{"id":2167912,"date":"2025-11-20T04:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167912"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:02:56","slug":"stephen-wilson-jr-enters-new-era-with-gary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-wilson-jr-enters-new-era-with-gary\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Wilson Jr enters new era with &#8216;Gary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>The propulsive new single is available now<\/h4>\n<p>Rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. releases his new single \u201cGary\u201d via Big Loud Records, kicking off the beginning of a new era following his massively successful 2023 debut double album <em>S\u00f8n of Dad.<\/em> The track premiered last night (Tues, Nov 18th) with an electrifying performance on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> The slow-burning rocker builds to a propulsive peak, combining Wilson Jr.\u2019s grunge influences with his signature lyricism that touches upon modern life in Middle America.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Jr. is nominated for New Artist of the Year at tonight\u2019s CMA Awards, where he will also perform twice. He will play his moving rendition of \u201cStand By Me,\u201d which has earned over 20 million global on-demand streams to date, and will join fellow New Artist of the Year nominee Shaboozey for a special performance of \u201cTook A Walk,\u201d their song from the critically-acclaimed 2025 film <em>The Long Walk<\/em>, based on the novel by Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Wilson Jr. announced the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/stephen-wilson-jr-announces-2026-gary-the-torch-tour\/\">Gary The Torch Tour<\/a>, which will begin on March 6th in Columbus, OH, and includes stops in Toronto, Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, and many more. Ahead of next year\u2019s tour, Wilson Jr. will close out 2025 with his headlining debut at the Ryman Auditorium with two sold-out shows on November 23-24.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy year for Wilson Jr. who released both a deluxe edition of his widely lauded debut double album <em>S\u00f8n of Dad<\/em>, which featured his moving rendition of \u201cStand By Me\u201d that has been streamed tens of millions of times and has been included in a primetime Pampers commercial, as well as his recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/stephen-wilson-jr-announces-new-alternative-covers-ep\/\"><em>Blankets EP<\/em><\/a>, which included covers of songs by Nirvana, Temple of the Dog, The Postal Service and The Smashing Pumpkins. He also performed the National Anthem at this year\u2019s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>In between headline shows, Wilson Jr. supported Eric Church during his three-night run at Red Rocks this July, made his Newport Folk Festival debut, and joined Hardy on his Jim Bob World Tour. He will kick off 2026 with a performance at Mile 0 Festival in Key West and will join Church again for a trio of shows in February before performing at Railbird Music Festival and Under The Big Sky Festival next summer.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephen Wilson Jr. \u2013 Gary\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Zpi-Zfs5Bg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source themusicuniverse.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The propulsive new single is available now Rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. releases his new single \u201cGary\u201d via Big Loud Records, kicking off the beginning of a new era following his massively successful 2023 debut double album S\u00f8n of Dad. The track premiered last night (Tues, Nov 18th) with an electrifying performance on Jimmy Kimmel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[352621],"class_list":["post-2167912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-stephen-wilson-jr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stephen-Wilson-Jr-enters-new-era-with-Gary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167914,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167912\/revisions\/2167914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}