Sam Barber Joins Forces With Chance Peña For "Better Than The Floor"

Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter Sam Barber has joined forces with GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist and producer Chance Peña for the brand new single, “Better Than The Floor,” premiering everywhere today via Lockeland Springs/Atlantic Records HERE. Having both long admired each other’s work, the acclaimed artists finally connected, forging a powerful new collaboration.

“Better Than The Floor” is included on an extended edition of Barber’s acclaimed new EP, Music for the Soul, available now HERE. The project begins an unforgettable new chapter for Barber following the breakout success of his RIAA Gold-certified 2024 debut album, Restless Mind. Co-written by Barber and produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Ryan Hewitt (The Lumineers, Noah Kahan) and Joe Becker at studios in Nashville, TN and Bozeman, MT, the EP sees Barber chronicling how he got here and where he’s headed next on such eloquent, empathetic new songs as “Same Sad Shit”, the fame-wrestling title track, “Music for the Soul,” and the deeply moving “Home Tonight,” all available now alongside official live performance videos streaming now on YouTube HERE. First teased via the fan-first platform, Sam Barber Files, an evolving digital space offering a rare, unfiltered look into Barber’s world with unreleased content, personal visuals, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into his creative process, “Home Tonight” was met by immediate praise from such outlets as Country Swag, which hailed the track as “a thought-provoking song about love and loss. Introspective, emotional, and honest.”

Music for the Soul also includes the soul-baring anthem, “Man of the Year,” available everywhere now alongside an official live performance video streaming HERE. With its cascade of shadowy textures and darkly hypnotic guitar tones, “Man of the Year” received applause from publications such as Billboard, which named it one of “6 Must-Hear New Country Songs,” writing, “This gritty track, written solely by Barber, finds him pondering the existential anguish he sees threaded throughout world events, and emotionally embedded in people around him. “Is it in my mind or are we all just sinking?” he muses, his quietly commanding voice ringing out over sparse but captivating production, and shedding light on a generation’s anxieties and fears.”

Barber is celebrating Music for the Soul on his biggest North American headline tour to date, traveling North America through December and beyond. Tickets are extremely limited, with most shows already long sold out. Highlights of the wide-ranging run include a sold-out two-night stand at New York City’s Webster Hall (November 5-6), a one-night-only show at Hutchinson, KS’s Kansas State Fair joined by his “Indigo” duet partner Avery Anna (September 5), sold-out stops at such iconic venues as Los Angeles, CA’s The Fonda Theatre (August 22), Boston, MA’s Roadrunner (November 8), and Fort Worth, TX’s Billy Bob’s Texas (December 5), and top-billed festival appearances at Franklin, TN’s Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival (September 27), Austin, TX’s Austin City Limits Music Festival (October 10), Fort Smith, AR’s Peacemaker Festival (October 11), Salt Lake City, UT’s RedWest Country Music Festival (October 12), St. Petersburg, FL’s St. Pete Country Fest (November 21), and Noah Kahan’s Out of the Blue, set for January 8-11, 2026 in Riviera Cancún, Mexico. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit sambarbermusic.com.

Sam Barber North America Tour 2025-2026

August

15 – Forest Grove, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge (SOLD OUT)
16 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre (SOLD OUT)
18 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24 (SOLD OUT)
20 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield (LOW TICKETS)
22 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre (SOLD OUT)
23 – San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s Concerts By the Bay (SOLD OUT)
27 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater
28 – Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing (SOLD OUT)
29 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom (SOLD OUT)

September

5 – Hutchinson, KS – Kansas State Fair †
6 – Stillwater, OK – Tumbleweed Dance Hall (LOW TICKETS)
13 – Toronto, ON – The Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
14 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall (SOLD OUT)
27 – Franklin, TN – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival *

October

10 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival *
11 – Fort Smith, AR – Peacemaker Festival *
12 – Salt Lake City, UT – RedWest Country Music Festival *
31 – Asheville, NC – Asheville Yards

November

1 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz (SOLD OUT)
5 – New York, NY – Webster Hall (SOLD OUT)
6 – New York, NY – Webster Hall (SOLD OUT)
7 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
8 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner (SOLD OUT)
19 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern (LOW TICKETS)
20 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern (SOLD OUT)
21 – St. Petersburg, FL – St. Pete Country Fest *
22 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live (SOLD OUT)

December

3 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels
5 – Fort Worth, TX – Billy Bob’s Texas  (SOLD OUT)

January 2026

8-11 – Riviera Cancún, Mexico – Noah Kahan’s Out of the Blue 2026 *

* Festival Appearance
† w/ Special Guest Avery Anna

With more than 2B global streams to date, Sam Barber claimed his space in the country spotlight with last year’s arrival of Restless Mind — a 28-song tour-de-force highlighted by such smash singles as the 2x RIAA Platinum certified “Straight and Narrow,” “Better Year” (an emotionally charged anthem featured on Paramount Network’s blockbuster TV show Yellowstone), and the RIAA Platinum-certified “Indigo (Feat. Avery Anna),” the latter of which has proven a worldwide sensation with over 500M global streams, also earning Platinum certification in Australia and 2x Platinum certification in Canada while spending 14 weeks and counting among the upper reaches of country radio airplay charts nationwide and reaching the top 40 on Billboard’s overall “Hot 100.” As if all that weren’t enough, last year saw Barber’s “Tear Us Apart” among the standout tracks featured on Lockeland Springs/Atlantic Records’ RIAA Gold-certified, GRAMMY® Award-nominated blockbuster soundtrack, Twisters: The Album. Lyric videos, live performances, and more boasting over 190M combined views are streaming now on YouTube HERE.

A truly enthralling live performer, Barber marked his meteoric rise with the massive Restless Mind World Tour 2025, a marathon international run that saw sold-out headline dates and festival appearances across North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. The 22-year-old Southeast Missouri-raised singer-songwriter further celebrated his ascent with high-profile TV performances on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show and CBS Saturday Morning’s “Saturday Sessions.”

Through it all, Sam Barber has showcased a remarkable gift for raw honesty and youthful enthusiasm that has forced him into nearly every conversation about the future of country music. In the wake of Music for the Soul, that future may well belong to Barber.

Sam Barber, Music For The Soul

(Lockeland Springs/Atlantic Records)

Tracklist:

Music for the Soul
Dust and Smoke
Nowhere Fast
Same Sad Shit
Home Tonight
Ain’t Dead Yet
Man of the Year
Better than the Floor (with Chance Peña)

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