in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/b><\/a>, and he sounds set on slowing things down a bit for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was earlier this year, probably around September,\u201d he told Rolling Stone about when he began leaning toward the decision. \u201cI was elk hunting, and I just really didn\u2019t want to go back. I wanted to stay out in Montana. Throughout the fall, I kept doing shows, but I was like, \u2018This is not right. I\u2019m not excited to get onstage anymore.\u2019 Everything felt wrong. So, I had a conversation with management and my agent, and it was just like, \u2018Wow, we\u2019re really going to do this. I\u2019m going to step away until I feel like I want to do it again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
While he announced the move away from touring, he told Rolling Stone that none of his scheduled shows are being cancelled. He also said he isn\u2019t taking a break from music.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a break from touring,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll probably never tour like I did again. And financially, that is not your best decision, because if you\u2019re doing 80 shows over one eyar, you\u2019re not doing it because you\u2019re making a million dollars a night, not for me anyway. You\u2019re doing it because it\u2019s a business. You got to cover your expenses. So, I\u2019ll never do that again. But creatively, I\u2019m planning on writing my ass off. There won\u2019t be an album this year, I know that. But I\u2019m really looking forward to slowing down, seeing what we can create.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rice announced that he was stepping away from touring on social media in early January. <\/p>\n
\u201cAlright everybody, I wasn\u2019t sure whether I was gonna talk about this or not but here we are,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019ve been touring for 13 years and I\u2019ve lived a dream far greater than I could\u2019ve ever expected. This isn\u2019t a goodbye thing or anything like that to be clear upfront, although it may feel like that, but I\u2019m exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been able to be myself on stage in quite a while and really enjoy music and why I got into it in the first place,\u201d he continued. \u201cI love songs, I love living them, hearing stories from other people, and figuring out how to put that life into music. After 13 years it\u2019s finally beat me up to the point where I need to step away for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rice said he needed to \u201cgo live life so that I have more real experiences to write down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t be touring this year and it wasn\u2019t even really a decision, it was something I know that I just have to do for myself,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of artists do this all the time, but it\u2019s new for me so it\u2019s kind of a big deal in my life. To my band and crew, I love y\u2019all. You\u2019ve seen me at my worst yet you still love me back like I\u2019ve lived my best. I hope we can all get together in the coming years and get back to enjoying life on the road again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rice said he loved the fans who have followed him on his journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have truly made a dream of mine come true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Rice, a native of Ormond Beach, Florida, began his career in 2010. Aside from his country music stardom, he is a former linebacker for the North Carolina Tar Heels and was a NASCAR pit crew member for Hendrick Motorsports.<\/p>\n
He also appeared on \u201cSurvivor: Nicaragua.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music star Chase Rice stunned fans when he announced earlier this month that he was stepping away from touring. The 40-year-old recently opened up more on the decision in an interview with Rolling Stone, and he sounds set on slowing things down a bit for the rest of his career. \u201cIt was earlier this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237545","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=2237545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237546,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237545\/revisions\/2237546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}