{"id":629,"date":"2015-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/07\/29\/chase-bryant-nashvilles-newest-sensation\/"},"modified":"2015-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:00:00","slug":"chase-bryant-nashvilles-newest-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2015\/2015\/07\/29\/chase-bryant-nashvilles-newest-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Bryant: Nashville’s Newest Sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music. \u00a0It evokes feelings, transports me back in time and recharges me almost as though it’s a battery pack. \u00a0Music for Nashville’s newest sensation, Chase Bryant<\/a>, is the same. \u00a0It’s in his blood.<\/p>\n

Coming from a musical family in small town Texas, Chase heard Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Lewis Boogie” and that was all it took. \u00a0From that point on, his course was set. \u00a0Learning to play the guitar at a very early age, he jokes that there were 20 guitars in his hometown, and he owned all of them. \u00a0After seeing Chase perform recently at The Taste of Country Music Festival<\/a>, his hard work and dedication to learning his skill showed as I was floored by his shredding ability and how he made his guitar sing.<\/p>\n

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Chase Bryant – Taste of Country Festival 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Chase and the Shotgun Rider Tour<\/a> comes to town Thursday, July 3o to Darien Lake<\/a>, Chase will open for Nashville favorites Billy Currington and Tim McGraw<\/a>. \u00a0He graciously agreed to speak with our readers and share some details to what makes him tick.<\/p>\n

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Kathy Stockbridge (KS)<\/strong>: Hi Chase, thank you so much for agreeing to speak with NYSMusic. \u00a0You have taken Nashville by storm since your arrival and your fans and our readers just love you.<\/p>\n

Chase Bryant (CB)<\/strong>: Why thank you.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> Music seems to be something that has always been in your blood. \u00a0For those that aren’t aware you grew up in a family of musicians. \u00a0Share a little about what that was like for you growing up.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> Well it was definitely a loud household. My grandfather was a keyboard player for Roy Orbison<\/a>, and he played along side him throughout high school and right up until the summer my grandfather bowed out of the band because his mom said he couldn’t play rock and roll music any more. After that he went on to college and played with Waylon Jennings, and then on the Glen Campbell television show in Lubbock Texas, and then my two uncles played in a band called Ricochet<\/a> and had the hit “Daddy’s Money” back in 1996.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> I remember that song! So it was in your blood, you were destined. You were born to do this.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> Yep, there was nothing I could do about it, and I’m glad there was nothing I could do about it, because I love it.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> Share with our readers a little about your relationship with Barbara and Alex Orbison and how that relationship played \u00a0a role in your career in Nashville.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> Alex I used to say was one of my best friends, but I think he’s now more like a second brother to me. He’s been great to me and we’ve built a really great relationship when it comes to music and life in general. He’s been so supportive of my music and his mother Barbara as well has been one of my biggest fans. \u00a0I couldn’t thank her enough for signing me. \u00a0She was a great lady and I was her last signing at her company before she passed away. \u00a0So that was a pretty awesome experience.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> When you came to Nashville, Benny Brown — founder of BBR Music Group<\/a>\u00a0— was so taken back by your talent as a producer of your demo tapes, he allowed you to co-produce your album with Derek George, which I must add is not something he does often. \u00a0Share with us a little about how you taught yourself the production end of recording and how you have grown since those early days as a producer.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> \u00a0I was on a panel the other day and I was asked how do you teach someone producing, and you really can’t. \u00a0If your ears aren’t there and you can’t hear the music then it might not be for you. \u00a0There are some great artists that never produced their own records or played on their own records, or maybe even wrote the songs. \u00a0But they were great records and ones I definitely looked up to. \u00a0I got lucky and sometimes I think that maybe what I do isn’t always right, but Benny sure has given me an opportunity to expand on it. \u00a0Whatever my name is or the sound that goes along with it, Benny Brown and Broken Bow and Red Bow Records have really let me carve that path and let me become who I really want to be. I’m thankful for that. \u00a0I was able to write all the songs on this record, co-produce the record, and I played all the guitars. \u00a0I didn’t produce it by myself either. I co-produced with my best friend Derek George. \u00a0We had a blast making that record.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> Well the finished piece was amazing and you have a great ear for it.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> \u00a0Well thank you.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> \u00a0In addition to producing, you also write your own music. \u00a0You say that you wrote 400 lousy songs before you wrote your first good one\u2026what was that one song that caught the attention of Nashville manager, pluggers, and publishers? \u00a0Did you know when writing that one, it as the one?<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> \u00a0I think “Take It On Back” was the first really organic, not left of center or anything that had never been done, but it was one of those songs that defined who I was and that sound that people know me by now. \u00a0I think it was that, and a song called “Change Your Name,” and probably another one that did it, called “Wish I Was A Plane” was another one that set the radar for the label and set the tone for the record. \u00a0Now “Wish I Was A Plane” is one we play live (isn’t on record). You have those couple of songs that lead to other songs, and those three definitely lead to probably 15 or 16 songs to be on this record that I would like to say are collectively my best pieces of music I could make at the moment.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, “Change Your Name” is my fav.<\/p>\n

CB:<\/strong> \u00a0Well thank you. \u00a0I’m hoping that’s a single in the near future. We’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong>\u00a0It will definitely be a hit. \u00a0You also are an amazing guitarist. \u00a0You are a left hand guitarist that plays a right handed guitar upside down. \u00a0It’s not something you notice either. \u00a0I shot your set at Taste of Country Festival this past June, which by the way you killed it, and after I read that you had this unique talent\u2026I went back to study the photos and sure enough\u2026you rock that guitar left handed, upside-down! \u00a0Wow\u2026how did you manage to learn that skill?<\/p>\n

CB:\u00a0<\/strong>I don’t know, I’m still learning. \u00a0Everybody always says “how do you do that, how do you do that?” There’s times I look at and go “why am I doing it this?” But it just happened. \u00a0I think a lot of people told me no, and a lot of people thought that I would never play it like that, so I was a stubborn kid growing up and therefore I had to do it. \u00a0It also saved my mom and dad a lot of money buying me my first right handed guitar because left handed ones are way too expensive. \u00a0I know my mom thinks I have way too many guitars but in the end it ended up saving us a ton of money.<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> You recently had the opportunity to do a project with Kia Motors and Michael McDonald in their ground breaking digital series Rediscovered. Share with my readers a little about that project and what that experience was like for you.<\/p>\n