Before he became the country's mononymous, all-caps rock-an-roll rebel, Michael Hardy was just a music fan from a small town in Mississippi. And even though he grew up a country boy, he didn’t much care for country music. That is, until a certain barroom anthem changed everything.
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Speaking on the Broken Record Podcast earlier this week, HARDY shared how he became a country music fan, citing Brad Paisley as the catalyst.
“It just didn’t appeal to me,” he said, speaking of the golden age of country, when Wynonna, George, Alan, and Garth dominated the airwaves. The subject matter, he added, felt like “honky-tonk country” was more suited to adults, not connecting with him as a teenager.
“It just didn’t resonate with me,” he said before name-dropping Brooks & Dunn, whom he now finds appreciation for. “Now I go back and I’m like, ‘This music is awesome.’ But as a 16-year-old kid, I don’t know anything about ‘Boot Scootin’ Boogie.’”
The shift came with one song in particular: Brad Paisley’s 2002 hit “I’m Gonna Miss Her,” a tongue-in-cheek ditty about a man choosing fishing over romance.
“That’s some sh-t I would do,” he said. “Especially as a teenager. And that’s when I started getting into country. The lyrics got a little more clever, and it just appealed to people that grew up in the country. I feel like that was not a thing in the ’90s. There wasn’t a lot of ‘Country Boy Can Survive’-type stuff in the ’90s.”
Now one of Nashville’s most in-demand singer-songwriters, HARDY has built a resume stacked with No. 1’s (“One Beer,” “Favorite Country Song,” “Truck Bed”) and hit collaborations, including Morgan Wallen (“Up Down,” “Sand in My Boots”), Cody Johnson (“How Do You Sleep at Night”), and Post Maloneand Luke Combs (“Missin’ You Like This”).
With five Academy of Country Music Awards and two Country Music Association wins, the genre-defying hitmaker has firmly established himself as one of country’s defining modern voices.
Today, the Nashville rocker is on tour through October. Dates and ticket information are available at his official website. Book you a show. Because it's not impossible to imagine country music without HARDY. But why would you want to?
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