Luke Bryan’s Challenges Then And Now
Luke Bryan has put in a lot of years of making his country music dreams come true. Now that he’s a superstar, he told us about some of the challenges…
Luke Bryan has put in a lot of years of making his country music dreams come true. Now that he’s a superstar, he told us about some of the challenges that he had early in his career and the challenges he faces now.
Luke told us, "I used to have a lot of my challenges in my early albums, but I was still learning what my voice was going to be and capable of. And now there are no surprises to me vocally there are some songs on this album (Mind Of A County Boy), but I came in prepared to sing them the best I could. My producer's like, 'Man, Luke, this is kind of the best I’ve heard you sing.'"
With his new album, he has upped the ante. He said, "If I finish a tour, and I can be a little of a better performer every year and grow a little bit that’s kind of my goal."
He continued, "As far as challenges, I don’t really enter into making albums with a lot of anxiety and stuff. It’s always been like that exciting, fun process. It’s like when we’re in the studio. It’s excitement going on. We have fun, and it always has been that."
He concluded, "If there is a challenge, I mean, you look at all the people coming into country music and you look how people consume music. If there were 30 artists years ago, now it’s unlimited. My biggest challenge is trying to do music that catches people's ear, and I still can kind of be as relevant as I could be in an ever-changing climate of a lot of stuff going on in music."
Bryan has been a fixture on American Idol as a judge for a couple of years. What some people don’t know is American Idol actually had to talk him into being on the show.
He told us, "The day that I took American Idol… it’s funny American Idol approached me. My thing was like, 'Guys, I’m doing stadiums. I’m kinda at the pinnacle of my career, and can American Idol keep that going.' I certainly didn’t want it to hurt at the time."
He continued, "The American Idol brand was kind of roughed up. It wasn’t anybody’s fault. I think it had ran its course and they really had to do some talking to me to get me transitioning to a new form of my career.'"
