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“Country fans want heavy lyrics over heavy songs.”
The Simple Secret to the Success of Ben Burgess, Ernest and Hardy’s Big Loud Records-Signed Singer-Songwriter Trio to Headline Special Whiskey Jam Event at The Losers in Midtown Nashville Revealed by Hardy relaxing while sitting on the tour bus earlier. bar.
A sold-out crowd for the event arrived three hours early amid a 100-degree heat index waiting to celebrate with a Rock Meets rap. Trio within 10 years. The artist currently occupies his lane in the genre’s most commercially successful and mainstream.
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Historically, mania occurs whenever country, rock, blues, or hip-hop collide. The Rolling Stones played the 1969 Altamont Free Concert, Kid Rock joined the now infamous 1999 Woodstock line-up, and Losers Bar’s Big Loud Records performed part of a crowded balcony floor. buckled and hit a gas pipe. This led firefighters to the scene. The incident delayed the start of the event for him by two hours. Thankfully, this is just a moment on the radar of Music Panic’s legendary chronology.
HARDY and “Hixtape” Unite Nashville Country Communities
“It’s pretty cool to be able to explode who you think are the best artists in the genre, regardless of their experience, and see them succeed,” Hardy said of the “Hixtape” series. 3 years ago.
Essentially, these releases reflected the concept of the early 2000s, when hip-hop producers sourced artists for exclusive hip-hop tracks for the streets. Instead, HARDY encapsulates radio and honky-tonk favorites as songs he wrote, mostly pop aimed at his country-loving audience.
About 50 artists are featured on 40 tracks of a streamable collection of material that integrates nicely into terrestrial radio and streaming playlists. Keith Urban and Lindsay Elle were among those who appeared in The Losers, but artists such as Deeks Bentley, Ashland Kraft, The Brothers Osborne, Marty Stewart, and Rainie Wilson are also featured.
Conceptually, what made “Hixtape” successful was key to the trio’s rise as artists and their creative aesthetic that defined the cultural vibe of country music’s edgy pop edge. There is also something.
“Hardy guys in ball caps are definitely not a bunch of guys like pro wrestlers surrounded by hot girls,” says HARDY, the type of guy his solo and collaborative endeavors celebrate. “Rednecker,” “One Beer,” and the hardest rock-inspired single ever, “Sold Out.” The songs like “Masu” are all about elevating everyday middle-class life to high commerce.
“People like me, Morgan [Wallen]Luke Combs, we’re all talking about what we, and everyone else, knows all too well.
HARDY highlights the work of Trace Adkins and Rodney Akins, igniting an approachable, blue-collar rock-themed country music after an era when the likes of Kid Rock dabbled in lane and defined it. It is emphasized as essential to the goal of continuing.
“We are proud to bring this culture back to country music,” says HARDY.
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The crew initially came together when Morgan Warren signed to Big Loud Records in 2016. Six years later, Burgess, Hardy, and Ernest announced that Warren had released two double-platinum albums (2018 debut If I Know Me and 2021 sequel Dangerous: The Double Album). ) and is said to have written 60% of his works. “
Burgess, 37, from East Dallas, Texas, was Warren’s first No. 1 country radio and sales chart hit in 2016 with “Whiskey Glass.”
His music city success follows an arduous journey as he brings the desires of a self-described “bard” to Austin, much like one of his idols, Willie Nelson. His early successes as a songwriter included arranging songs such as his 2010 single “Chillin’ In the Summertime” for the Jonas Brothers. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he said in a 2020 interview that he “run out of town for sounding ‘too country’.”
He settled in Nashville in 2015 and signed a deal with Warner Chappell Music Publishing.
Relentless ambition has led him as far as discovering Nashville “is nothing but an open door,” says Big Loud debut single as an artist (he signed in 2021). ), “Tears The Size of Texas, Tears The Size of Texas,” was released to critical acclaim.
“This town is ready for anything,” continues Burgess. While in Los Angeles, he thought that his EDM and hip-hop focus on 2010s pop music didn’t suit his breadth of musical desires, so he wasn’t for himself. . “Compared to Los Angeles, his community of songwriters in Nashville is deep, strong, supportive, and supportive,” he adds.
Regarding the unique spice he brings to the nationally defined cultural melting pot that Nashville is becoming, Burgess said, “We’re trying to make music that spans generations here. It’s not a throwaway that you forget about once you’re up.” The songwriter adds that “an inclusive community that does its best to expand the reach of the city” is his overarching goal.
“You dream of these moments”
In 2021, Nashville native ERNEST will be on board and in superconscious country music circles as a writer credited with Chris Lane, Jake Owen, Sam Hunt (“Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s”), and Wallen. was well known. He played Whiskey Jam at his 10th anniversary event in Ryman. There he debuted “Flower Shops”, a song he wrote and which Warren agreed to collaborate on.
“No one knew then, but this time we were all singing along,” Ernest, drenched in sweat on a muggy night, told The Tennessean shortly after walking off stage. .
To mark the official release of Flower Shop’s in January 2022, apparel brand Stevenson Ranch released a customized Flower Shop trucker hat that the artist sometimes wears on stage.
When ERNEST appeared at Whiskey Jam, he wore a black motorcycle vest with bold colors and custom embroidery, highlighting his pride in being from Music City.
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“I’m a hard-working local kid,” ERNEST says with an understatement.
“I don’t know how to explain this. It’s amazing. I’m dreaming of moments like this,” Hardy said. Hardy quickly found comparisons in his early ’70s work for artists like Lynard to the contemporary country-rock-meets-moments (and more). 80s performers like Skynyrd and Waylon Jennings, plus Aerosmith and Motley Crue.
“As long as you’re respectful and kind to people, it’s fun,” he says. “Being on stage is about letting go of the bad** that’s inside all of us.”