For the better part of 15 years, Aaron Lewis has been making the argument that his country pivot was never a detour, and Give My Country Back, his sixth solo album released July 17 on Big Machine Label Group, makes that case with as much conviction as anything he has recorded in the decade-plus since. The 2026 American Tour, a 53-date run with his band The Stateliners, brings that record to Turning Stone Event Center in Verona on Saturday, December 19, at 8 p.m.
About the Show
Lewis built his first national audience as the frontman of Staind, the post-grunge band whose 2001 breakthrough Break the Cycle made him one of the defining voices of that era. His turn toward country and Americana, which began in earnest with the 2011 EP Town Line, read less like a pivot than a return: he grew up in Springfield, Vermont, shaped by his grandfather’s records, Merle Haggard and George Jones among them. The country career that followed has been substantial by any measure: two No. 1 Billboard Country Album debuts, a gold-certified No. 1 single in “Am I the Only One” (2021), and a 2022 release in Frayed at Both Ends that finished as the best-selling country album in America that year.
Give My Country Back is a 10-track set that blends honky-tonk roots with contemporary production, with accountability, resilience, faith, and patriotism as recurring subjects, co-written in part with Jeffrey Steele, Bobby Pinson, and Travis Meadows. The title track is built around a stinging acoustic guitar riff and draws directly from the Charlie Daniels and Hank Jr. tradition Lewis has never pretended to move beyond. His explanation of the record is characteristically unvarnished: “My music is my life. Every one of those songs — you’ll probably know me better than I know myself.”
Lewis performs with The Stateliners, and the live show is known for stripped-down arrangements, personal storytelling between songs, and an openness to crowd requests that makes the set harder to predict than a standard touring night. He has played Turning Stone before; this is a return engagement.
Venue & Logistics
Turning Stone Event Center, the 5,000-capacity room at Verona’s casino resort, has become a reliable anchor of the central New York concert calendar — a venue with the booking infrastructure to absorb a mid-December touring stop that most smaller regional rooms step around. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Tickets
Tickets are on sale now. TS Rewards members received early access July 16; general on-sale opened July 17, 2026 at 10 a.m. Buy tickets.