Jimmie Allen Provides a Preview of His Tour with Carrie Underwood

• Carrie Underwood and Jimmie Allen are prepared to tour in this summer.
• The pair will perform songs from their discography for her upcoming Denim & Rhinestones tour.
• In 2011, Allen appeared on season 10 of American Idol.

Jimmie Allen, who will accompany his fellow country singer on her upcoming Denim & Rhinestones tour, he is going to perform all songs from his discography live.

He said to co-hosts Justin Sylvester and Loni Love, “I feel like with Carrie’s audience, I’ll be able to do my country stuff, my more pop-leaning stuff, my more Christian-leaning music,” added, “I feel like I can be myself in its entirety musically without feeling like, ‘You know what? Maybe we should do this,’ even though I don’t ever do that.

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He added, “A lot of times, if you’re in a certain place, you can kind of creep into your mind like, ‘Well, maybe I should change and do this.’ This is the first time I’ve never even had to think about changing.”

Allen will undoubtedly perform songs off his upcoming June 24 release, Tulip Drive, his third studio album, including the tune “On My Way,” a collaboration with Jennifer Lopez, an earlier American Idol judge. In 2011, Allen made an appearance on season 10 of the popular competition series.

Allen chuckled, “It’s so crazy,” and then stated, “My friend that works with her hit me up, was like, ‘Yo, we’re trying to remake a J.Lo song into a duet. You wanna do it?’ I was like, ‘Duh. What kind of question is that? I’m in, bro.’ I recorded the next day and sent it back to them.”

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The street name of his grandmother’s house served as the inspiration for the album title Tulip Drive, which also includes a collaboration with CeeLo Green and T-Pain.  According to Allen, the album completes a trilogy that “talk about where I was between the ages of five through freshman year of college.”

“Every song on here is like a direct reflection that I wrote of something in my life,” he shared. “And even songs I didn’t write, I had to find songs that really tied into actual moments. So, there’s songs about relationships from high school, college, my mental disorder, songs about my dad, dreams I had then, dreams I have now. Kind of wanted to just throw it all out there before this next phase of music.”