One of Nashville’s most honest and versatile voices, country artist Joe Nichols will make a stop at the Brown County Music Center in Nashville, Ind., on Friday, October 24, 2025.

In a genre that has occasionally drifted away from its three chords and the truth mission statement, Joe Nichols has never wavered. “I’m a singer of country songs,” he declares. “That’s what I do.” 

The ability to connect with fans both on a record and on a stage is a rare gift, but Joe — like fellow dyed-in-the-wool trad-country vocalists George Strait, Parker McCollum, and Cody Johnson —made a career out of making it look easy. Since arriving on the scene as a teenager, he’s had a knack for finding and singing just the right song for the right moment. He did it with Number One hits “The Impossible,” “Gimmie That Girl” and “Brokenheartsville” (the latter of which he and Post Malone recently duetted live in Nashville), with the irreverent chart-topper “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” and with the back-to-back Number Ones “Sunny and 75” and “Yeah.” He does it with cover songs too: His mashup of Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive” and Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” is a fan favorite. It’s this same authentic connection that has earned Nichols over two billion audio streams to-date as well as three GRAMMY nominations, a CMA award, ACM and CMT Music Award trophies plus multiple gold and platinum-certified records. 

On his new album Honky Tonks and Country Songs, Joe continues to connect country’s traditional past with its diverse present over 11 radio-ready tracks. His second album for Quartz Hill Records, Honky Tonks and Country Songs is built around the two pillars of the title. “I’ve been in a lot of honky-tonks,” Joe says. “They’re the only places I could play for a long time, and you learn a lot about being an entertainer there, because people come wanting to hear a good song and have a good time. Country songs speak not just to those people, but to all people.” In the end, Honky Tonks and Country Songs is an album a lot like Joe himself: The country music is what you’ll notice immediately, but hang around a little and you’ll learn about the artist too. Like how he first had success while only in his 20s, why he’s fascinated by science and UFOs, and all he has yet ahead of him as an influential and current country singer. “My job is to make people feel good. And sometimes that means with fun and happy songs, and other times with sad and sorrowful truths. But the goal is always to make them feel good,” Joe says. “This album is meant to do exactly that. Everyone can find a good time in a honky-tonk and a country song.”