Chase Bryant Plays A Guitar That He Designed When He Was a Kid
This is a pretty cool story. It’s about CHASE BRYANT and his beat-up pink guitar. It starts back in junior high when he was hating math. He’d rush through tests and then flip the paper over and draw pictures of a guitar.
And he was very specific. He drew a “left-handed body, right-handed neck” guitar, and he labeled it “Guitar Center’s Chase Bryant Signature Guitar.” Chase said one teacher saw the drawing and mocked him.
Quote, “[He] said, ‘This guitar will never get you anywhere. Math will.'” Right. Actually, wrong. Years later Chase sent the actual math test AND drawing to a guitar company and they built it. It’s now THE pink guitar that he’s still playing.
And it’s built to last. He says, quote, “It’s been thrown on concrete stages, wood stages, and has never fallen apart. I think it’s a sign that’s saying, ‘You know what? This career will get me somewhere.”
Florida Georgia Line Wants You to Know They’re Not Anti-Police
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE is still on damage control over last weekend’s reports that they refused to let the police go backstage at their shows. They issued a statement yesterday hoping to clear things up.
They started by saying “you won’t find two guys who are more supportive” of the police than they are. They called whole thing “a misunderstanding” that was “blown out of proportion” and “taken out of context.”
As for the actual reason: They said it would’ve been “redundant” to use local authorities because they have their own security. They said some acts accept a police presence backstage, but most don’t.
They drove the point home by saying quote, “We have an enormous amount of respect for the brave men and women who protect our communities and allow us and our fans to have a good time at our shows.”
In other Florida Georgia Line news. Their third album, “Dig Your Roots”, will be out August 27th. They describe it as having “beautiful love songs, spiritual songs, and party songs.”
One more thing about Willie Nelson: He’s releasing a Ray Price tribute album. It’s called “For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price” and it will be out September 16th. Vince Gill and the Time Jumpers back him on six of the songs. You can listen to the track “Heartaches by the Number” at NashCountryDaily.com.
Last we heard from THE BAND PERRY, they were planning to “gradually” switch over to pop. Seems the “gradual” part hasn’t fully kicked-in because their next single is a country song called “Comeback Kid”. (Full Story)
MIRANDA LAMBERT loves the Windy City . . . and their rednecks. Quote, “I love Chicago. It’s a great place to play. Funny, because when you’re a country artist you can see there are rednecks everywhere.” (Delicious Audio)
BRETT ELDREDGE was inspired to write “Wanna Be That Song” after being asked what he wanted to be as an artist. Quote, “I said, ‘I want to be that song that makes you fall in love, that makes you dance when you need to dance, makes you cry when you need to cry. I want to be that to someone.'” (Delicious Audio)
Speaking of Brett Eldredge: Don’t forget that he and THOMAS RHETT are co-hosting this year’s “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock”. It’s airing one week from tonight on ABC. (CMA World)
FRANKIE BALLARD went with a dive bar theme in the video for his song “Cigarette“.