{"id":1255,"date":"2011-04-19T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:39:48","slug":"luke-bryan-sometimes-things-come-in-their-own-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/04\/luke-bryan-sometimes-things-come-in-their-own-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan – Sometimes things come in their own time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes good things come in their own time. For country singer Luke Bryan, success came a little late, but he\u2019s okay with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of taken a while, but it\u2019s all come at the right time,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cYou can have things happen too fast and not be altogether prepared for it. I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to have anything happen faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryan, a native of Leesburg near Albany, will be in Savannah April 17 as the opening act of Tim McGraw\u2019s \u201cEmotional Traffic Tour,\u201d which also will feature The Band Perry. Bryan discovered music as a teenager when his parents gave him a guitar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was 14 or 15 when I started singing in choir and youth groups,\u201d he said. \u201cI used to do a lot of plays in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

After high school graduation, Bryan planned to move to Nashville to launch a music career, when his family was struck by tragedy. His older brother, Chris, was killed in a traffic accident even as Bryan packed his car to leave.<\/p>\n

Instead of moving to Nashville, Bryan enrolled in Georgia Southern University at Statesboro. \u201cI sang with groups all through college,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get repeat customers and repeat fans, you know at least you\u2019re doing things right because people are coming back to hear you,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cAll through college, I felt ours was one of the best bands.\u201d<\/p>\n

After college, Bryan worked at his father\u2019s agriculture and fertilizer business for a time. \u201cI wasn\u2019t very happy,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized it was time for me to move to Nashville. Looking back, it was certainly the best thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2001, Bryan finally made the big move and within two months, had landed a deal as a songwriter. At the time his debut single was released in 2007, singer Billy Currington, a native of Rincon, was climbing the charts with \u201cGood Directions,\u201d which Bryan wrote.<\/p>\n

In 2006, he married and today Bryan and his wife, Carolyn, have two sons, Bo and Tate. \u201cIt gives me something good to go home to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His debut single, \u201cAll My Friends Say,\u201d became a Top 5 single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His debut album, \u201cI\u2019ll Stay Me,\u201d was released on Capitol Records that same year, and his latest album is \u201cDoin\u2019 My Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards Bryan has received include the Academy of Country Music\u2019s Top New Artist and Top New Solo Vocalist in 2010. He received Country Music Television\u2019s USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year for \u201cI Do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since he released his first album, Bryan had Top Ten hits with \u201cAll My Friends Say\u201d and \u201cCountry Man,\u201d followed by three back-to-back No. 1 songs, \u201cDo I,\u201d \u201cRain Is A Good Thing\u201d and \u201cSomeone Else Calling You Baby.\u201d All five have gone gold.<\/p>\n

The Bryan family experienced tragedy again in 2007, when his older sister, Kelly, died at the age of 39. Bryan has raised money for several causes, including St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In honor of his brother and sister, he raised money for the Leesburg YMCA by performing with some fellow Nashville songwriters.<\/p>\n

McGraw is one of Bryan\u2019s heroes, and he is excited to be touring with him. In Savannah, fans will hear Bryan\u2019s new single, \u201cCountry Girl, Shake It for Me,\u201d and some songs from the new album he is working on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeday, I hope to be where Tim McGraw is, headlining all the shows, up for the big records, still making new fans and enjoying the fans I already have,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cI just want to continue to do what I love, which is play music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Success has finally arrived, but Bryan\u2019s life hasn\u2019t changed. \u201cI still kind of go around and do the same things I love to do, although I\u2019m a lot busier than I used to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s a different kind of busy,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cInstead of touring from a van, it\u2019s a nice tour bus. Life is good and things are good, and it\u2019s hard to keep a smile off my face.\u201d (Linda Sickler and Best Country Singers.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes good things come in their own time. For country singer Luke Bryan, success came a little late, but he\u2019s okay with that. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of taken a while, but it\u2019s all come at the right time,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cYou can have things happen too fast and not be altogether prepared for it. I wouldn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}