{"id":16734,"date":"2019-07-17T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809157"},"modified":"2019-07-17T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:50:30","slug":"luke-bryan-master-of-spring-break-tunes-turns-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/luke-bryan-master-of-spring-break-tunes-turns-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan, Master of Spring Break Tunes, Turns 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:359963?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">31m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-bryan\">Luke Bryan<\/a> has written and sung them all \u2014 love songs, breakup songs, buddy songs, and looking inward songs. But on this, his 43rd birthday (July 17), let us tip our hats and\/or lift our glasses to his singular achievement, the spring break song.<\/p>\n<p>In his themes and interviews, Bryan has walked the line between farm boy and frat boy. Clearly, though, farm boys are not spring break creatures. In spring, they plant things\u2013like crops. Spring break, as Bryan relays it to us, is the domain of fraternity types with too much time on their hands, too much beer in their coolers and volcanic libidos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fT78hveC_Ow?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fT78hveC_Ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Bryan released his first spring break-themed EP \u2014 <em>Spring Break With All My Friends<\/em> \u2014 in 2009. It contained the cuts \u201cSorority Girl\u201d and the soon-to-be crowd favorite, \u201cTake My Drunk Ass Home.\u201d And it set the tone for future lyrical bacchanalia.<\/p>\n<p>There followed the Spring Break packages <em>Hangover Edition<\/em> (2010), <em>It\u2019s a Shore Thing<\/em> (2011), <em>Suntan City<\/em> (2012), <em>Like We Ain\u2019t Ever<\/em> (2014) and <em>Checkin\u2019 Out<\/em> (2015). These mini-albums were peppered with such provocative and promising songs as \u201cWild Weekend,\u201d \u201cSpring Break Up,\u201d \u201cLove in a College Town,\u201d \u201cGood Lookin\u2019 Girl,\u201d \u201cBuzzkill\u201d and \u201cCold Beer Drinker.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9OKO1pyOlk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9OKO1pyOlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Also in 2015, Bryan\u2019s record label released the two-CD set <em>Spring Break: The Set List<\/em> that contained all 25 songs in the series. This was apparently Bryan\u2019s farewell to the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he will again visit the beach with his spring break rowdiness remains an open question. Maybe he could return as a chaperone with a whole new perspective \u2014 maybe with something like <em>Spring Break: Enforcing the Curfew<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809157\/luke-bryan-master-of-spring-break-tunes-turns-43\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 31m ago Luke Bryan has written and sung them all \u2014 love songs, breakup songs, buddy songs, and looking inward songs. But on this, his 43rd birthday (July 17), let us tip our hats and\/or lift our glasses to his singular achievement, the spring break song. In his themes and interviews, Bryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:29:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}