
Built on the road by Earl Neal.
Production manager. More than thirty years of touring, from the monitor desk to running the whole show.
I came up on the audio side. I mixed monitors and front of house for country, rock and pop artists, in arenas, stadiums and festivals, here and overseas. Somewhere along the way I started running the whole tour instead of just the stage mix.
Today I manage production for Jason Aldean, and I have since 2021. That means advancing every show, owning the production budget and the vendor contracts, and handling the trucks, buses, hotels and daily crew paperwork. Every summer I also work CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium, advancing artist production for the main stage as the CMA's representative. I have done that since 2012.
I have led touring parties of more than a hundred people on multi-million dollar budgets, with full routing responsibility. In 2015 I won the Parnelli Award for Production Manager of the Year. I won one in 2006 for Monitor Mixer of the Year. I have also been nominated for Production Manager of the Year at the CMA Touring Awards in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
I was frustrated with how bad the solutions in the market had gotten. Each one handled a slice of the job, and none of them were laid out the way a production manager thinks.
I wanted a program built around the way the work actually runs: advance the building, build the day, print the sheet, settle the night. I wanted everything in one location, not spread across multiple apps. So I built it, around the work I do every day.

Where I have worked
- Jason Aldean
- Peter Frampton
- Kid Rock
- The Band Perry
- Patty Loveless
- Toby Keith
- Aerosmith
- Rod Stewart
- Andrea Bocelli
- Boz Scaggs
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Gary Allan
- Brad Paisley
- Lenny Kravitz
- Chely Wright
- Wade Hayes
- Kevin Sharp
- Billy Joe Shaver
- Sara Evans
- Lonestar
These names are Earl's work history. The artists do not endorse or sponsor TourNex.
