{"id":19881,"date":"2019-11-04T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814026"},"modified":"2019-11-04T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:21:55","slug":"what-luke-bryan-means-to-jon-langston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/what-luke-bryan-means-to-jon-langston\/","title":{"rendered":"What Luke Bryan Means to Jon Langston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684282?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\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n15m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Luke Bryan wasn\u2019t the first artist to see something in newcomer Jon Langston. <\/p>\n<p>The very first big shot to see Langston\u2019s potential was Rhett Akins. About a month after Langston moved to Nashville in 2014, he got a direct message from Akins on Twitter. \u201cHe hit me up on Twitter. It was a direct message that just said, \u2019Holler at me. Rhett\u2019 and it had his cell phone number,\u201d Langston told me about that first contact with a seriously successful songwriter. \u201cI was so shocked. I had to check and make sure it was really him, but when I looked, sure enough it was the blue check verified account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What likely piqued Akins\u2019 interest was the first song Langston had on YouTube in 2013, \u201cForever Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wz5_ktnCbvo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wz5_ktnCbvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>After Langston\u2019s tour with Luke Bryan wrapped last week, we had a chance to catch up on everything that\u2019s happened since he hollered at Akins. <\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: Now that you\u2019ve released you new EP <em>Now You Know<\/em>, how do you think you\u2019ve changed as a songwriter in the past six years?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Langston: I think it\u2019s just a matter of always having an idea of <em>what <\/em>I wanted to say, but now I\u2019ve found ways to say it better. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your first attempts at songwriting like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I look back at songs from just five years ago, I\u2019m like, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d Now I\u2019ve got more to say, and I now I know how to say things more clearly to get my point across. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there ever a point where you worry that you\u2019ll run out of song ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not so much that. But some days I think I\u2019ll never get better. I\u2019ll feel like, \u201cI\u2019ll never write a hook like that ever again.\u201d And then two weeks later I\u2019ll write something even better. Music is always changing, and you think you\u2019ll never grow. But you just do. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Bryan seems to agree with you on that. When he started his 32 Bridge Entertainment record label at Universal Music Group, you were the first guy he signed. What does that even feel like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really hard to even put it into words when you realize that someone is there for you, and then you realize the caliber of Luke. Of all the things he could be doing, he is giving me a shot. That is surreal. And it\u2019s more than that. He\u2019s always there for me. Man, if I\u2019m down and not having a good day on the road or whatever and I call him, he always picks up on the first ring. Luke is such a great person to have in your corner, and I will never take that for granted. Because there are so many amazing songwriters and artists in Nashville that he could\u2019ve done this for. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And it\u2019s more than just being on his roster. You\u2019ve been on his massive tour, and even on his Farm Tour for a few years now. What\u2019s was different about this year\u2019s Farm Tour compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1799658\/jon-langston-god-closed-one-door-luke-bryan-opened-another\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">your first<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything. The whole experience of being on stage. Because this year, I had the nerves kind of out of the way and so I was much more comfortable on stage. And that let me get closer to the crowd, instead of worrying about messing up and worrying about how many people would show up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXSys77mtTs?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXSys77mtTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Oh, people will show up. There\u2019s no need to worry about that ever again. You must\u2019ve seen up close what a massive sold-out crowd looks like on Bryan\u2019s Sunset Repeat Tour. What lessons did you learn from Bryan this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watching him control 25,000 people for two hours was unreal. He has them all in palm of hand, and they all just home in on him. I just sit there taking notes on everything he does: the way he interacts with crowd in between songs, how there is no dead time, how there is never a dull moment, how his energy is always up, and all the little things. That\u2019s what I was trying to take in every single night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmSKIHKL4zY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmSKIHKL4zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Langston will be taking his learnings out on his own tour \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonlangston.com\/tour\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Bird Dog Tour<\/a> \u2014 and his next stop is on Nov. 15 in North Carolina. And here\u2019s what his tour looks like when you\u2019re Beyond the Barricade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vgEgAe5DX0s?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vgEgAe5DX0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1814026\/what-luke-bryan-means-to-jon-langston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago Luke Bryan wasn\u2019t the first artist to see something in newcomer Jon Langston. The very first big shot to see Langston\u2019s potential was Rhett Akins. About a month after Langston moved to Nashville in 2014, he got a direct message from Akins on Twitter. \u201cHe hit me up on Twitter. 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