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Parker McCollum on Achieving Country Stardom While Honoring His Iconoclastic Texas Heroes: ‘I Was Never Gonna Go Write Pickup Truck and Beer Songs’
Country star Parker McCollum has a self-titled new album out. He talks about how he has topped the charts without abandoning his Texas influences.
It’s certainly helped and it’s not a bad thing at all, but it’s never my intention.” Specifically, you won’t hear him adopting any of the most familiar modern tropes: “I was never gonna go write pickup truck and beer songs.” (Liddell’s wife, Lee Ann Womack, makes a vocal cameo on the album, as does daughter Aubrie Sellers, who has joined McCollum’s touring band as a backing vocalist.) On a visit to Los Angeles earlier this week, McCollum sat down with Variety to discuss this impressive new album, where he picked up his love of artists like Chris Knight, Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark, and how he’s fine if going just a bit left of center with the self-titled effort does or doesn’t keep him topping the charts.=
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