Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

We stepped away from Sunday today on NBC for the last couple of weeks while the network

carried coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

But we are back and back in style, if I do say so myself, with one of the biggest stars,

not just in country music, but in all of music.

Luke Bryan, Luke already had risen to the top of the country game with number one hits,

entertainer of the year awards selling out football stadiums across the country.

When he took a job in 2017 as a judge on American Idol, sitting alongside Lionel Richie and

Katie Perry and growing his audience and his appeal even more, he's one of the great guys

and he invited me down to Nashville to sit and talk with him in a studio called Ocean

Way that sits along the famed Music Row.

It's a place where he's recorded some of his albums.

It's one of the little houses and in fact this one Ocean Way is a converted church that's

sit along the street if you've never been there.

It's really cool just to drive up and down and see all these little houses where music

history has been made and some of the most famous songs in the history of music have been

recorded.

We got together to talk about his new docuseries called My Dirt Road Diary.

That's also the title of one of his songs which traces his rise from the peanut farms

of South Georgia, Leesburg, Georgia to be exact to the top of the music world.

You know about his success.

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