{"id":11299,"date":"2013-12-12T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=11299"},"modified":"2013-12-12T00:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:41:48","slug":"brett-eldredge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/12\/brett-eldredge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Eldredge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11300\" alt=\"brett-eldredge-Issue-No30\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brett-eldredge-Issue-No30.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brett-eldredge-Issue-No30.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brett-eldredge-Issue-No30-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>Brett Eldredge<\/h1>\n<p>HOMETOWN: Paris, Ill.<\/p>\n<p>INFLUENCES: Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles,\u00a0Ronnie Dunn<\/p>\n<p>ALBUM: <i>Bring You Back<\/i>, out now<\/p>\n<p>WEBSITE: bretteldredge.com<\/p>\n<p>Brett Eldredge grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Ronnie Dunn. \u201cI always gravitated toward big voices, because as a kid I had this big voice coming out of me,\u201d he says. \u201cI got hooked on the stories singers would tell through their voice.\u201d Eldredge\u2019s parents bought him a guitar and a wireless mic. \u201cBut I never could sit still long enough to learn it,\u201d he admits. Eventually Eldredge buckled down and began performing gigs around his hometown, which inspired a move to Nashville in 2006. He landed a recording deal, and his debut album <i>Bring You Back<\/i> features the No. 1 hit \u201cDon\u2019t Ya.\u201d \u201cThis new music is me, and it\u2019s taken every song I\u2019ve written up to this point to get to where I am,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel better about my music now than I ever have, and I can\u2019t wait for people to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Eldredge HOMETOWN: Paris, Ill. INFLUENCES: Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles,\u00a0Ronnie Dunn ALBUM: Bring You Back, out now WEBSITE: bretteldredge.com Brett Eldredge grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Ronnie Dunn. \u201cI always gravitated toward big voices, because as a kid I had this big voice coming out of me,\u201d he says. \u201cI got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[7300,3886,7299,3263,4758],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}