SURPRISE ANNOUNCE MADE BY CO-FOUNDER MIRANDA LAMBERT AT TONIGHT’S MUTTNATION MUSIC FOR MUTTS BENEFIT CONCERT IN NASHVILLE
NEW WORTHINGTON / LAMBERT DUET “HELLO SHITTY DAY” ARRIVES TO ACCLAIM
NASHVILLE, TENN. / AUSTIN, TEXAS – Big Loud Texas’ second-ever signing was announced this evening from the Ascend stage in Nashville by Texas-born superstar and label co-founder Miranda Lambert at her inaugural MuttNation Music for Mutts benefit concert: Jake Worthington. Billboard dubs Worthington a “hard-country singer” and Wide Open Country raves the La Porte, Texas-native “is poised to become a leader in traditional Texas country.”
“I’m really proud to say, I get to announce this from stage tonight,” Lambert started. “I’m a co-founder of a new label called Big Loud Texas, and our sole job is to keep the outlaw movement going and to keep the great stuff from the great state of Texas out there for the people. And as of last week, we got one of my favorite artists of all time on our label. I want y’all to welcome back to the stage my friend Jake Worthington! Did y’all hear him earlier? He is country as a biscuit, and I love it!”
“I’ve been both Big Loud and Texas through and true for a while now, so it sure feels good to make it official like this,” Worthington adds.
Earlier this month in an interview with Texas Monthly, Worthington doubled down about his new label home: “It’s really cool to see a label go up in Austin. I think it’s even cooler that somebody like Miranda and Jon are on the forefront of that. . . . I hear them old glory days stories [about] when there used to be some players in the game—labels in Texas. It’s really great for our music. It’s going to give a lot of songwriters and singers a new avenue. And it’s great for the state of Texas.”
“We are so glad to welcome Jake Worthington to Big Loud Texas!” VP of Big Loud Texas Brendon Anthony says. “Jake is 100% country through and through, and we could not be more excited to have him on board!”
“No words can describe my excitement of having Jake Worthington on the Big Loud Texas team. Every time I hear him sing, I’m reminded of why I fell in love with country music in the first place,” Big Loud Texas Co-Founder and President of A&R Jon Randall shares. “Grab a six pack and hang on, it’s about to get real.”
Already getting to work, Worthington and Lambert released down-on-your-luck duet “Hello Shitty Day” just over a week ago to high praise. Whiskey Riff says the steel-soaked lament is “a honky tonk classic,” and PEOPLE calls it “a major country music collaboration.”
EARLY ACCLAIM FOR “HELLO SHITTY DAY”
“This collaboration with Lambert is another milestone in a banner year for Worthington” – Cowgirl Magazine
” ‘Hello Shitty Day’…finds both Texans opining on their bad luck as their harmonies spin and dip in perfect time around a dusty ballroom floor.” – Holler
“harmonizing lamentations on the good and bad we all face in day-to-day life, welcoming both triumphs and tribulations in the process.” – PEOPLE
“sounds like a lost track from the Red Headed Stranger, with Lambert adding an echoey ‘hello, hello’ that evokes Willie’s ‘Hello Walls.’” – Texas Monthly
“gorgeous and classic, and Miranda and Jake sound beautiful together…it’s country as hell.” – Whiskey Riff
Tomorrow, Worthington heads west to bring his honky-tonk tendencies to Utah’s RedWest Fest, before a run of East Coast dates with Kameron Marlowe next weekend. He was just announced on select support dates of Riley Green‘s 2025 Damn Country Music Tour and will open a can’t-miss evening at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium for fellow traditionalist Zach Top in February.
JAKE WORTHINGTON TOUR DATES
10/6 – Salt Lake City, Utah – RedWest Fest
10/10 – Philadelphia, Penn. – Theatre of Living Arts *
10/11 – Sayreville, N.J. – Starland Ballroom *
10/12 – Boston, Mass. – RoadRunner *
10/13 – New York, N.Y. – Webster Hall *
12/6 – Spring, Texas – Rowdy’s Dancehall
12/8 – Plano, Texas – Love and War
1/6 -11/25 – Steamboat Springs, Colo. – The Music Fest
2/28/25 – Nashville, Tenn. – Ryman Auditorium +
3/27/25 – Abbotsford, B.C. – Abbotsford Centre ^
3/28/25 – Kelowna, B.C. – Prospera Place ^
3/30/25 – Regina, Sask. – The Brandt Centre ^
4/3/25 – Kingston, Ont. – Slush Puppie Place ^
4/4/25 – Toronto, Ont. – Coca-Cola Coliseum ^
4/5/25 – London, Ont. – Budweiser Gardens ^
* supporting Kameron Marlowe
+ supporting Zach Top
^ supporting Riley Green
ABOUT JAKE WORTHINGTON
For Big Loud Texas traditionalist Jake Worthington, country music is engrained in his DNA. The La Porte, Texas native was raised on his grandfather’s porch performances of Ray Price, Merle Haggard, and George Jones, and soon picked up his own Gibson acoustic to realize the breadth of his soon-to-be-classic, wide, and wild voice. Now, Worthington breathes fresh life into dance halls, beer joints, and ballrooms from Texas to Tennessee with his 13-song, self-penned debut, Jake Worthington, and just-released Miranda Lambert collaboration “Hello Shitty Day.” Captivating the masses with his honky-tonk stylings, the singer-songwriter has brought two-step anthems to venues across the country, opening for Lambert, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green, Pat Green, Hank Williams Jr., ERNEST, Ian Munsick, and more. Worthington is also a sought-after duet partner across the Nashville landscape, including guest spots on HIXTAPE: Vol. 3: DIFFTAPE with Reba McEntire on “Is It Cold In Here,” HIXTAPE: Vol. 2 with Ronnie Dunn and Jake Owen on “Jonesin’,” Ronnie Dunn’s 2022 album 100 Proof Neon on “Honky Tonk Town,” Brooks and Dunn’s forthcoming Reboot II on “I’ll Never Forgive My Heart,” and ERNEST’s 2023 extension FLOWER SHOPS (THE ALBUM): Two Dozen Roses on “Heartache In My 100 Proof.” “I believe in country music as much as I believe in my next breath,” Worthington declares, and “blame it on my raising, but I think there ought to be room for country in country music.”
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ABOUT BIG LOUD TEXAS
Founded in 2023 by Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall in partnership with Big Loud Records, Big Loud Texas is the newest imprint within the Big Loud conglomerate, adding to the music company’s head-turning success story. Signing flagship artist Dylan Gossett alongside Mercury Records and country traditionalist Jake Worthington, the imprint aims to identify, cultivate, and promote Texas musicians on a global scale. Lambert and Randall, alongside the Big Loud Records team, are directly involved with signing and developing artists for the Big Loud Texas roster, where Randall serves as President of A&R while also contributing his expertise as a producer.
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