“One day, I played to three people,” Young remembers. You make it up.” He cut his first independent record after high school, using his own money to fund 500 or so CDs and take himself on a short tour of Florida, where he played mostly Borders bookstores. Which is funny, because you don’t necessarily have to know how to write a song. “I’d written poems and stuff, but I didn’t really know how. “People were telling me to learn to write songs,” he says. I can’t imagine we were that good, but really, that was me enjoying the heck out of what I did.”Įveryone starts somewhere, and Young was starting to hone his craft. “I would have these big Xs in chunky black marker on my hands. “I was entirely too young to be playing in bars,” Young says. In his early teens, Young convinced his mom to drive him into Nashville so he could sit in with bands and work with local songwriters by 16, he’d formed a band with some older guys from Middle Tennessee State University, and they started playing George Strait and Garth Brooks covers in whatever clubs would have them. Blessed with parents who encouraged his art, Young soon found his way into musical theater, jazz training, and six years of classical voice, which honed his emerging baritone into something truly special. That’s something of an understatement for the Murfreesboro, TN native. It’s the end of the world!’ And then I realized I could sing Randy Travis songs. “For about a year there, I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m ruined. “I was singing all of Vince Gill’s stuff, and then my voice changed,” Young laughs. He sang so much around the house that he jokes his parents “blocked him out.” But as puberty approached, the young tenor found himself facing adversity for the first time. to Miami, followed by the likes of Randy Travis, Tracy Lawrence and Brooks & Dunn. “So I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ I just kind of always knew.” His first record purchase was Keith Whitley’s L.A. “I’ve always loved country music, and I really liked singing it as a kid,” Young remembers. Still, when all is said and done, it only takes two words to sum up the career of Chris Young: Definitely country. Now, with the release of his fourth album, A.M., the man known for his classic baritone and melt-your-heart ballads knows how to have a good time, too. Already a Grammy-nominated recording artist, he’s also a dynamic live performer consistently in demand, an international ambassador for his genre, a talented songwriter with six Number Ones to his name – by the way, he wrote four of them – and a handsome charmer to boot.
Has accomplished more by 29 than some artists do in a lifetime. 1 ‘Famous Friends‘ with Kane Brown and “At The End of a Bar,” his newest single with Mitchell Tenpenny, this expanded version includes new collaborations with Jimmie Allen plus two new solo songs as well as acoustic versions of fan favourites ‘I’m Comin’ Over’ and “Think of You” with Cassadee Pope.Ĭhris produced or co-produced all twenty sides on the new Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition) release. In addition to the award-winning, multi-week No. It’s a joyous, uplifting track that exists within that same meta-verse that Old Dominion’s ‘Song for Another Time’ does – it being a song about songs! Matt Ramsey’s rich vocals add an extra dimension to a song destined to become a live favourite in Young’s set. One listen to ‘Everybody Needs a Song’ will put a big smile on your face. The collaboration with Old Dominion is one of six new sides found on the upcoming album. Chris Young is treating fans to new music with the release of ‘Everybody Needs a Song’ the first track from his ‘Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition)‘ out June 3.
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