Lee Brice is an easy guy to place in a specific genre. While the “I Don’t Dance” crooner has written successful songs for the likes of Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw, the “singer/songwriter” label just doesn’t quite cover his success. The South Carolina native is undeniably a Country star — maybe even a Country legend in the making. Bands like Florida Georgia Line and guys like Jason Aldean can’t go three chords without talking about drinking or cruising, and you rarely find the same twang that filled the airwaves even just 30 years ago. They rely on Country tropes while singing something more aligned with Rock, all for the sake of attempting to nab the next “crossover hit.” But Brice’s collection of songs all sound exactly like the kind of music longtime Country fans have been missing.
Brice’s first real introduction to massive radio success came in 2009 when “Love Like Crazy” landed on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in the fall and stayed there through the summer of 2010 until the single finally found its way into the Top 10. It stayed on the charts into September 2010, breaking Eddy Arnold’s record for the longest-charting song in Hot Country Songs’ history. The life-lesson-wrapped-up-like-a-Country-song solidified Brice’s place as part of Country radio’s go-to crowd pleasers.
His rise continued with the next album, Hard 2 Love, which saw singles “A Woman Like You” (a sweet but silly love song in line with Brad Paisley’s style) and “Hard to Love.” The kicker from that album was “I Drive Your Truck,” which took a swing at paying tribute to a brother lost in the war. This is America, so it should come as no surprise that the song and its sentiment left Brice with another massive hit.
Fast forward a few more years and a few more big hits and you’ll find Brice tackling another favorite topic of Country songs — fatherhood. Full of good old boy clichés, lessons for youngins and enough heart to make you believe he wrote the song for his own two sons (he doesn’t actually have songwriting credits on this one), “Boy” is sure to be another "greatest hit" for the singer. Brice tweeted the song had already passed 15 million views on YouTube.
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