"I can look at my last record and the record before and go 'that was the coolest thing I've ever done.' Even if I write a song, I 'I wanna write a better song today than I did yesterday.'" "My goal always is 'I wanna make this record better than anything we've ever done,'" Brice said. The album boasts no-nonsense country-rock ("If You"), embraces toe-tapping pop hooks ("Soul"), delivers touching mid-tempo tunes described by the singer as "the most quintessential Lee Brice" ("Memory I Don't Mess With") and tackles the loss of a love one buried too soon ("Save The Roses"). 1 single releases for Brice, with the latter holding a three-week residency at the top Billboard's Country Airplay chart.
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The records boasts "I Hope You're Happy Now" and "One Of Them Girls," back-to-back No. This month, Brice released "Hey World," his 15-song follow-up to 2017's gold-certified self-titled album. But, hey, maybe we'll get to do it again." As I watched it, as I'm happy for, it would of been nice to show what I do. No.2, I hadn't really performed on the show before. "There truly was a little sadness in my heart," Brice said. "So maybe I had a little fever, but I felt fine."Īnd he experienced mixed emotions watching Pearce and Kelley at the awards show that week, he said. "That night, Sunday night, I had some of those aches and pains and I woke up early, early, early Monday morning kind of in some sweat," Brice said. He "would've never even taken the test" if it weren't for show protocol, because Brice said he showed zero symptoms headed into his early November CMA Awards rehearsal.īut Brice felt mild symptoms in the days after his test result - a little cold and temporary loss of smell, he said. Awards in quarantineīrice exited self-quarantine late last week, in time to produce a livestream concert to celebrate his "Hey World" release. In a new interview, Brice talks "Hey World" and stay-at-home CMA Awards win. Now out of isolation and riding a wave of his stay-at-home CMA Award win, Brice debuts "Hey World," his fifth full-length album out last week via Curb Records.
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It was kind of sad, watching it on TV not being there, but I was happy for her." "Most of it was just about Carly," Brice said. More: CMA Awards: Carly Pearce duets with Charles Kelley after Lee Brice tests positive for COVID-19 The longtime Nashville songwriter retreated to his family barn, where he watched the show and, earlier in the day, earned his first CMA Award - Musical Event of the Year for "I Hope You're Happy Now." He tested positive for COVID-19, the first in a handful of artists to exit the 2020 show due to virus exposure.īrice's performance - the chart-topping "I Hope You're Happy Now" duet with Carly Pearce - went on with Lady A singer Charles Kelley stepping in for the pre-taped duet. A few hours before his rehearsal at the CMA Awards, Lee Brice learned he would spend country music's self-described "biggest night" in self-quarantine.