CURRENT SINGLE: “Lil Bit”
Florida Georgia Line’s I Love My Country Tour kicks off in late September, but the guys are already preparing to hit the road. Tyler Hubbard says, “Considering it’s been, I don’t know, a year and a half since we’ve played any shows or toured, I mean yeah, it’s definitely a muscle that we haven’t used and it’s somethin’ that we’re excited to get back out and use. But with that, does come a little pre-tour prep, some training if you will.”
Tyler once posted a video of Instagram of him on a rowing machine, rowing hard and singing an FGL song like he would during a live show, because singing while you’re standing still or sitting down is a whole lot different than singing during one of FGL’s high-energy shows. “It takes quite a bit of energy to run around for an hour and a half and be able to maintain breath and be able to sing and do that night after night,” Tyler says. “So, somethin’ that’s gonna take us a few weeks to get back but we have been in the gym. We have been workin’ on our cardio.”
Besides breath control and making sure they’re in touring shape, Tyler says probably the biggest challenge, and why they have already started prepping for the tour is because they have to make sure they remember all the lyrics to all their songs. With as many hits as Florida Georgia Line has, and not having performed those songs live for pretty much the last year and a half, it’s understandable that they may have forgotten some of the words. But Tyler says, “We’ve been rehearsin’ that with the band, kind of preparin’ for tour and really makin’ sure that we feel tight, that our muscle memory is back, that we can remember lyrics, that we can maintain our breath.”
FGL’s Life Rolls on Tour kicks off on September 24th in Atlanta, Georgia, with special guests Russell Dickerson, Lauren Alaina and Redferrin.
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Tyler Hubbard – “Considering it’s been, I don’t know, a year and a half since we’ve played any shows or toured, I mean yeah, it’s definitely a muscle that we haven’t used and it’s somethin’ that we’re excited to get back out and use. But with that, does come a little pre-tour prep, some training if you will. It takes quite a bit of energy to run around for an hour and a half and be able to maintain breath and be able to sing and do that night after night. So, somethin’ that’s gonna take us a few weeks to get back but we have been in the gym. We have been workin’ on our cardio. More than that though is really just rememberin’ all the lyrics. So, we’ve been rehearsin’ that with the band, kind of preparin’ for tour and really makin’ sure that we feel tight, that our muscle memory is back, that we can remember lyrics, that we can maintain our breath.”