HARDY PERFORMS “PSYCHO” ON “THE TONIGHT SHOW”

Story: Ralph Greco, Jr.

Last night, HARDY appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to perform “PSYCHO” from his recently released new LP, Quit!! Watch the performance here.

Released on July 12 via Big Loud Rock, Quit!! is #1 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart and, with 24,000 units, comes in at #23 on the Billboard 200, #9 on Album Sales and #5 on Current Rock Albums charts. The release week saw nationwide excitement with multiple signing events, a crowd of 29,000 watching HARDY headline Ohio’s Country Concert 24—plus 20,000 fans live-streaming the show, the debut of a live deluxe edition of Quit!! and visuals for “SOUL4SALE” featuring Fred Durst and “PSYCHO.”

Quit!! is already receiving critical acclaim, with HARDY gracing the cover of Revolver plus praise from Billboard, where critics call the album “visceral and raw” and praise HARDY’s “intense, defiant delivery,” Holler, who declare that “with heavy, swampy electric guitar riffs and in-your-face bursts of HARDY’s guttural growl, Quit!! is a 13-song rollercoaster,” and many more.

The new album, recorded with Big Loud hitmaker Joey Moi (Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Nickelback), features “SIX FEET UNDER,” “ROCKSTAR”—which hit Top 5 at rock radio and HARDY performed on “Kimmel” in May, “PSYCHO”—currently climbing at rock and alternative radio, title track “QUIT!!,”  “JIM BOB” and “HAPPY HOUR” featuring Knox, plus a collaboration with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on “GOOD GIRL PHASE.” Quit!! is HARDY’s first full album embrace of his rock sound and follows last year’s much lauded, half rock LP, the mockingbird & THE CROW, which has spawned multiple #1 singles across genres.

HARDY is currently touring the U.S. on his headline Quit!! Tour in addition to a slew of summer festival appearances, finishing with a return to his home state of Mississippi for his first ever stadium show and two back-to-back nights at Red Rocks this fall. Full routing is below.

Big Loud Records/Big Loud Rock heavy hitter HARDY—crowned “Nashville’s nü-metal king” by the Los Angeles Times—soared to new heights in 2023 with the release of his critically acclaimed half-country, half-rock sophomore album the mockingbird & THE CROW, adding to 4.6 billion career streams. The 17-track effort debuted top five all-genre on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and topped seven additional Billboard charts in its first week, including Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Album Sales.

The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. HARDY has written 15 #1 singles including his own two-times Platinum chart topper “ONE BEER” featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson, the platinum Dierks Bentley and BRELAND collaboration “Beers On Me,” game-changing two-times Platinum duet “wait in the truck” feat. Lainey Wilson and first-ever rock radio #1 “JACK.” He’s previously toured with Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Cole Swindell and more.

Written by Michael Hardy, Jacob Durrett

Written by Michael Hardy, Jacob Durrett, Blake Pendergrass

Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps

Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps

Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Jax, Tyler Hubbard

Written by Michael Hardy, Smith Ahnquist, Nick Donley, Jacob Mitchell, Cameron Montgomery, Hunter Phelps

Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hunter Phelps

Written by Michael Hardy, Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps

Written by Michael Hardy, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey

Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Fred Durst, Ryan Hurd, Ernest Keith Smith

Written by Michael Hardy, Zach Abend, Smith Ahnquist

Michael Hardy, John Byron, David Garcia, Blake Pendergrass

Written by Michael Hardy

Produced by Joey Moi, co-produced by HARDY
“QUIT!!” And “ROCKSTAR” produced by Joey Moi, co-produced by HARDY and Jacob Durrett

“JIM BOB” produced by Joey Moi, co-produced by HARDY and David Garcia

July 26—Veterans Park – Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival—Milwaukee, WI

July 27—Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre—Tinley Park, IL

August 4—Watershed Festival—George, WA

August 17—Country Thunder Alberta—Calgary, AB

August 22—Bash on the Bay—Put-in-Bay, OH

September 12—Dudy Noble Field—Starkville, MS

October 20—Red Rocks—Morrison, CO

October 21—Red Rocks—Morrison, CO

Ralph Greco, Jr. is the devilishly clever nom de plume of professional writer/musician Ralph Greco who lives in the wilds of suburban New Jersey. He is also a podcast co-host, but as everyone has a podcast these days, this fact is of very little consequence.Ralph can be reached by writing ralphiedawriter@gmail.com