{"id":30028,"date":"2024-10-22T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=30028"},"modified":"2024-10-22T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T09:19:14","slug":"zach-bryan-doesnt-want-to-be-a-country-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/10\/zach-bryan-doesnt-want-to-be-a-country-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan Doesn&#8217;t Want To Be A Country Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every artist is trying to find their way into Country music, but Zach Bryan is apparently looking for a way out.<\/p>\n<p>He recently sat down for an interview with his idol, Bruce Springsteen, where they took turns asking each other questions about their careers.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very friendly chat between the two, but towards the end Zach said to Bruce&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not insulting your genre, but when I listen to your music. If you put different production to this, it&#8217;s a Country song. All of &#8217;em. And that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t want to be a Country musician.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruce said that was fascinating,&#8221; to which\u00a0 Zach responded&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a Country musician. Everyone calls me it. I want to be a songwriter. You are a quintessential songwriter . . . No one calls Bruce Springsteen a Rock musician.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that last part while drawing an imaginary box with his fingers. So, it seems like Zach doesn&#8217;t want to be boxed in, or labelled as anything.<\/p>\n<p>And to be fair, he&#8217;s already pretty distant from the Country music world. He doesn&#8217;t do the award shows and mostly keeps to himself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-_spo9cKhY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems like every artist is trying to find their way into Country music, but Zach Bryan is apparently looking for a way out.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[7469,1818,7195],"class_list":["post-30028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-rolling-stone","tag-zach-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 01:06:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/10\/zach-bryan-doesnt-want-to-be-a-country-musician\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30031,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30028\/revisions\/30031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}