By Ben Willms

Even though I have never had a particular liking for country music, I planned to make the best of seeing Gary Allan at the United Spirit Arena last Friday. I hooped and hollered with rest of the country fans even though I didn’t know a single song.

Being a stranger in land of boots and cowboys hats, I decided to put my previous impressions about country artists behind and try to see what a country concert was really like. Things were going pretty well until opener Justin Moore stopped play and took a minute to tell the crowd “a little bit about himself.”

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By MARIO TARRADELL / The Dallas Morning New

Gary Allan’s transformation from rugged country honky-tonker to super cool arena rocker is all but complete. His headlining gig Saturday night at Superpages.com Center clinched it.

Armed with a seven-man band, including two electric guitarists and a drummer that pounded the skins, Allan performed a 100-minute set for about 8,500 fans after opening stints by Justin Moore, Eli Young Band and Stoney LaRue. The tattooed singer basked in the reverb. The sound was loud, guitar-heavy and very rocking. Even the most country tunes of the evening, such as “It Would Be You” and “Songs About Rain,” were pumped up for maximum effect.

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by Pat Gallagher - The Boot

Gary Allan’s Get Off on the Pain Tour kicked off Wednesday (Oct. 14) at Chicago’s House of Blues. The country-rocker will stop in 25 cities across the country before the end of the year.

When Gary called in to Jeff Foxworthy’s country countdown show this week, he confessed to Jeff that he was calling from his back porch at home in Nashville, wearing UGG boots, Christmas pajama bottoms and a t-shirt.

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By: Alison Bonaguro
“When you get a new guitar, it’s like dancing with someone else’s wife,” Gary Allan said in the middle of his 90-minute show last night (Oct. 13) at Chicago’s House of Blues. As he introduced his new guitar to the sold-out crowd of about 1500 people, he went on to explain how he got it (drove two hours to meet some guy in a Shoney’s parking lot) and why (his guitars were crushed when a tornado struck at a show in Canada this summer).

So the fans got to meet his Gibson 1948 J-200, along with a handful of other guitars, over the course of his 20-song set. He opened with a new tune, “Get Off on the Pain,” but managed to mix things up with so many of the songs that showcase the gravel in his voice and his rock-heavy sound. (That said, the cry of the steel guitar was the biggest star of the show. Even Allan took the time to sit down and listen to CJ Udeen play at the end of “Learning How to Bend.” It was that good.)

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