Hailing from central Pennsylvania, Adam & The Armadillos took the Bryce Jordan Center’s stage at 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, yet had no problem waking the crowd up with their country setlist.

Sticking with the same opener they played last year, Adam & The Armadillos jammed out with “Me and My Kind” by Cody Johnson, embracing the Texas-themed genre.

Keeping with the theme, the band covered George Strait’s 1995 hit “Check Yes or No.” Nothing says Wild West like the King of Country Music. And staying on course with their previous year’s setlist, the Armadillos broke out the summer hit “Something Like That” by Tim McGraw.

They turned up the energy with an iconic Brooks and Dunn song, “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.” Despite a thinner crowd, their cover got some dancers “boot scootin’ boogying” all over the BJC floor.

Before counting down to the opening riff of “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” by Toby Keith, lead singer Adam Yarger introduced the song as one that everyone should know. The scattered cowboy-hat-wearing dancers certainly seemed to know the lyrics to it, and even had their own square dance for it.

Following their fifth cover song, Adam & The Armadillos rocked out to their original, “Thinkin’ Bout You” — a 2024 single about the one that got away. The song places second in their discography with 177,000 streams.

Yarger brought the crowd into it by introducing his band and leading a “We Are” chant between the two sides of the Bryce Jordan Center crowd.

Transitioning back to a cover, the band played Zach Top’s No. 1 hit, “I Never Lie”, while incorporating some Penn State-related ad-libs such as “She says Penn State is really great,” instead of Malibu.

Before playing their final original song, “Cowgirl Like Mine”, Adam & The Armadillos shouted out any cowgirls in the crowd. The intense love ballad is their most recent single, from September 2025, and already tops their discography with 250,000 hits.

They prefaced their next song as one that’s not technically a country song, though it definitely is — it’s even in the title. Playing “Take Me Home Country Road” by John Denver, Yarger appealed to the Penn State crowd with ad-libbed lines like, “To the place I belong, Happy Valley, Mount Nittany, take me home now, country road.”

Switching to modern country-rock, Adam & The Armadillos found the true country fans with “Trinity River” by Charley Crockett. Following Crockett, Yarger promised to play just a few more memorable songs.

There’s no better song to follow that statement with than “Chicken Fried”, an all-time hit by Zac Brown Band. Not only were the cowboy hat dancers dancing along, but the cardboard cutout letters bobbed left and right to the country classic.

And, as the band put it, what better way to pay tribute to the all-night revival that is THON than with Zach Bryan’s up-beat “Revival”?

Before finishing off their set, Adam & The Armadillos encouraged a round of applause for the dancers on the floor, and gave thanks to THON for another great country concert.

Just as they started their Wild West performance, Adam & The Armadillos covered a song by Texas-born Cody Johnson. Yarger described the song “‘Til You Can’t” as a fitting song to end with because it “makes the soul feel good.”