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Lee Brice's New Album Inspired by Bruno Mars

09/15/2014
. (Radio.com) There's are some very good reasons that Lee Brice titled his new album I Don't Dance. For starters, it's a great song. It's also very personal - he wrote it for his wife (then his fianc�e) and planned to make his first public performance of that song during the first dance at their wedding (he flubbed that�oops). The song also, though, marked the turning point for the record, which he'd been working on for a while by that point.

"I had a lot of songs already planned" for the album, Brice told Radio.com. "But I didn't know exactly what the whole feeling was going to be until I wrote 'I Don't Dance.' I felt like it said, 'This is who I am right now for this album space.'"

The song "I Don't Dance" also represented some of the musical diversity that has always been a part of his life-and which is clearly exhibited on this album as well.

"I love all kinds of music, and most people do," Brice said. "I love R&B, I love rock, I love blues and bluegrass." So on his new album, "all of that stuff I wanted to show."

Brice mentions one album that was a particular inspiration, Bruno Mars' 2012 release Unorthodox Jukebox. "He took classic sounds and mixed them in with new, hip, innovative stuff. And I wanted to do that. I love an old-school steel guitar, 'cuz I'm a country man. But I also hear some stuff in my head that's not quite so classic country. So I wanted to be able to melt all that together."

Brice also admits that he's "kind of a dramatic person" and so likes that element in his music as well. Read more here.

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