Overview
- The announcement, which took place Saturday at Johannes Oerding’s Volksparkstadion show, unveiled the album 'Nashville' due on 2 October 2026 and premiered the first single set for release on 26 June 2026.
- The record was tracked in Nashville’s Blackbird Studio with Nashville session musicians, producing eleven duet tracks recorded in about five days with an emphasis on live takes and a deliberately unpolished sound.
- The collaboration will be supported by an eleven‑stop arena tour beginning in mid‑April 2027 in Oberhausen and including major German venues such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Hannover and Stuttgart.
- Peter Maffay, who announced his retirement from touring in 2024, has agreed to suspend that retirement to perform the tour, and presales are already running with official ticket sales scheduled through platforms such as Eventim in late June.
- The project builds on a friendship and musical work dating back to 2017 and pairs Maffay’s Deutschrock legacy with Oerding’s pop sensibility, bringing Americana, country and blues influences to a German‑language duet album that may broaden both artists’ live and radio audiences.