The Nice American Bar Scene is right here. Zach Bryan is celebrating Independence Day by releasing his fifth album, lower than a 12 months after the final one. The person doesn’t cease.
Final summer time, the famous person alt-country singer-songwriter launched his self-titled LP, which spawned his first #1 hit, the Kacey Musgraves duet “I Keep in mind Every part.” He’s since saved up a busy tour schedule, bringing his rousing reside present throughout America (I caught it final month — nice expertise!), dropped the Boys Of Religion EP, launched a video starring Matthew McConaughey, been by means of an arrest and a automotive wreck, and welcomed figures like Sexyy Crimson and the “Hawk Tuah” lady to the stage, amongst plenty of different exercise.
Someway, he had time to make a brand new 19-song album throughout that span. The Nice American Bar Scene contains Bryan’s current singles, the transcendent “Pink Skies” and the Noeline Hoffman collab “Purple Fuel.” It additionally has options from some enormous names, headlined by none apart from Bruce Springsteen, who not too long ago carried out with Bryan in Brooklyn. Springsteen friends on the “I’m On Fireplace”-esque “Sandpaper,” which Bryan has been performing reside these days. John Mayer, who additionally not too long ago carried out with Bryan, reveals up on “Higher Days,” whereas Bryan’s fellow Oklahoman John Moreland seems on “Memphis; The Blues.” And on “Bass Boat,” Bryan’s shut good friend Morgan Meinhart, who beforehand sang on the 2022 triple album American Heartbreak, lends some uncredited backing vocals.
Like all Zach Bryan albums, The Nice American Bar Scene is quite a bit to soak up, and you may take all of it in beneath.
The again up on ‘Bass Boat’ is my photographer, Louie Good’s fiancé Morgan Meinhart, she was on American Heartbreak with me as effectively and these two persons are my household and my individuals.It’s an honor to make music with individuals who have been round ceaselessly in your life
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) July 4, 2024
@ thegreatamericanbarscene IS UP AND OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS ON INSTAGRAM, I’LL BE RUNNING IT ALL YEAR
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) July 3, 2024
The Nice American Bar Scene is out now on Warner. Bryan is accepting submissions for his @thegreatamericanbarscene account on Instagram, which at the moment options a few of Bryan’s personal footage from bars throughout America.