"You do get blemishes and you can't mix it perfectly, but you do get that thing about live," Brice told a group of journalists at a listening event in June. Jerrod Niemann co-wrote one of the deluxe-edition tracks, Closer.īrice brings a wide range of sounds to I Don't Dance, most notably live-in-the-studio recordings like the rapid-fire story song Sirens, which features Brice playing banjo, and Panama City, a gorgeous ballad that sounds like real people harmonizing around a piano than the buffed and polished spring-break record its title might suggest. Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney worked with him on Always the Only One, and Thomas Rhett co-wrote Girls in Bikinis. This is as good as I can do putting a record together right now."Īs an artist who's also an in-demand writing partner, Brice has some high-profile collaborators on I Don't Dance. "Now, I can show people where I've been personally and musically in the past two years of my life," the former Clemson University linebacker recently told The Tennessean. Now, he says, he's singing about what he's living. On previous albums, he often pulled material from his older songwriting catalog.
Just listen to the album's first song, I Don't Dance, written to be played at his wedding last year.Īs an album, I Don't Dance brings Brice the recording artist even with Brice the songwriter. And nobody in Nashville writes a love song like Brice. When Brice writes a party tune - and there are plenty on I Don't Dance - there's more going on than just a party. He also co-wrote all three songs on the deluxe edition of the album. 9 on Curb Records, and wrote 10 of the album's 13 songs, including the title track, his most recent No. But when it came to his own biggest singles - A Woman Like You, Hard to Love and I Drive Your Truck - those came from other writers' pens.īrice finally starts putting everything together on his third album, I Don't Dance, premiering at USA TODAY. He certainly has had hits writing songs for other people - Garth Brooks' More Than a Memory, Tim McGraw's Still, the Eli Young Band's Crazy Girl. Here's the weird thing about Lee Brice: He's one of the finest singer-songwriters country music has to offer right now, but he hasn't written his biggest hits.
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