Rice has announced the initial dates for the College Days, Country Nights: The Chase Rice Back to College Tour which is scheduled to kick off on April 14th at the Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla.

The country music stars plans to include some of his new music into the set of the upcoming he tour. He had this to say, "We wanted to take our time with this new album and I want to put the good, the bad and all the grit in between into these songs.

"The fans in a lot of these cities have been there for me since day one, so I'm looking forward to playing them some new music live and bringing them along on the next step of our journey."

He digitally released the song "Whisper" on February 5th. The track is the first single from his forthcoming album and is set to hit country radio on February 29th.