{"id":17080,"date":"2019-07-29T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809593"},"modified":"2019-07-29T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:47:13","slug":"how-a-tim-mcgraw-classic-led-to-blanco-browns-the-git-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/how-a-tim-mcgraw-classic-led-to-blanco-browns-the-git-up\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Tim McGraw Classic Led to Blanco Brown\u2019s \u201cThe Git Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:678965?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\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">1m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Long before Blanco Brown\u2019s \u201cThe Git Up\u201d became a streaming sensation, the Atlanta musician was a kid who loved visiting his aunty in rural Georgia. In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5634271\/blanco-brown-the-git-up-interview\/\">interview with Time.com<\/a>, he explains that hearing a Tim McGraw song introduced him to country music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard it I was like, \u2019Wow, this is a story \u2014 this is different from what I\u2019m used to hearing.\u2019 Before that I was hearing Donny Hathaway, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye\u2014I never heard that approach to music. It changed my perspective and broadened my senses. I could never get away from the storytelling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7U6AoZ27yE?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\/Q7U6AoZ27yE?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>This summer, Blanco Brown \u2014 who signed to Nashville label BBR Music Group\/BMG in 2018 \u2014 earned a No. 1 spot on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart, which takes streaming figures into account, along with sales and airplay.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about being an African American trying to make it in country music, Brown stated, \u201cNobody was holding me back: It wasn\u2019t the right timing. I didn\u2019t present it. I would never blame music on a race thing. Because one thing I\u2019ve learned about Nashville is, if they love what you have to offer and it\u2019s authentic, they\u2019re going to support it full-heartedly. They just want to make sure it\u2019s not a joke. I feel like all genres should be more like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vn6QdqxK3g?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\/-vn6QdqxK3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Terry Wyatt\/Getty Images for Spotify<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809593\/how-a-tim-mcgraw-classic-led-to-blanco-browns-the-git-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 1m ago Long before Blanco Brown\u2019s \u201cThe Git Up\u201d became a streaming sensation, the Atlanta musician was a kid who loved visiting his aunty in rural Georgia. In a new interview with Time.com, he explains that hearing a Tim McGraw song introduced him to country music. \u201cWhen I heard it I was [&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-17080","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 18:09:06","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\/17080","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=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}