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Lee Brice reflects on his path to the country music big leagues. Carrie Underwood is not into “mushy-gushy” love songs. Rosanne Cash invites people around the world to the “Land of Dreams.” Marty Stuart talks about the difference between “heart and chart.” CMA Music Festival makes getting autographs easier and [...]
Editor’s note: Watch Lee Brice‘s performances on CMT’s Live in Nashville. NEW YORK — Lee Brice may be one of the hottest names in Nashville right now, with a hit debut album (2010′s Love Like Crazy) under his belt and a No. 1 single (“A Woman Like You”) already racked [...]
Lee Brice‘s Hard 2 Love and Kip Moore’s Up All Night are among the new country albums released Tuesday (April 24). Brice’s album includes the gold-certified “A Woman Like You,” while Moore’s album features “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck,” also certified gold by the RIAA for 500,000 digital downloads. Other new [...]
Lee Brice‘s single, “A Woman Like You,” has reached gold status for 500,000 digital downloads. The track is the lead single from Brice’s upcoming album, Hard 2 Love, due April 24 on Curb Records. The song reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s country airplay chart earlier this month. Brice’s next single [...]
Lee Brice, Montgomery Gentry and Craig Morgan are among the performers announced for the CMA Music Festival’s free concerts at downtown Nashville’s Riverfront Park. Montgomery Gentry will kick off the series on June 7 at 10 a.m. This will be the duo’s first appearance at the festival since 2009. The [...]
Biography
Country singer and songwriter Lee Brice walks a path between traditional honky tonk sounds and contemporary rock & roll; as Brice puts it, his music sounds like what would happen if Hank Williams, Jr. and John Mayer had a love child. Brice was born in small Sumter, S.C., where he was raised on the gospel songs his family would sing in church. At the age of seven, Brice began learning the piano, and at ten he started writing his own songs, soaking up the influences of his father’s country LPs by Alabama and the Oak Ridge Boys. It wasn’t until Brice enrolled in high school (where he won the school talent contest three years in a row) that he was exposed to rock & roll, and he began developing a taste for a broader variety of music; he also found a role model in chart-topping Nashville star Garth Brooks.
Brice had a talent for football, and he attended Clemson University on a gridiron scholarship, but when an arm injury spoiled his ability to pass the ball, Brice decided that music rather than civil engineering was where his true passion lay, and he moved to Nashville on the advice of Doug Johnson, who would sign Brice to a publishing contract when he became an A&R man at Curb Records. Some of Brice’s songs were recorded by Jason Aldean, Cowboy Crush and Keith Gattis, and he received a major career boost in 2007 when Garth Brooks recorded his song “More Than a Memory” as one of four new tunes appearing on Ultimate Hits, a career-spanning compilation that featured Brooks’ first new recordings since 2001.
Signed to a Curb recording contract, Brice charted a string of singles beginning in 2007 with “She Ain’t Right,” followed by “Happy Endings” and “Upper Middle Class White Trash.” As an artist, his breakthrough came when “Love Like Crazy” was released in September 2009. With a slow but consistent build at country radio, the single eventually peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s country songs chart. Spending a total of 56 weeks on the country songs chart, the track made history by breaking Eddy Arnold’s 54-week stay on the chart with “Bouquet of Roses,” which debuted in May 1948.
Brice’s Curb debut album, Love Like Crazy, was released in 2010. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi