Tyler Braden Talks New Music, International Touring and Entering His Next Chapter [Exclusive]

Tyler Braden is entering an exciting new chapter in his career, and there’s no shortage of momentum behind him. With a new project on the horizon and a packed international touring schedule ahead, Braden is taking his music to audiences around the world while continuing to grow as an artist.

Speaking with Country Now, Braden opened up about preparing for his first-ever headline run across Canada, as well as upcoming shows in Australia, the UK and Europe. The singer will first head to Australia this fall for the Wild At Heart Tour before launching his seven-date The Days Of Gold Tour in Canada on October 27 in Toronto. He’ll then kick off 2027 with a run of shows across the UK and Europe beginning in February.

Braden reflected on some of his favorite moments on the road so far this year, including hearing thousands of fans sing his songs back to him, and shared how he approaches changing up his setlist as he prepares to bring his show to different audiences around the world.

Fans have already received three new songs from Braden in 2026: “Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, “My Americana” and “Dry County.” With another new release titled “Quick Fix” available now, he shares he is one step closer to sharing a bigger project. The rising country act teased what to expect from his next record and explained how he’s allowing the songs to naturally shape the direction of the music while continuing to build on the sound he’s developed over the years.

And, of course, he shared his excitement for his upcoming rooftop show at 27Live Powered by Country Now and what makes an intimate performance so special to him. The show will take place above downtown Nashville on August 18. RSVP for free HERE.

Keep reading to hear Tyler Braden talk about his upcoming tours, new music and what’s next in this exciting chapter of his career.

We are so excited to have you perform at the rooftop of the Westin Nashville for 27Live Powered by Country Now. What do you enjoy most about performing in a more intimate setting where you can really interact with the fans?

I do love stuff like that when we can just kind of have this closed setting that doesn’t feel. ..It feels more approachable and it feels like they’re just there kind of hanging out with you. I think that’s really cool for the fans. And it’s definitely cool to be able to literally just talk, not just with the person right in front of you. 

Can we expect to hear some new music from you that night? 

We’ve got a lot of new stuff coming over the next six, eight months, so we’ll probably throw in a few of those unreleased songs. Obviously some stuff that’ll be new as of this year or the last couple months. And then we’ve got a song coming out that weekend on the 21st, so right after the show. So we’ll be playing that one for sure. 

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You have a busy second half of the year, starting with the Canadian leg of the Days of Gold Tour this October. How does it feel to be heading out in your first ever headline run across the country? 

The tour we had this year was amazing with Devil And a Prayer Tour. That was our first time ever touring an album. As we go into these tours or we get to go into other countries and do those, it’s amazing and scary at the same time. We’re excited to see if people in another country are singing along to different songs or how it’s different and how they act because we played festivals a lot and we’ve done the odd headliner here and there, but just seeing how the whole experience goes is going to be really fun. 

Fans can also catch you at shows across Australia, the UK and Europe. How does it feel to know that your music has reached a global audience?

I mean, it’s exciting. And it is cool because obviously the radio and the DSPs, the streaming networks and all, they push different songs. Different songs get big in different parts of the world. So that’s exciting to see the songs they’re excited for when I’m getting messages on social media. They’re asking for different songs than other areas of the world. That’s really cool to kind of just be able to take a different type of show there…It’s really exciting and you don’t know what to expect. Australia, they put us in rooms, pretty big rooms, that I was very nervous for. Brisbane, the city we’ve been to before for a festival, it sold out in like 48 hours, like 1500 people. It was pretty exciting. I know they’re going to go crazy. The festivals there are amazing. Same for the UK. We’ve had a lot of great ticket sales there and we’ve played a lot of festivals over there. It’s really fun to take our own show. 

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How often are you switching up your set list for these different audiences?

We build our set kind of in sections, maybe like two to four song sections and we’ll move sections around. It makes for a comfort on stage at the same time as being able to mix it up from time to time. And we’re definitely playing some new stuff probably starting in Australia, just when we’ve got a little bit of time off between now and then to try to change stuff up. That’s the hardest part is it takes time off to be able to change a lot of it. But it’s always fun to switch it up a little bit from time to time. 

What would you say has been one of your favorites moments in the shows you’ve had so far this year?

Just hearing the singalongs. “God & Guns N’ Roses” has been a really big one for us for hearing the crowd sing back. Specifically in Australia, we played a festival in Australia in March. And so we got to play the main stage. But the night before we played main stage, we played an after party for the first day’s Main Stage. And it was around 4,000 people inside this big tent. And they were so loud singing the songs back. And obviously, like I said, you don’t know what to expect going that far from home. That’s a moment that’s lived with me for a long time. 

You posted a cover of ROLE MODEL’s viral hit “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out” that really resonated with fans online. What was it like getting to put your own spin on it?

My wife listens to ROLE MODEL, so I got to hear that song a lot in the car and I really liked it. But as a songwriter, I’ve always loved the approach of taking sad lyrics and putting them to unhappy Sound Or vice versa. And that song really does that. I mean, you listen to that song, this guy’s nervous about rejection or like being led on.  And putting that sound to a sound that actually fits it or fits the emotions of the lyrics was a fun process. 

You’ve released several new songs this year already. Are these leading up to a bigger project?

It definitely is. That is the goal for sure. We’re hoping for something next year. Like I said, we’ve got another song called “Quick Fix” coming out August 21st. It’s actually been funny, you talk about going overseas and the new music, “Dry County” that came out in January, I’ve learned doing interviews for the shows overseas that obviously they don’t know what a county is for one thing. When we look at the county, they don’t know what a dry county is. So that’s confusing. And in Australia, the people that I interviewed with have never heard the term “horseshoes and hand grenades.” I put out three songs this year and two of them don’t make any sense, but it’s been funny just to just kind of be able to explain these things. Once you hear it, it’s like a light bulb moment.

What can you share about “Quick Fix”?

It’s a subject matter that I haven’t done a whole lot of songs about, kind of like a bar meeting situation, which “God & Guns N’ Roses” kind of is, but just from a different angle. And it’s an approach that I’m excited to take. It’s like guy meets a girl in a bar, but it’s more of a self-aware thing. “If I’m bugging you, kind of let me know.” And you’ll hear that in the lyric side. But I think it’s a fun song. We’ve been playing it live all year long. So it’s been really fun live. It’s very upbeat. And so I’m excited for people to hear it.

Do you have a vision for this next project or are you letting the songs dictate the direction it will go in?

I have a sound that we’re always going for, like writing, it develops over the years and we definitely have a sound that we go for last couple years of writing. And some of it showed up on our last album, Devil And A Prayer. But as for subject matter and the album as a whole in that vein, that one kind of develops slowly. As you get more songs, you start to find where the connections are between the songs and lean into that. And just kind of allow it to develop organically. At least that’s the way I do it.

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