{"id":1314745,"date":"2019-09-18T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812054"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:06:09","slug":"is-feel-good-nostalgia-the-new-bro-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/is-feel-good-nostalgia-the-new-bro-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Feel-Good Nostalgia the New Bro-Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:675552?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\">37m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As far as trends that come and go in country music, I\u2019ll take nostalgia any day. And the more sentimental, the better.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if I never hear a bro-country song about trucks, cut-offs and \u2019shine again, I\u2019d be totally okay with that.<\/p>\n<p>So when Florida Georgia Line posted their new lyric video for their \u201cBlessings\u201d ballad, I realized that songs like this are not just a one-off. This is a bona fide thing now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">These are our blessings lyric video out now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sEERle3G4S\">https:\/\/t.co\/sEERle3G4S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Georgia Line (@FLAGALine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLAGALine\/status\/1174324006285119488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBlessings,\u201d a song that the duo\u2019s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley wrote with the dream team of Tom Douglas, Jesse Frasure, Jordan Schmidt and Ernest K. Smith, is one all about, obviously, counting your blessings. But the new lyric video they shared on Wednesday morning (Sept. 18) goes deeper than that. It\u2019s a photo album filled with a sepia-toned images of the lives they\u2019ve built since Hubbard and Kelley first met at Belmont University about a decade ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xs3Pilxy9pY?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\/xs3Pilxy9pY?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>And other country singers seem to be doing more of the same. Miranda Lambert was one of the first in modern country to go back, literally, with her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DQYNM6SjD_o\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The House That Built Me<\/a>.\u201d And now we have Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cRemember You Young,\u201d which looks back on growing old with someone, Jake Owen\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8XcnL33Ugs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Homemade<\/a>,\u201d about how home made him who he is, Luke Combs\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7kqqmr2HWI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Even Though I\u2019m Leaving<\/a>,\u201d about how much he depended on his father, Chris Young\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FSaSEBidLrE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Raised on Country<\/a>,\u201d about being brought up with a family tradition of honky-tonk attitude, and Eric Church\u2019s \u201cSome of It.\u201d A song all about the wisdom that comes from age, which is one of Church\u2019s very best.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xym_XCfcnI?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\/4xym_XCfcnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/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\/1812054\/is-feel-good-nostalgia-the-new-bro-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 37m ago As far as trends that come and go in country music, I\u2019ll take nostalgia any day. And the more sentimental, the better. In fact, if I never hear a bro-country song about trucks, cut-offs and \u2019shine again, I\u2019d be totally okay with that. So when Florida Georgia Line posted their [&hellip;]<\/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-1314745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 21:24:16","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\/1314745","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=1314745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}