{"id":20750,"date":"2019-12-30T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816053"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:06:20","slug":"luke-bryan-one-minute-im-the-savior-of-country-music-the-next-ive-ruined-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/luke-bryan-one-minute-im-the-savior-of-country-music-the-next-ive-ruined-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan: \u201cOne Minute, I\u2019m the Savior of Country Music; the Next, I\u2019ve Ruined It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n26m ago<\/span>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

Luke Bryan knows all too well that the music business can be something of a fickle mistress. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne minute, I\u2019m the savior of country music,\u201d Bryan said in the recent year-end Country Aircheck<\/em> magazine interview, \u201cthe next, I\u2019ve ruined it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, Bryan doesn\u2019t ever want to be that guy<\/em>. The one who complains <\/a>about how hard it is to be a country artist these days. \u201cI will never be the guy who criticizes and belly aches about how someone makes music and a living for themselves. I\u2019ve had it happen to me,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m never going to be that guy.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the interview, Bryan goes on to say that country music is evolving, and that\u2019s not a bad thing. \u201cI\u2019ve heard legends say, \u2019I wish country music would go back to\u2026\u2019 I don\u2019t really understand why we would spend a lot of time trying to sound like people in the 80s and 90s. I get what people are trying to say, but you have to find your own sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryan cites Midland, Kane Brown, and Dan + Shay as examples of country artists doing quite well without sounding exactly like the country artists who came before them. As for Dan + Shay, he says, \u201cIs it as country as Merle Haggard? No, but they\u2019re doing their artistry and a lot of people are buying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he takes a trip down memory lane, to his early days of playing live and he noticed that the fans there to see him were pretty open-minded about what they liked. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was playing 800-seat honky-tonks, as soon as I came off stage the DJ was playing Flo Rida and daggum T-Pain. Everybody had cowboy hats on and were dancing to rap music. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, people have playlist with all forms of music. The days where everybody just listens to one style of music because that\u2019s the only channel their car will pick up on the radio are gone. People have their music they listen to when they\u2019re on their boat. They\u2019ve got their music for when they ride around their farm. They\u2019ve got their music they listen to when they\u2019re tailgating at a football game. It\u2019s all different, and it all sets a mood that they want to get into. <\/p>\n

Bryan just posted his #Top9 of 2019 on his social media pages, and we concur. It has been a fun year. (And thank God his dog finally has his own Instagram.)<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chocbossbryan\/?hl=en<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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