3 Doors Down returning to Tuscaloosa Amphitheater with Candlebox

Mark Hughes Cobb, The Tuscaloosa News
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Mississippi-born rock band 3 Doors Down will return to the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater for the first time since 2011, when it joins Candlebox for an 8 p.m. Aug. 5 show, according to a release from Birmingham-based booking agent Red Mountain Entertainment.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, for $99.50, $79.50, $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50, plus fees, through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amphitheater box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway.

3 Doors Down will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Aug. 5, with Candlebox. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
3 Doors Down will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Aug. 5, with Candlebox. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

3 Doors Down first topped the charts with its 2000 single "Kryptonite." The band's other charting hits include "Loser," "Duck and Run," "Be Like That," "When I'm Gone," "Here Without You," "Let Me Go," "Behind Those Eyes" and "It's Not My Time."

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After a series of tumultuous events, including a DUI that drove out one band member, a conviction on vehicular homicide that sent another to jail, and the death by overdose of Matt Roberts in 2016 (though he'd left the band in 2012), the sole original member is singer Brad Arnold, though guitarist Chris Henderson has been with 3 Doors Down since 1998. On this tour, the band will play its sophomore album "Away from the Sun" in its entirety, along with hits from other albums.

Seattle-born Candlebox will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Aug. 5, with 3 Doors Down. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
Seattle-born Candlebox will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Aug. 5, with 3 Doors Down. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Seattle's Candlebox released a self-titled debut in 1993 that sold four times platinum. Charting singles include "Change," "You," "Far Behind," "Cover Me" and "It's Alright." After several lineup changes, breaking up by 2000, and reforming in 2008, singer Kevin Martin is the sole original member still in the band. Candlebox's most recent LP is the 2021 "Wolves."

Here's a look at other shows scheduled at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater:

  • April 13: Lauren Daigle with Andrew Ripp

  • May 12: Hank Williams Jr. with Old Crow Medicine Show

  • May 28: Flashback Funk Fest with Morris Day and the Time, the Zapp Band, Con Funk Shun and Atlantic Starr

  • June 28: Barenaked Ladies with Five for Fighting and Del Amitri

  • Aug. 6: Jason Aldean with Mitchell Tenpenny, Corey Kent and Dee Jay Silver

  • Sept. 8: Parker McCollum with Jackson Dean

For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.

Reach Mark Hughes Cobb at mark.cobb@tuscaloosanews.com.

This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: 3 Doors Down, Candlebox to play Tuscaloosa Amphitheater this summer