalogue from regional Texas-country headliner to stadium-tier — landed as the lead single.

The song ran to No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart, won the 2022 CMA Song of the Year and Single of the Year, picked up the 2023 Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, and put Johnson on the front row of the country format's award-circuit conversation for the first time. "The Painter" — the love song he wrote for his wife Brandi Johnson, the high-school sweetheart he has been married to since 2011 and with whom he has three daughters — followed as the next No.

1; "Human" anchored the next cycle. Leather arrived in November 2023 with the title track and "The Fall" as the two anchor singles, extended the Texas dance-hall material into another platinum-selling record, and built out the Leather Tour stadium-and-arena routing that has rolled continuously since.

A CMA Award winner, an ACM-recognised touring operation, and one of the very few Texas-traditional country headliners selling rodeo grounds and arenas at scale, Johnson remains based out of Huntsville with Brandi and the daughters and runs the CoJo Music imprint as his publishing home.

Cody Johnson tour dates

The current Cody Johnson touring chapter is the rolling Leather Tour, the arena-and-stadium routing he launched off the back of the November 2023 Leather album and has kept on the road across multiple legs since. The routing mixes major North American arenas — Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Toyota Center in Houston, American Airlines Center in Dallas, Moody Center in Austin, Madison Square Garden in New York, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto — with rodeo headlining runs that are the practical backbone of any Cody Johnson touring year, plus amphitheater swings on the down legs and the dance-hall throwback weekends at Billy Bob's Fort Worth and Gruene Hall in New Braunfels that Johnson keeps on the calendar as a tip of the hat to the venues that built the career.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo run at NRG Stadium is the single biggest annual booking — Johnson has headlined the rodeo to record attendance multiple times and the rodeo is the only stadium-cap room he plays multiple nights a year. Sets run a deliberate 110 to 125 minutes with no intermission and no backing tracks; Johnson fronts the same eight-piece road band he has played with since the dance-hall years — twin fiddles, full pedal steel, two electric guitars, Telecaster lead — and works the catalogue with a deliberate steel-guitar Texas-country density that the modern country-radio format mostly stopped making.

Production scales by venue: arena nights run a four-sided LED rig, a thrust stage and a flame-pot pyro hit on the "'Til You Can't" chorus drop, while rodeo nights play the standard rodeo-grounds stage build with the giant LED scoreboard as the only screen. Pricing across the Leather Tour holds in the fan-friendly band that Johnson and his manager Jason Henke have publicly defended — $35 to $50 upper bowl, $65 to $110 lower-bowl reserved, $125 to $200 floor with front-of-stage pit packages capped around $250.

Support acts rotate by leg and lean toward the Texas dance-hall and neo-traditional country artists Johnson personally listens to — Randy Houser, Jake Worthington, Ian Munsick, Drake Milligan, Tanner Adell, Pat Green, Whiskey Myers — with a typical two-opener bill running about 90 minutes before Johnson hits the stage at roughly 9:00. The grid above pulls the live schedule directly from Ticketmaster and updates as new Leather Tour and post-Leather dates are confirmed.

Cody Johnson tickets

Cody Johnson tickets are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet, with secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster's own Face Value Exchange linked from each event card on this page. Arena pricing on the Leather Tour typically opens with upper-bowl seats in the $35 to $50 range, lower-bowl reserved at $65 to $110, floor at $125 to $200 and front-of-stage pit packages capped around $250 — deliberately well below the country-stadium-headliner pricing curve and one of the things Johnson has been publicly vocal about defending.

Rodeo tickets on the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Houston Rodeo Carnival, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Fort Worth Stock Show and other major U.S. rodeos are sold through the rodeo's own box office and are a separate, lower-priced ticket — typically $25 to $75 for the entire rodeo-plus-concert package — that does not appear on the Leather Tour Ticketmaster on-sale. CoJo Nation fan club presales open the Tuesday before the Friday public on-sale and are the most reliable path to good seats on the major-market arena dates; the membership runs a flat annual fee through the official codyjohnsonmusic.com site and includes presale access plus member-only meet-and-greets on select dates.

Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration is used on the highest-demand Leather Tour on-sales — Houston, Dallas, Nashville — to keep bot inventory off the early window. Face Value Exchange is the resale tool Johnson and his team push as the cleaner secondary alternative; listings are capped at the original face value and clear directly through Ticketmaster, which keeps marketplace markup off most arena nights.

Dynamic pricing is used sparingly on Cody Johnson on-sales by his own request, so face value typically holds from queue open to checkout on most dates. Always buy from a marketplace with a buyer guarantee.

Cody Johnson setlist

A current Cody Johnson setlist runs about twenty-three to twenty-six songs across 110 to 125 minutes with the band tight and the pacing built around the steel-guitar Texas-traditional country density that defines the catalogue. The night usually opens with a hard-driving Cowboy Like Me-era dance-hall cut — "Y'all People", "Long Haired Country Boy" or "Diamond in My Pocket" — to set the honky-tonk tone, then settles into a mid-set hit run that pulls in "On My Way to You", "Dear Rodeo", "Husbands and Wives" (the Brooks & Dunn cover Johnson recorded as a duet with Reba McEntire) and the deeper Human and Leather album material.

"The Painter" — the love song Johnson wrote for his wife Brandi — lands roughly a third of the way through and is the first big phone-light singalong of the night, sung back at him by the entire arena with the kind of attentiveness that Texas crowds reserve for songs about marriages that actually work. The mid-set acoustic block typically includes "Dear Rodeo" — the Reba-duet rodeo retirement song that won the 2021 ACM Music Event of the Year — with one of Johnson's daughters occasionally walking out for a verse on the homecoming Texas dates, plus the dance-hall throwback "With You I Am" and the Leather title track stripped to acoustic.

"Human" anchors the back-half hit run with the four-on-the-floor production drop; "Long Haired Country Boy" (the Charlie Daniels cover Johnson has played at every show since the prison-guard days) gets the back-half cover-set slot. "'Til You Can't" — the song that flipped the catalogue from regional Texas-country headliner to CMA Song of the Year — closes the night more often than any other; the band stretches the last chorus to thirty seconds of arena singing back at Johnson loud enough to make the room shake.

Encore is typically a single track — "Dance Her Home" or the "Long Haired Country Boy" cover — though Johnson occasionally rolls a George Strait, Garth Brooks or Merle Haggard cover into the back half depending on the city. Check setlist.fm after the first night of any new Leather Tour leg for the current run order; fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of last call.

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