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A country singer tabbed as an artist to watch by Rolling Stone Country will headline the 2020 Clearwater Rodeo concert.

Riley Green will take the Main Street Stage at 10 p.m., Saturday, June 27, singing songs considered a mixture of outlaw-rebellion and traditional country music.

Singer-songwriter Tyler Rich will play at 9 p.m. Rich estimates he's written close to 100 songs during

the past year.

Nebraska's own Dylan Bloom Band will open the show, with an 8 p.m. curtain call.

Riley Green

Green, a native of Jacksonville, Alabama, grew up listening to country, bluegrass and southern gospel music.

He crafted songwriting and performance skills while spending time with Bufford Green, owner of the Golden Saw Music Hall, and Green's grandfather.

In 2018, Green released the extended play, In A Truck Right Now, which included his debut number one single, "There Was This Girl."

A follow-up single, "In Love By Now," is currently climbing the country charts.

The song is part of Green's second collection of songs on the EP Get That Man A Beer, released in June.

Green was selected as a CMT Listen Up Artist and Music Row's Next Big Thing.

In the past year, Green was selected to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry's NextStage program and made his national television debut on NBC's Today show.

His Outlaws Like Us tour included multiple sold-out stops.

He has toured with Brad Paisley World Tour and joined Jon Pardi's Heartache Medication tour this fall.

Next, he will venture on his own for his Get That Man A Beer tour.

For more information, visit RileyGreenMusic.com.

Tyler Rich

Rich, a native of Yuba City, California, said it was love at first listen when he heard The Difference, written by Rhett Atkins.

Tyler still kicks himself for not penning the tune about appreciating and showing the one you love how much they mean to you.

"My fiancée and I live in a texting relationship cause we're long distance. If I'm like, 'I'm gonna call you in two hours, love you,' she goes, 'love you? You mean I love you?' There's a difference between I love you and love you," he said, smiling. "She'll always say that to me so then when I heard "The Difference," it's like, 'Why didn't I come up with this idea? It's perfect.' I'm pumped it's the first single."

Rich's song, dubbed a SiriuxXM Highway Find, boosted Rich as a CMT Listen Up artist for 2018 and a Pandora Artist to watch.

Like Green, Rich made his national television debut on NBC's Today show, performing the Top 25 song, which has had more than 44 million streams to date.

Rich grew up in a music-loving family. At age 14, his grandmother purchased a guitar for him and an uncle taught him how to play country and heavy metal music.

Country singer Dustin Lynch watched him sing Lynch's "Mind Reader" on Instagram and invited Rich to Nashville.

Rolling Stone included Rich in 10 New Country Artists You Need to Know, calling him "the newest member of country music's radio-minded incoming class, with a homecoming king's swagger and a valedictorian's songwriting smarts."

Rich has a bachelor's degree in economics, but chose to follow music.

Rich splits time between Nashville and Los Angeles.

Find out more at TylerRich.com.

Dylan Bloom Band

Dylan Bloom joined his father, Dean, in 2009, playing country and rock in small towns across Nebraska.

He released "Strong In A Small Town" in 2012, followed by "Population 1213," in 2016.

In 2018, he ventured to Nashville to record an EP, Truck Driver.

Joining Bloom on stage are Josh Kidney, Bryan Keeling, Wes Wooten and Logan Bartels.

Ticket sales will begin later this month and will be available online,Monday, Jan. 13.

For more information, visit clearwaterrodeo.com.