Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Luke Bryan
Artist: Luke Bryan
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
I'll Stay Me
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Singer and ballad maker Luke Bryan comes by his country influences by nature -- he grew up in Leesburg, GA, a small town C miles from the Alabama border where his father grew peanuts and sold fertiliser for a living. Bryan helped his kin work the farm when he was offspring, just in his early teens he highly-developed a passion for country music, picking up his influences from his parents' record collection, hearing to the likes of George Strait, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson, and Merle Haggard. When he was 14, his folks bought Bryan his number one guitar, and a year later his acting and tattle was strong sufficiency that he started session in with local bands at a club featuring alive country music. At 16, Bryan starting writing songs with the help of a mate of local tunesmiths wHO had enjoyed some success in Nashville, and Bryan planned to head to Music City to try his luck after graduating from high school until his blood brother died in an car accident. Wanting to offer emotional support to his kinsperson, Bryan opted to give ear Georgia Southern University alternatively, though he didn't give up medicine; Bryan continued writing songs, formed a band and was acting gigs on campus or at nearby lachrymation holes most weekends piece pursuing his studies. Bryan recorded a self-released album he sold at shows during this geological period, just he was reluctant to take the immerse and devote himself to medicine full-time until he returned home to work in the family business enterprise later on receiving his degree. Bryan's pa, confident of his son's talent, made him an propose -- he could either impress to Nashville or be pink-slipped. In the early fall of 2001, Bryan pulled up stakes and relocated to Nashville, where his devout songs of country life earned him a contract with one of the city's many publishing houses. In his unfreeze meter, Bryan continued to perform at local clubs, and later an A&R humans from Capitol Records adage him perform a set of his original material, he was minded a record deal. Capitol released Bryan's number one widely distributed record album, I'll Stay Me, in the summertime of 2007.
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