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Luke Bryan: ‘The Day I Don’t Get Excited About A New Song…’

Luke Bryan is heading out on the road for his “Sunset Repeat” tour with old friends Cole Swindell and Jon Langston. As Luke told us, part of his road experience…

Luke Bryan: 'The Day I Don't Get Excited About A New Song...'
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Luke Bryan is heading out on the road for his "Sunset Repeat" tour with old friends Cole Swindell and Jon Langston.

As Luke told us, part of his road experience is about writing new music, "So many times after show in the bus, Cole's out writing, I'm out writing and hopefully we can write together. Just in that room a second ago I played Cole a new song the I had written."

Bryan continues, "That's what it's all about for me; I mean, we get so excited. The day that I don't get excited about a song and excited about watching people's reactions to it is when I need to stop doing music. So we're gonna be out there getting inspired by the crowd and writing some and huddling up am listening to our new music that we're in the studio working on."

Luke's "Sunset Repeat" tour kicks off on May 31st in New Jersey.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.