Luke Bryan releases his new album, What Makes You Country, on Friday (December 8th). The album contains 15 songs, seven of them co-written by Luke, including the title track.
“I just try to go in the studio and record music that makes me happy, makes me feel something, makes me emotional at times, songs that I visualize my crowd reacting to,” says Luke. “I just try to go into albums believing in the songs, confident in the songs and controlling what I control. I can control how hard did I write, how many songs did I write and how many songs did I listen to and did I really do the best job I could at singing them and recording them. I couldn’t be happier with all of those aspects of this record.”
Luke is poised to hit the top of the country charts with his latest release “Light It Up,” which was written by Luke and Old Dominion member Brad Tursi.
Luke made Billboard chart history as the only artist in the 27-year history of the Billboard Country Airplay chart to garner six No. 1 singles from one album. Luke’s tailgates & tanlines and Crash My Party albums both generated five No. 1 singles.
Catch Luke on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday. He’ll perform the title track of his new album, What Makes You Country. He will also perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday (December 12th).
What Makes You Country track list:
- What Makes You Country – Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley
- Out Of Nowhere Girl – Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley
- Light It Up – Luke Bryan, Brad Tursi
- Most People Are Good – David Frasier, Ed Hill, Josh Kear
- Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset – Zach Crowell, Ryan Hurd, Chase McGill
- Bad Lovers – Justin Wilson, Dallas Davidson, Kyle Fishman
- Drinking Again – David Lee Murphy, Brad Warren, Brett Warren
- Land Of A Million Songs – Luke Bryan, Jeff Stevens, Jody Stevens
- Like You Say You Do – Luke Bryan, Michael Carter, Ashley Gorley
- Hooked On It – Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson, David Lee Murphy
- She’s A Hot One – Michael Carter, Chase McGill
- Hungover In A Hotel Room – Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear
- Pick It Up – Luke Bryan, Rodney Clawson, Matthew Dragstrem
- Driving This Thing – Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, Jody Stevens
- Win Life – Rodney Clawson, Ross Copperman, Nicolle Galyon
Audio / Luke Bryan says he just goes into the studio to make music that affects him.
DownloadLuke Bryan (What Makes You Country) 1 OC: …approached it. :33
“You always feel pressure making albums, and that’s what you sign up for is to try to outdo each album, but I feel like What Makes You Country, this album is a little more overall country; kind of a throwback back to my roots. But with me, I just try to go in the studio and record music that makes me happy, makes me feel something, makes me emotional at times, songs that I visualize my crowd reacting to. And that’s how I’ve always approached it.”
Audio / Luke Bryan says he couldn’t be happier with his new album, What Makes You Country.
DownloadLuke Bryan (What Makes You Country) 2 OC: …this record. :31
“You can never go into an album saying well I’m going to record an album that’s going to beat my last album and have this many number ones or whatever. I just try to go into albums believing in the songs, confident in the songs and controlling what I control. I can control how hard did I write, how many songs did I write and how many songs did I listen to and did I really do the best job I could at singing them and recording them. I couldn’t be happier with all of those aspects of this record.”
