Celebrate the Heart of Country, Americana, and Roots Music!

John Foster Sold Out Baton Rouge Show in 52 Minutes and Night Two Is Already Locked In

John Foster beams under the spotlight, guitar in hand—looking every bit like the guy who just sold out Baton Rouge in under an hour. Not from that night, but you get the vibe.
Arden Lambert
by

Arden Lambert covers breaking country music news for Country Thang Daily. If it just happened in country music, Arden is on it.

Get Country Thang Daily first on GoogleGet CTD first on GoogleAdd us as a preferred source in Top StoriesAdd us as a preferred sourceAdd

The tickets were gone faster than a cold beer in a Louisiana summer.

That’s how fast 1,350 seats disappeared for John Foster’s August 2 show at The Texas Club in Baton Rouge. Fifty-two minutes. No album. No national tour. Just one name, John Foster, and a home crowd that wasn’t about to miss their chance to see the kid they’ve been claiming since his first note on American Idol.

So what do you do when your city sells you out before your morning coffee’s cold? You add another night. The Texas Club locked in a second show for August 1, and it’s already heating up just as fast.

John Foster’s only 18, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he’s moving. Just last week, he stepped into the circle at the Grand Ole Opry and dropped “Murder on Music Row” like it was his own personal warning shot. He followed it with “How Great Thou Art” and shook that sacred wood floor for all the right reasons.

He’s not singing bubblegum. He’s not trying to fit Nashville’s mold. He’s singing with conviction and showing up with something rare in the current crop—guts.

RELATED: John Foster and Breanna Nix Tease “I Told You So” Cover and Now Everyone’s Begging for the Full Song

The Addis native rolled through CMA Fest like he owned it and hasn’t taken his foot off the gas. He’s been showing up with Breanna Nix and Riley O’Neill on stage, backstage, and everywhere in between, trading harmonies on everything from Vince Gill to Randy Travis. But don’t get it twisted. Foster ain’t coasting off Idol leftovers. He’s building something that feels homegrown and loud, the kind of thing you can’t fake.

And now, he’s doing it in Baton Rouge. Twice.

August 1 brings Connor Martin and the Lauren Lee Band to open, plus a reunion moment that fans better not miss. Chase Tyler’s jumping back on stage with Foster for an encore. These two already raised hell together at Cajun Country Jam back in May, and this encore might just tear the roof clean off The Texas Club.

RELATED: John Foster and Breanna Nix Deliver a Stunning “Whiskey Lullaby” Duet on Live Stream

Tickets for night two are out now. General admission is $40.75, and VIP tickets are $137.40. But if you wait too long, you’ll be one of the poor souls reading tweets about it from your couch, wondering why you didn’t move faster.

This ain’t just another “Idol” kid chasing clout. This is Louisiana’s own, coming home with something to prove and nothing to lose.

John Foster Sold Out Baton Rouge Show in 52 Minutes and Night Two Is Already Locked In

Know someone who loves John Foster?

Pass this story along to your friends and family on Facebook.

Share on Facebook

Latest Stories

Yellowstone Baby Names Are Booming, and a Country Singer’s Character Cracked the Top 100

In 2022, for the first time ever, enough American parents named their baby boys Dutton to put the name in the national top 1,000. It came in at No. 836, ...

Tim McGraw’s Ex-Fiancee Was Standing Next to Him When He Met Faith Hill, and She Just Said So

In 1994, backstage at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Tim McGraw posed for a group photo and met a singer named Faith Hill. On the way out, the girlfriend ...

What Happened to Shania Twain? The Lost Years, Her Husband and the Voice She Made Her Own

For seven years, the woman behind Come On Over, which the Global Lyme Alliance calls the best-selling female album ever, could not yell out for her own dog. “There were ...

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s Love Story Began at a Demo Session and a Promise He Kept

In 1987, two singers still waiting on their big break were recording a demo for songwriter Kent Blazy, and both of them were married to other people. Garth Brooks had ...

Willie Nelson’s IRS Tapes Album Came From Something the Government Had Already Taken From Him

In 1990, the IRS took Willie Nelson’s homesteads in three states, padlocked his recording studio and arranged to auction off his gold records and the family piano, Grunge reported. His ...

Chris LeDoux Was Rodeo’s 1976 World Champion Before Garth Brooks Admitted He ‘Stole My Whole Act From Chris’

Chris LeDoux came into the 1976 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City as the No. 14 qualifier and left as the world champion bareback rider. According to Sports Illustrated, he ...

John Anderson, ‘Seminole Wind’ Singer and Country Music Hall of Fame Member, Dies at 71

Country Music Hall of Fame member John Anderson died Wednesday at 71. Back in the summer of 1972, the young man from Apopka, Florida, moved to Nashville, where his older ...

Who Was the Real Jolene? Dolly Parton Revealed the Woman With a ‘Terrible Crush’ on Carl Dean and Got Her ‘Revenge’

In the early years of their marriage, Carl Dean spent a lot of time at the bank. He was trying to get a loan for his asphalt paving business, and ...

George Jones Called ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ Morbid, Reportedly Bet It Would Miss No. 1

George Jones heard the song Billy Sherrill was so sure about and wanted nothing to do with it. In his autobiography, I Lived To Tell It All, he remembered exactly ...

Ella Langley Toasts ‘365 Days of Madness’ for ‘Choosin’ Texas,’ the 45-Minute Song That Outran Mariah Carey

It took Ella Langley and three co-writers 45 minutes to write “Choosin’ Texas.” A year after the song came out, she is still trying to measure what those 45 minutes ...