Lyman expands on Country Tour plans

Kevin Lyman, founder of the Warped Tour, recently unveiled some reasoning behind expanding his repertoire to include 2010 country tour, dubbed "Round-Up".

I worked on Down From The Mountain: Oh Brother, the soundtrack and I did a tour around that. I met all these bluegrass people who were basically punkers from the appellations. They don't get radio; they don't get a lot of stuff.

It was just a natural thing. A lot of people who work on my tours are from Nashville or their families are in country music. I think there's a lot of country artists with the same mentality of Warped Tour artists back in 1995. Now there's a lot of people out there touring and working hard and maybe I can pull a bunch of those artists together and get them to work together to play some bigger shows.

You can find the rest of the interview here.

As reported earlier, the tour will go out in summer 2010.