{"id":1305352,"date":"2019-03-13T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803874"},"modified":"2019-03-13T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T10:00:03","slug":"cmt-crossroads-boyz-ii-mens-influence-on-brett-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/cmt-crossroads-boyz-ii-mens-influence-on-brett-young\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Crossroads: Boyz II Men\u2019s Influence on Brett Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> 20m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Brett Young<\/a> had a hard time narrowing down all the Boyz II Men<\/a> songs he wanted to sing on the newest CMT Crossroads<\/a><\/em>. Boyz II Men, the best-selling R&B group of all time, has been the soundtrack of Young\u2019s life ever since the group broke out with their 1991 debut, \u201cMotownphilly,\u201d and the group\u2019s timeless vocal arrangements continue to influence the music he makes today.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoyz II Men was so present and prevalent in my life when I started writing songs,\u201d Young told CMT.com backstage with the trio at their CMT Crossroads<\/em> concert. \u201cEvery once in a while, when you guys sing your solos I can tell who\u2019s who, but when you\u2019re singing together, it\u2019s like who\u2019s doing what right now? It pushed me as a singer before I even knew it was doing that.\u201d
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Boyz II Men\u2019s Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman have been a group for 27 years, and in that history, CMT Crossroads<\/em> has been their first opportunity to collaborate in the country music space. As the singers of iconic songs like \u201cI\u2019ll Make Love to You,\u201d \u201cEnd of the Road\u201d and \u201cWater Runs Dry,\u201d they know a great lyric when they hear it and are part of R&B\u2019s living history that continues to revitalize nearly every music genre. Arguably, no other music genre has had a more significant impact on country music in the last decade than R&B, and that\u2019s attributed to the current class of musicians consuming just as much timeless country as they are the latest Bruno Mars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been quite a few R&B records that have been covered by country artists and vice versa,\u201d Nathan Morris said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of songs we sing have country intonations,\u201d Wanya Morris added. \u201cWho\u2019s to say \u2018Water Runs Dry\u2019 couldn\u2019t be a country record? When Brett sings it, it sure sounds country to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newest CMT Crossroads<\/em> premieres March 27 at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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by Lauren Tingle 20m ago Brett Young had a hard time narrowing down all the Boyz II Men songs he wanted to sing on the newest CMT Crossroads. Boyz II Men, the best-selling R&B group of all time, has been the soundtrack of Young\u2019s life ever since the group broke out with their 1991 debut, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1305352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:34:17","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}