Luke stops at a studio in Nashville to visit campers at the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp. This is an LBTV you don’t want to miss. Truly an amazing day! To donate to the ACM Lifting Lives please visit www.acmliftinglives.org.

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As a special thanks to all my fans and radio friends for my 5th #1 single, “Drunk On You”, here’s the official live video version of my song. Thanks!

Kudos to Luke Bryan, who has landed his fifth career No. 1 single with “Drunk on You.” This week, the tune topped both the Country Aircheck/Mediabase and Billboard singles charts, making it the second single from his album, Tailgates & Tanlines, to reach the top.

“From the time that we released Tailgates & Tanlines and were doing ‘Drunk on You’ live, we could really see a lot of people participating and doing the ‘boom booms’ and singing along,” Luke recalls. “To have it as be a No. 1 and my fifth No. 1, and watching it really be a huge song, is so gratifying and fun for me.”

While Luke is known for his songwriting abilities, this hit was the brainchild of tunesmiths Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear. The Georgia native isn’t letting the fact that he didn’t pen the tune lessen the victory, though.

“‘Drunk On You’ was the song on the album that we really felt like was the cornerstone of the album,” he explains. “We were just making sure that we wanted to pick the right singles to get to the summertime and to get to ‘Drunk On You’.”

And pick the right songs they did, seeing as “Drunk On You” is also his third consecutive platinum-selling song, which spent four weeks as the No. 1 country digital seller.

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Luke Bryan teams up with Joe Walsh on “Life’s Been Good” during the special installment of CMT Crossroads this weekend. “Joe made me feel comfortable right off the bat. And he obviously knows those scenarios when people are quite nervous around him, and I was pretty dang nervous about all of it,” says Luke. “In the recording process of the show, we ran it a couple of times, and the second take was really good because, you know, I was much more comfortable.”

“Joe Walsh is certainly a rock-n-roll American music legend, and his music just stands alone and his voice has such a uniqueness about it that you know it’s him right when you hear it whether it’s something new he’s recorded [or] certainly one of his legendary songs. If you would’ve told me that this opportunity to do this Crossroads could’ve ever been presented to me and they were gonna recommend that I do ‘Life’s Been Good,’ life has been good, because that would’ve been my first pick.”

“You know, we came in and rehearsed, and Joe made me feel comfortable right off the bat. And he obviously knows those scenarios when people are quite nervous around him, and I was pretty dang nervous about all of it. And in the recording process of the show, we ran it a couple of times and the second take was really good because you know I was much more comfortable then…but just hearing him play the guitar and hearing the way he’s able to make the sounds come out of that guitar was pretty amazing, and it was definitely a highlight of my career.”

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By the time country star Luke Bryan is on stage and performing for more than 8,500 clamoring fans on Saturday, he will have just scratched the surface of a long tour away from home. But on the road, Bryan said he’s carrying a piece of home with him.

It’s a single peanut, on the back of his guitar pick.

“I just thought it would be cool to put it on,” Bryan said in his Georgian twang over the phone last week.

With several platinum country hits under his belt, Bryan, the son of a peanut farmer, can plan on being away from his small-town roots for a while. After his sold-out concert this weekend for the Greeley Stampede, he’s scheduled for a whopping 39 more shows through October.

It makes for a full summer, but Bryan said he manages.

“My main thing is just to try to get a good night’s sleep, work out, stay healthy. And at the end of the day, just enjoy being on stage,” Bryan said.

Being on the road actually helps with song writing, he said. In his latest album, Tailgates and Tanlines, Bryan co-wrote eight of 13 songs.

“Being out with fans is very inspiring for me,” Bryan said. “So I take all that inspiration and energy and maybe write a song from it.”

Bryan may always be a country boy at heart, but he said he tries to relate to everyone who comes to his concerts, even if it’s just by incorporating the name of the state or city in his performance.

“I try to relate to everybody a little bit, make sure my show makes everybody smile,” he said. “I don’t take anything too seriously. I just get up there and have a good ol’ time.”

A good ol’ time is what Bryan is all about — four of his five albums have a spring break theme. Bryan has a wife and two young boys, Bo and Tate, but he said spring breaks seem to immediately bring people back to a time in their life when they were just having fun.

“At the end of day, too, I am a family man,” Bryan said. “But I’m out there having a good time … As long as it keeps me young at heart, and that is what half of the battle is.”

Aside from his decorated guitar pick, Bryan said he hasn’t brought much else with him from the fields of Leesburg, Ga., although there’s probably still some peanut dust in his ears, somewhere.

That and the memory of country girls getting down to inspire one of his major singles, “Country Girl (Shake It For Me).”

“Country girls shake it pretty darn good,” Bryan said. “I can certainly vouch for that.”

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