Albums : Luke Bryan : Spring Break...Here To Party

Albums : Luke Bryan : Spring Break...Here To Party

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Who is Luke Bryan?
Singer and songwriter Luke Bryan comes by his country influences naturally: he grew up in Leesburg, Georgia, a small town 100 miles from the Alabama border where his father grew peanuts and sold fertilizer for a living. Bryan helped his family work the farm when he was young, but in his early teens he developed a passion for country music, picking up his influences from his parents' record collection, listening to the likes of George Strait, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson, and Merle Haggard. When he was 14, his folks bought him his first guitar, and a year later his playing and singing were strong enough that he started sitting in with local bands at a club featuring live country music. At 16, Bryan starting writing songs with the help of a pair of local tunesmiths who had enjoyed some success in Nashville, and he planned to head to Music City to try his luck after graduating from high school until his brother died in an auto accident. Wanting to offer emotional support to his family, Bryan opted to attend Georgia Southern University instead, though he didn't give up music; he continued writing songs, formed a band, and was playing gigs on campus or at nearby watering holes most weekends while pursuing his studies. He recorded a self-released album, which he sold at shows during this period, but was reluctant to take the plunge and devote himself to music full-time until he returned home to work in the family business after receiving his degree. Bryan's dad, confident of his son's talent, made him an offer: he could either move to Nashville or be fired. In the early fall of 2001, Bryan pulled up stakes and relocated to Nashville, where his heartfelt songs of country life earned him a contract with one of the city's many publishing houses. In his free time, Bryan continued to perform at local clubs, and after an A&R man from Capitol Records saw him perform a set of his original material, he was given a record deal. Capitol released Bryan's first widely distributed album, I'll Stay Me, in the summer of 2007, following it with Doin' My Thing in 2009. Doin' My Thing peaked at number two on the country charts — and at number six on the Top 200 — and spawned two number one singles in "Rain Is a Good Thing" and "Someone Else Calling You Baby," with "Do I" hitting number two. Bryan returned with his third album, Tailgates & Tanlines, in the summer of 2011, its release being preceded by the single "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)." That single was the first of four Top Five Country singles pulled from the album: "I Dont' Want This Night to End" and "Drunk on You" both hit number one, while "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" peaked at number three. This success kept Tailgates & Tanlines in the charts well into 2012, and Bryan supported the record with steady touring. Early in 2013, Bryan compiled the four spring break-themed EPs he had released since 2009 as the album Spring Break...Here to Party.

Spring Break...Here To Party review
Over the past four years Luke Bryan has cultivated the youthful part of his fan base with seasonal collections of "Spring Break" party music Digital EPs. With enough tracks to fill a whole album, this year Luke has released Spring Break: Here To Party, a compilation of the best of his four EPs with a couple new tracks included on the record.

"Suntan City" (from EP #4 of the same name) begins the record and it finds Luke happily singing about 'coconut covered girls' and carefree times 'sitting pretty in Suntan City with a cold one in my hand." "Buzzkill" is one of the new tracks on this EP and it's already been treated to a music video [watch here] and could be a radio single if Luke wanted to release it as it's as good as anything he's released on other records. Anyone who has left a relationship only to have that relationship follow them around will certainly relate to the mid-tempo tune's lyrics.

"If You Ain't Here To Party" is another song that could be a 2013 summer jam if Luke and his label Capitol wanted to release it to radio while "Wild Weekend" is equally as fun. And that's clearly what Spring Break...Here To Party is all about. It's not a record with deep songs but that doesn't mean that some of them won't be meaningful to listeners like "You Don't Know Jack" or "Do I" from Luke's regular records. Instead, they're just different songs with similar themes, like "Shake The Sand," the other 'new' song on the record, a song that recalls the 1980s Country/Soul melodies of Eddie Rabbitt.

The creation of these Spring Break collections was a stroke of genius for Luke Bryan - and Capitol Nashville - as it gave his fans new out-of-traditional-album-cycle music. The songs here may have at one point been 'also rans' from his regular records (at least the oldest songs here were at one point) but they've now turned into a nice little grouping of seasonal, funk non-threatening party songs that serve as the soundtrack to Spring Break and parties for thousands of fans young and old alike.


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