The Story Behind Luke Bryan’s Success
Luke Bryan has scored hit after hit since entering the country music scene in 2007. You’d think he’d feel some sort of pressure to keep that momentum going as he looked toward his seventh studio album release this month. But the country superstar says he feels pretty lucky that he’s never “operated in the world of immense amount of pressure.”
Except, that is, for the pressure he felt prior to releasing his sophomore album, “Doin’ My Thing” in 2009. “I had to have some hit songs to just really keep my career going,” he told HuffPost.
And going it did. With plenty of awards and accolades to his name, Bryan now says he’s just enjoying the ride.
His philosophy? “Just do your best, work your butt off, trust your gut, and the rest will take care of itself.”
HuffPost caught up with Bryan shortly before his album dropped about the new music and more.
It’s quite a different year, but based on your Instagram updates, it seems like you’ve been making the most out of the quarantine situation, playing pranks on the family and even planting a cornfield [at home in Tennessee].
From cornfields to western trout, all of my ideas that I’ve created are built for social distancing. I’ve kind of made the most of the year and just trying to keep a positive attitude and just praying to get back to normalcy and praying to be in front of fans somewhere in the near future.
What surprised you the most about yourself during this time?
Well, I guess what surprised me the most is it took me about a month to kind of settle into this. I didn’t realize how much I operated just deprived of sleep for so many years. You’ve got to understand, since mid-March, I go to bed at 10:00 and wake up at 7:00, and I’ve never been in the situation where I had a structure like that. And certainly, when I added “American Idol” into the mix, it just became traveling East Coast, West Coast, concerts, sleeping on a plane, so the fact that even about two months in, I...
