{"id":80665,"date":"2021-05-10T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=80665"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:35:27","slug":"old-dominion-ready-to-get-back-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/old-dominion-ready-to-get-back-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Dominion Ready To Get Back On The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wqLTu-VUW4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The pandemic caused Old Dominion members to have some anxiety about the future of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>The guys have had chart-topping hits and taken home several awards, but lead singer Matthew Ramsey said, when lockdown kicked in, their barometers for success were abruptly taken away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was no daily reminder that we were doing good, you know? Those shows where people were buying tickets and T-shirts and singing the songs, and that&#8217;s how we really gauged our success so it was like, &#8216;Man, are we even a band anymore?&#8217; (laughs) It just felt so strange. I remember I was taking a walk and this car pulls a u-turn and pulls up to me and she&#8217;s like, &#8216;What are you doing? You&#8217;re just out here taking a walk?&#8217; (laughs) And I just completely forgot that I was maybe a recognizable person. That just hadn&#8217;t happened in a really long time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matthew and his bandmates are back together and gearing up for the Band Behind The Curtain Tour which kicks off later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The guys just announced the trek on Tuesday, May 4th on social media.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COdI1FahYwT\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pandemic caused Old Dominion members to have some anxiety about the future of their careers.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":80672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[5876,2818,1776],"class_list":["post-80665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-band-behind-the-curtain-tour","tag-matthew-ramsey","tag-old-dominion"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 16:26:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/old-dominion-ready-to-get-back-on-the-road\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}