Mitchell Tenpenny

2565 American Way,Grand Junction CO 81501

22 January, 2022

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Grand Junction grab your tickets while they last, Mitchell Tenpenny is set to make his Warehouse debut on Jan. 22! Tickets on sale NOW !! In 2017, he played a set during CMA Music Fest that attracted the attention of Sony Music Nashville. Label executives in the audience were intrigued by fans’ response to his “Alcohol You Later.” Within two weeks, they were in serious negotiations for the singer’s first major-label record deal. Sony was so sure of Tenpenny’s talent that they sent him on a radio tour to promote his debut single “Drunk Me” before the deal was finalized. “It was crazy,” Tenpenny said of the chain of events. “You just never know who is in the crowd. The faith and trust that they had in me for them to just say, ‘Hey, we’ll get it all figured out, but we gotta go,’ was pretty awesome. I didn’t have a lot of time to think about it. It was like, ‘I’m going to be an artist.'” Sony Music Nashville revealed Tenpenny’s signing – a joint venture between Tenpenny’s Riser House and Columbia Nashville – in early 2018. Powered by the success of “Drunk Me,” Tenpenny’s first album, “Telling All My Secrets,” came out at the end of the year and earned him the best first-week showing for any major label country debut LP of 2018. “Drunk Me” was praised by the New York Times as one of the best songs of 2018, made history by achieving the highest entry for a new artist on Nielsen’s On Demand Audio Core Country Streaming chart, and has since amassed more than 500 million streams. In 2019, he kept his momentum and earned a New Male Artist of the Year nomination at the ACM Awards and a nod for Breakthrough Video (“Drunk Me”) at the CMT Music Awards. He was the only country artist named one of Pandora’s 2019 Artists to Watch and was included on prestigious lists such as Music Row’s Next Big Thing and The Tennessean’s Next Nashville Stars. He didn’t intend for there to be a nearly three-year gap between projects. But, just as it did for most people, 2020 put a glitch in Tenpenny’s plans. He wanted to capitalize on the success of “Drunk Me,” keep releasing new music and log plenty of time on the road introducing it to fans. Touring is a vital part of the success of new music, and since that wasn’t possible, he had to reevaluate. He used the extra time to write songs, including many of the songs on “Midtown Diaries,” “At the End of a Bar,” and more he hopes to release later. “A lot of life has happened in three years,” he said. “I’m a different person. Some of these songs, when we’re going back and listening to stuff, you gotta make sure that you’re still in that headspace. A lot of songs that I loved back then ended up not making it because I’m just not the same person I was when I wrote it. It was writing every day for almost three years and picking eight songs out of that.” Since the pandemic prevented Tenpenny from testing new songs with audiences, he turned to TikTok to vet material for “Midtown Diaries.” “Truth About You,” the EP’s lead single, likely wouldn’t have made the project if it hadn’t gone viral on TikTok. He wrote the break-up song – a fervent, wounded mid-tempo wrapped in contemporary production – more than two years ago. He found “Truth About You” while reviewing older songs and tossed it on TikTok. Two-and-a-half million plays earned it a slot on the EP. He wrote “Truth About You” with Thomas Archer and Matt Alderman. “At that time in my life, I was like, ‘I know exactly how to write this song. I’ve lived it before,'” he said. “I’m not in that headspace anymore, but I want to write songs people can relate to and use for good. If it helps them through a break-up, that’s everything for me.” Located in the heart of the Grand Valley, Warehouse25sixty-five Kitchen + Bar is the perfect destination for classic American cuisine & Live Music.