Southern rock

humble beginnings, growing up working on a farm in Georgia, his hard work and dedication through the years have propelled him to a very successful country career. Before he became famous, Luke was just a normal boy that went to high school and started a family after school. Bryan is married to Caroline Boyer, and they have two sons, Thomas and Tatum (Luke Bryan Newsmaker 6). Luke was born on July 17, 1976 and grew up in Leesburg Georgia (Luke Bryan Newsmaker 1). His name is actually on the welcome sign for Leesburg, Georgia (Fun 2). After high school, he was planning on moving to Nashville, but his brother died in a car accident, and he decided to stay with his family and support them. While he was still living at home, he attended Georgia Southern University (Silva 10). Luke Bryan was passionate towards country music in his early teens and did what was necessary to make a name in the industry. It all started when was given his first guitar at age 14 by his parents (Luke Bryan Biography 1). At that moment, Luke’s passion for country music grew (Luke Bryan Biography 1). His singing and playing strengthened about a year after getting his guitar, so he went to clubs that offered live country music to play with local bands (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Bryan was influenced by George Strait, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson, and Merle Haggard, because his parents had their records (Luke Bryan Biography 1). At age 16, local tunesmiths helped him as he started writing…

With his resiliency and deep passion to forge on with his career, Chris Brown merits an appreciation for still sticking through and his triumph in providing us great music. We can all nod in agreement that Chris Brown's vocal calisthenics, slick dance moves and the charisma he exudes whenever he opens his mouth to sing made it easy for him to reach the summit of the slippery sap called fame. Since 2006 and upon the release of his illustrious hit entitled Yo (Excuse Me Miss), Chris Brown captured…

analysis on the influence that southern rock has had in the molding of white, southern identity. White supremacy and white privilege are among some of the most sensitive topics in America. While some are unwilling to admit they exist all together, others zone in on white privilege as an excuse. The line between the two is very difficult to navigate. In a time of high intensity race issues, is southern rock further perpetuating the divide we see in America? Southern rock music was both a…

music. Take the lyrics of traditional country music for example. In traditional country music songs had meaning to them, each song told a story. To be completely fair, modern country songs do tell stories, they just do not have the same depth to the story. It was not the story people in today society think they were, the stories that were told were ones about hard times, and how they would recover. Country music stood for the people who knew what an honest day of work was. Country music was…

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Country music—not an average person enjoys this genre on a daily basis. Tractors, trucks and trailers don’t seem to appeal unless one is dressing up on Halloween with overalls and bucked teeth. Yet, if the stereotype could fall down from the genre itself, and the lyrics could be built up, a newfound love for country music may arise. Truthfully, the most meaningful songs derive from the mouths of country artists. Tim McGraw, a talented veteran of the country genre, has an entire song dedicated…

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able to cast this spell, he said, ‘will you please help me on this quest to restore and take back what is ours”. I said, “ I am a woman of my word, and I swore I would care for my people”. We set off to find this place that we had to go to. We had stumbled across some monsters, and they attacked us, Harry ran up and sliced them with his sword. More came to attack and with each swing of the sword each one was dead. Harry said we better hurry up before more come. It took us about 4 hours to find…

army, Dorian. Dorian wanted Alexo to grow up to be strong and independent. Therefore, he taught her everything she needed to know about defending herself, like wielding a sword. As Alexo grew up, the more advanced her skills got, the more mature she was getting. One day she was walking through town and she stumbled upon a rock. “Ouch” Alexo Cried. “How may…

However, what makes this song necessarily, “country”? Country music has changed tremendously over the years, making it harder for these terms and ideas to be so concrete. Country music has a variety of different styles that form the idea of what country music is. Sometimes when you listen to country music, it doesn’t always necessarily sound like country music, because the songs you are listening too may not be your stereotypical form of country music. But when I listen to the song “Kick the…