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Luke Bryan in Session

As part of the run up to the 2015 C2C festival, Bob Harris hosts a session from US country singer-songwriter Luke Bryan.

As part of the run up to C2C 2015, Bob's Nashville session guest is Luke Bryan.

The current CMA Entertainer of the Year, Luke Bryan was born on July 1976 in Leesburg, Georgia. He moved to Nashville after high school to pursue his dream of a country music career, and a few years later his first album with Capitol Records, I'll Stay Me, was released. The album earned Bryan a nomination for Top New Male Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music and led to a slew of other hit albums and songs. Albums such as Tailgates & Tanlines and Spring Break...Here to Party have subsequently made Bryan a bona fide crossover star as well.

He grew up the youngest son of a farmer. Always interested in music, Bryan was raised on his parents' record collection, which included such country artists as George Strait, Conway Twitty and Merle Haggard.

When he was 14, Bryan's parents bought him a guitar, and it wasn't long before he was good enough on the instrument, and with his voice, to begin sitting in with local musicians. In high school, Bryan performed in musicals and wrote his own songs, which he sang with a band he started.

As high school came to an end, Bryan was already eyeing a move to Nashville to pursue his musical dreams. But with plans made, tragedy struck: His older brother, Chris, was killed in a car accident. Devastated, Bryan put Nashville on hold and enrolled in Georgia Southern University, so he could be close to his family. He also kept busy working on his father's peanut farm while also playing with a new band at night on campus and in local bars.

Luke's session is part of the run up to the 2015 Country 2 Country festival; Radio 2 is the event's broadcast partner. There are further sessions to come from Kip Moore (Feb 19th) and Jason Aldean (Feb 26th).

57 minutes

Last on

Thu 12 Feb 2015 19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Little Big Town

    Stay All Night

    • Painkiller.
    • Capitol.
    • Hump169.

  • Lady A

    Long Stretch of Love

    • 747.
    • Decca/Big Machine/Capitol/Nashville.
    • Ref1.

  • Willie Nelson

    Navajo Trail

    • Still The King.
    • Proper.
    • PRPCD127.

  • The Time Jumpers

    So Far Apart

    • The Time Jumpers.
    • Rounder.
    • 0011661914827.

  • Luke Bryan

    That's My Kind of Night - Live

  • Luke Bryan

    Crash My Party

  • Luke Bryan

    Drink a Beer

  • Katie Armiger

    Man I Thought you were

    • Fall Into Me.
    • Cold River Records.
    • 894227002325.

  • Miranda Lambert

    Another Sunday in the South

    • Platinum.
    • Sony Music.
    • 88883792782.

  • Rosanne Cash

    The Long Way Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    • The River & The Thread.
    • Decca/Blue Note.
    • CD001.

  • Jim Reeves

    HE'LL HAVE TO GO

    • THE DEFINITIVE JIM REEVES.
    • ARCADE BENELUX.
    • ARC-94982.

  • JD McPherson

    It's All Over But The Shouting

    • Let The Good Times Roll.
    • Rounder Records.
    • n/a.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Feb 2015 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2