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HARDY didn’t grow up a fan of country music and was more into metal as a teenager. However, he just listened to one country musician that turned him around and helped him fall in love with country music. This allowed him to mix metal and country and create a unique sound unlike any other.
Here is who HARDY said made him a country music fan.
Who made HARDY fall in love with country music?
HARDY grew up as a heavy metal fan and never listened to country music. Like most metal fans, he mostly dismissed country music and never cared about other forms. He said he loved rock and roll so much as a kid that he never gave any other genre a chance. With that said, HARDY said that he grew up in a small town and has those stories, which fit in well with country music.
However, that all changed when he was 17 or 18 years old and heard one country music singer that changed his outlook on the genre. HARDY said he was starting to learn about country music when he heard Eric Church. That music came from the album Chief which had a song on it called “Homeboy” that really connected with HARDY.
“It just sent kind of a chill up my spine, because it was a very good marriage between rock and roll and country and I had never heard it been represented like that,” HARDY said. He admitted that if this is what country music sounds like today, he is now a fan and wanted to make music like that. HARDY called that a cornerstone of his career.
HARDY on combining country and metal into his sound
Anyone who has listened to HARDY’s album, the mockingbird & THE CROW, knows the story. That is because the songs on the album tell the story of how he is a little country and a little metal and the lyrics both explain this as does the format of the album.
When it comes to the mockingbird & THE CROW, it is a duel-genre album. The first half of the album is HARDY’s country music. However, when the title song plays in the ninth spot, it starts off as a country music song but then transitions into a rock song at the end. The rest of the album, starting with “Sold Out,” is all metal.
The HARDY album doesn’t sound like Eric Church, but the first half fits in well with Church’s brand of country music. It is similar to how Luke Combs also credited Chruch with getting him back into country music, making the singer the reason for two of today’s top country music stars.
Does it surprise you that it was Eric Church who influenced HARDY to become a country musician? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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