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Kane Brown Marks Five Years Since Debut EP

It’s been five years this month (June) since the release of Kane Brown’s debut EP, Closer, and as Brown told us, it’s been a sweet ride. Kane said, “I feel…

Kane Brown Marks Five Years Since Debut EP

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It's been five years this month (June) since the release of Kane Brown's debut EP, Closer, and as Brown told us, it's been a sweet ride.

Kane said, "I feel like the last, you know, five years everything’s been a high point. We just keep moving forward and it’s been a whirlwind. I haven’t really gotten to look back on anything until the other day I actually finally got to take everything in for the first time and it’s just crazy."

He adds, "But, we just got to keep moving forward and don’t look back."

Brown raised funds via Kickstarter to produce the six-song EP, which he recorded in Nashville at the home studio of Noah Henson, guitarist for Brantley Gilbert.

Closer, was released on June 2, 2015. Kane's debut single from the project was a song called "Don't Go City on Me" and it reached number 43 on the Country Digital Songs chart.

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.