Monthly Archives: August 2011

Nashville trio the Peach Pickers (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson and Ben Hayslip) joined Luke Bryan to craft the lyrics of his latest single, ‘I Don’t Want This Night to End.’ The writing team penned by the tune along with the singer on a rare day off from the road.

“We were fortunate enough to get Luke to come in and write it with us,” Akins tells Taste of Country of the day the song was written. “He’s so busy that when he comes home, he really needs to spend time with his kids and wife. The song was Ben’s title, and Luke was the one who started playing that melody.”

“You got your hands up / You’re rocking in my truck / You got the radio on / You’re singing every song / I’m set on cruise control / I’m slowly losing hold / Of everything I got / You’re looking so damn hot / And I don’t know what road we’re on or where we’ve been / From staring at you / Girl, all I know is I don’t want this night to end,” they wrote in the lyrics of the chorus.

“A lot of the times we get artists we write with who don’t know what they want to say,” says Akins. “Luke knows. He’ll automatically tell you if it’s not for him or say it’s perfect for him.”

“And then he’ll come at us with a line,” adds Davidson.

“Girl, I know I don’t know you / But your pretty little eyes so blue / Are pulling me in / Like the moon on your skin / I’m so glad you trusted me, just slide up on this dusty seat / And let your hair down / And get outta town,” Bryan sings in the opening lyrics.

“Luke is just a great writer,” notes Hayslip. “That’s the best thing about writing with Luke.”

Bryan’s previous hit, ‘Country Girl (Shake It for Me),’ is a song that the singer co-wrote with Davidson. ‘I Don’t Want This Night to End’ is the second single off Bryan’s latest album, ‘Tailgates and Tanlines,’ which hit stores on August 9.

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Luke Bryan so enjoyed having his Tailgates & Tanlines at No. 1 on theBillboard country albums chart, he’s stayed there for a second week.

Across the alley on the country songs chart, Dierks Bentley’s ”Am I the Only One” dislodges Lady Antebellum’s ”Just a Kiss” from the top bunk where it had rested for the past two weeks.

Bryan, Bentley and Lady A are all Capitol acts and capital ones as well.

The week’s highest-debuting album is the Eli Young Band’s Life at Best. It checks in at No. 3 on first-period sales of 34,957 copies, as counted by Nielsen SoundScan.

The other new CDs are actor Jeff Bridges’ self-titled collection (No. 10), Guy Clark’s Songs and Stories (No. 29) and Daniel O’Donnell’s Live From Nashville(No. 62).

Little Big Town’s The Reason Why and the eponymous The Secret Sisters return to the chart at No. 64 and No. 68, respectively.

We count three new songs: Lady Antebellum’s “We Owned the Night” (No. 40), Casey James’ “Let’s Don’t Call It a Night” (No. 57) and the Zac Brown Band’s “Keep Me in Mind” (No. 59).

The remaining three Top 5 albums this week are Jason Aldean’s My Kinda Party (No. 2), Eric Church’s Chief (No. 4) and Blake Shelton’s Red River Blue (No. 5).

The No. 2 through No. 5 songs, in descending order, are Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood’s ”Remind Me,” Lady A’s “Just a Kiss,” Jake Owen’s ”Barefoot Blue Jean Night” and Bryan’s ”Country Girl (Shake It for Me).”

For those of you who thrive on finding form in chaos, we are pleased to report there are currently four songs on the chart with the word “night” in their titles, three that allude to fishing and five that have titles of only one word. Make of this what you will.

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We’ve got a ton of fans putting up videos of all kinds of things with “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)”. We’ve got line dances, covers, babies shakin’ it, and more. See if someone you know made our compilation.

WEST MEAD TOWNSHIP — Fans attending Tuesday night’s Easton Corbin and Luke Bryan show at the 66th annual Crawford Country Fair were in store for some country music — and a trio Stoneboro teens fit the country part exactly.

Decked out in cowboy hats and cowboy boots, 15-year-olds Rachel McKean, Katie McClearn and Samantha Dailey were ready to hear two of their favorite country musicians perform.

“We love country music,” McClearn said, and Bryan is “definitely my favorite.”

McClearn is also a big Corbin fan, saying that it “is kind of convenient that they are both here” since she was definitely going to enjoy both of the night’s acts.

McKean, McClearn and Dailey weren’t the only ones excited to see Bryan and Corbin on stage Tuesday night. Two Erie residents, Erica Grode, 23, and Lisa Tuzynski, 24, were wearing shirts they made last winter when they saw Bryan open for Rascall Flatts at the Erie Civic Center in February.

Each donning a letter from Bryan’s first name, Grode was in charge of the “L,” and Tuzynski was wearing a “U.” Their friends — Lauren Michalski, who was the “K,” and Megan Mitchell, the “E” — were lucky enough to attend a meet-and-greet with Bryan prior to the show.

Each of the girls had their favorite Bryan lyrics, or “something catchy,” as they said, on the back of their shirts.

“We are city girls, but we like country things,” so this concert was perfect for them, Grode said. “We are obsessed with country.”

As they entered the general admission area in front of the stage, Grode and Tuzynski hoped Bryan would notice they were back with their specialized shirts, citing that he looked their way in February.

Corbin, whose promoters say his style is “unapologetically country,” closed his set with his big hit, “Roll With It.” Then Bryan hit the stage to the loudest cheers of the night to that point.

Bryan opened with “Country Man,” a Top 10 country charts hit which comes from his 2007 debut album “I’ll Stay Me.” He followed with “What Country Is,” featured on his second album, “Doin’ My Thing,” which has sold more than a half-million copies.

Tuesday’s crowd, predominantly female, packed the grandstands and general admission area in front of the fair stage. In all, more than 7,400 paid to watch and hear Corbin and Bryan.

And at least a few also wanted to get an up close and personal look at the two country rockers.

“(Bryan’s) easy on the eyes, so that doesn’t hurt,” Tuzynski said with a smile.

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