A year ago Riley Green spent the National Finals Rodeo's closing weekend at Resorts World, opened with Different 'Round Here and closed with Dixieland Delight, an Alabama cover from a kid who grew up in Jacksonville, Alabama. Since then he has taken home three CMA Awards for you look like you love me with Ella Langley and released his fourth album, That's Just Me. He is back at the same theater for two NFR-week nights: Sunday, December 6, and Thursday, December 10.
Riley Green at Resorts World Theatre
Riley Green brings his Cowboy As It Gets Tour, the biggest headlining run of his career, to the 4,850-seat Resorts World Theatre. It is a big room by Vegas theater standards and a small one compared with the arenas he has been playing.
Where: Resorts World Theatre, Resorts World Las Vegas, north Strip. When: two nights, December 6 and 10, 2026. Best for: rodeo fans and anyone who knows every word of I Wish Grandpas Never Died.
What Riley Green played last December
His December 12, 2025 show at the same theater ran 21 songs. After Different 'Round Here he played If It Wasn't for Trucks, Damn Good Day to Leave and Smoke, then a run of covers and favorites: Where Corn Don't Grow, In Color, Georgia Time, Rather Be, you look like you love me, Make It Rain, There Was This Girl and Hell of a Way to Go. The back half went Should've Been a Cowboy, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, Jesus Saves, Don't Mind If I Do, Change My Mind and Worst Way, with I Wish Grandpas Never Died and Dixieland Delight as the encore.
This year's set has a new record to draw from. That's Just Me came out on September 18 with 19 tracks, among them the singles Think As You Drunk and the title song.
Jacksonville, Alabama, in the songs
Green played quarterback at Jacksonville State before music, and the songs still sound like the town: trucks, church, grandparents and Saturday nights. He has won five ACM Awards and four CMA Awards, and the covers in his set, Toby Keith, Jamey Johnson, Alabama, are a road map to the kind of country he grew up on.
More country nights in NFR week
The week is full of them. The Red Clay Strays close their tour at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday, December 5, and Thomas Rhett takes The Colosseum for the rodeo's closing nights. Every other show of the ten days is in our NFR concerts guide, night by night.
