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#499 - Luke Bryan on Being a Victim of His Own Success with Songs + The First Time He Got the Call to Be Host on American Idol + The Most Important Song of His Career

Bobbycast

Nashville Podcast Network

Music, Music Interviews

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with country music superstar Luke Bryan. Luke talks about how passing on songs that eventually became hits was because he fell victim to his own success and got in his own head. Bobby also asked Luke which song is the most important and impactful of his career. Plus, Luke discussed being on American Idol for his 8th season and went back in time to the first call he ever got from the network about potentially hosting! 

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0:00.0

In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.

0:04.8

Seven thousand bodies out there or more.

0:08.5

A forgotten asylum cemetery.

0:10.6

It was my family's mystery.

0:13.0

Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.

0:20.2

I'm Larison Campbell, and this is Under Yazoo Clay.

0:24.2

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:32.8

This is John Cameron Mitchell, and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation Island,

0:39.3

stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled.

0:46.0

In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes.

0:49.4

But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back.

0:54.5

Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies like bad touch football, anti-racism spin class,

1:01.8

and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the cancel to confront their worst impulses.

1:08.2

But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.

1:12.5

Karen, where have you brought us?

1:15.8

Cancellation Island, where a second chance might just be your last.

1:21.3

Listen to Cancellation Island on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

1:26.9

podcasts.

1:35.8

45 years ago, a Virginia soul band called The Edge of Daybreak recorded their debut album,

1:43.2

behind bars. Record collectors consider it a masterpiece. The band's surviving members are long out of prison, but they say they have some

1:45.7

unfinished business.

1:47.0

They're at the daybreak, eyes of love were supposed to been falling up without another

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