The setlist from HARDY's two sold-out nights at Red Rocks in October 2024, his first shows ever at the Colorado amphitheater, ran 20 songs and never settled into one lane. "QUIT!!" and "ROCKSTAR" up top, "wait in the truck" and "REDNECKER" in the middle, and a closer called "UNAPOLOGETICALLY COUNTRY AS HELL." Big Loud released it as his first live album in February 2025, and it includes the first official live take of "God's Country," the song he wrote that went to No. 1 for Blake Shelton.
That whiplash is pretty much the whole HARDY story. He's from Philadelphia, Mississippi, and his label credits him with writing 16 No. 1 singles, among them "Beers On Me" for Dierks Bentley and BRELAND. His own "wait in the truck" with Lainey Wilson went triple Platinum. Then Quit!!, in 2024, was a full rock record. The Los Angeles Times called him "Nashville's nü-metal king," and "JACK" became his first No. 1 at rock radio.
He swung back anyway. COUNTRY! COUNTRY!, out in September 2025, is 20 tracks about growing up in Mississippi and about the state of the genre now, and the week it came out he played Madison Square Garden for the first time. The 2026 tour named after it ran 39 dates, from Oshawa, Ontario, in February to New Braunfels, Texas, in late August, with Cameron Whitcomb, Tucker Wetmore, Mitchell Tenpenny and Muscadine Bloodline rotating through the opening slots. Metallica's James Hetfield was in the audience for his first Grand Ole Opry appearance in 2025.