Luke Bryan - Country Song Came on Tour

With his easygoing, guy-next-door charm, Luke Bryan is one of the defining figures of bro-country, the strand of party-hearty music that dominated mainstream country in the 2010s. Bryan embodies the sweeter, friendlier side of bro-country. He sings about trucks, country girls, beer, and the outdoors — the prevalent themes of his subgenre — and he does it to a big, bright beat that borrows from pop and rock but conveys 21st century country: music made for suburbs and sports bars, not backwoods honk tonks. All these elements were in place on Bryan’s earliest hits “All My Friends Say,” “Rain Is a Good Thing,” and “Country Girl (Shake It for Me),” but as he began to have a steady string of Billboard Country Airplay hits in the early 2010s, he emphasized his sentimental side, evident on such slow-burners as “Drink a Beer” and “Play It Again,” while underscoring his inviting nature with such songs as “Most People Are Good.”

Bryan’s good nature helped ease him into the pop mainstream, and he appeared as an advisor on The Voice during a mid-2010s run, followed by a role as a judge on American Idol. His presence on television helped keep him at the top of the country charts into the 2020s, with his Born Here Live Here Die Here generating no less than five number one Billboard Country Airplay hits. Led by its title track, he issued the compilation album Prayin’ in a Deer Stand, at the end of 2022. Bryan continued to notch hits with songs like “But I Got a Beer in My Hand” and “Country On,” which were later rolled into his eighth studio LP, Mind of a Country Boy. – AllMusic.com