Zach Bryan began his With Heaven On Tour in a big way Saturday (3/7) at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
The 50,000+ in attendance heard 32 songs, 13 from the new album.
Seven of the new cuts were live debuts: "DeAnn’s Denim," "If They Come Lookin'," "Rivers and Creeks," "Runny Eggs," "Santa Fe," "Skin," and "Slicked Back."
The 29-year-old Grammy winner is touring with a 20-piece band that includes J.R. Carroll (guitar, vocals), Read Connolly (guitar), Lucas Ruge-Jones (bass), Steve Clark (drums), Jake Weinberg (drums, percussion), Nathaniel Smith (pedal steel guitar), Ryan Hadlock (keys, organ), Keenan O’Meara (guitar, vocals), Fey Fili (keys, vocals), Gabriella Rose (vocals, guitar), Evan Honer (guitar, vocals), and Matt Maeson (guitar, vocals).
It's all in support of the Japanese-born Oklahoman's sixth studio album which debuted at #1 in January.
Kicking off a tour with a huge band in a giant football stadium might be daunting for some artists, but not for Bryan.
You may recall last fall he set a record for the largest ticketed concert in the US, when over 113,000 filled the Big House at the University of Michigan to hear him play.
A couple of months ago Bryan explained how the record was put together and what motivated him to make it.
"With Heaven on Top is a collection of songs my band and me recorded across three different houses in Oklahoma this winter. The cool air kept us all inside staggering around each live take. I pray these all end up meaning as much to others as they mean to me. Songs are living things, they want to be free and these free’d me," he began.
"I was in the throes for a long time and the simple statement of heaven being above me got me through a lot," he continued.
"Not my job to convince anyone of anything. I’m not trying to sell music. Music to me is God’s gift and it needs no competition or commentary.
"The last ten years I’ve tried my best to share the human experience. I feel like I’ve lived all my 20’s out on a very large, very lucky and very unfair stage but this one felt different," he wrote.
"This one felt like recording music with my best friends again."
One of the more anticipated of the new songs Bryan played was "Bad News," a bleak anti-ICE tune that the former Homeland Security Secretary denounced it as being disrespectful.
It's a risky move for a young country star to speak out about certain politics, but not only were the fans at the football stadium positive about the song, but many of them sang every word loudly.
Didn’t wake up dead or in jail
Some out-of-town boys been giving us hell
I got some bad news
The fading of the red, white and blue
One fan in attendance wrote a comment on the YouTube video of the song at the stadium, how the performance got him emotional.
"I was there that night! I almost cried when he played this song because I finally realized I was not alone. There were thousands of American people screaming the lyrics along with me with just as much anger, hurt, and frustration with the state of the world. I have been feeling scared and so alone but I finally realized that there is so many people grieving the fading of the red, white and blue, just as I am," he wrote.
It was just the second time the singer has performed the song. It got its live debut last month at the Madden Bowl.
He also live debuted "Appetite" and "Say Why" at the Super Bowl Week event at San Francisco's Chase Center.
Catch the outlaw country star on a tour that will be globetrotting from one giant stadium. It runs through October 10th in Alabama.
Get your tickets on Zach's website.
With Heaven On Tour 2026
3/14 Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL
3/21 Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
3/28 Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA
4/03-4/04 H.A. Chapman Stadium, Tulsa, OK
4/11 L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, Louisville, KY
4/18 Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC
4/25 Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE
5/02 Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field, Starkville, MS
5/09 Huntington Bank Field, Cleveland, OH
5/27 Donostia Arena, San Sebastián, Spain
5/31 Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany
6/03 Unity Arena, Oslo, Norway
6/06 Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark
6/09 Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands
6/12 Anfield, Liverpool, UK
6/14 Scottish Gas Murrayfield, Edinburgh, UK
6/16-6/17 Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, UK
6/20-6/21 Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, Ireland
6/23-6/24 Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK
7/25 Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR
7/31-8/01 Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, CA
8/07 Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT
8/13-8/14 Empower Field at Mile High, Denver, CO
8/22 AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
9/05 State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ
9/18-9/19 The Woodlands, Dover, DE
9/21-9/22 Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
10/02-10/03 Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
10/10 Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL
