{"id":7468,"date":"2012-09-24T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:06:19","slug":"florida-georgia-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/florida-georgia-line\/","title":{"rendered":"FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7469\" title=\"FLORIDA-GEORGIA-LINE-JulyAugust-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FLORIDA-GEORGIA-LINE-JulyAugust-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FLORIDA-GEORGIA-LINE-JulyAugust-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FLORIDA-GEORGIA-LINE-JulyAugust-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Monroe, Ga. (Tyler Hubbard);\u00a0Ormond Beach, Fla. (Brian Kelley)<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lil Wayne,\u00a0Garth Brooks<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>It\u2019z Just What We Do <\/em>EP, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> floridageorgialine.com<\/p>\n<p>Country rock duo Florida Georgia Line\u2014Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley\u2014has made an auspicious start for a new act. The duo, who began performing and writing songs together while attending Nashville\u2019s Belmont University, has seen their debut single \u201cCruise\u201d sell nearly 200,000 copies while cracking the Top 40 of Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart. Plus, they\u2019ve toured with Nashville stars like Blake Shelton. Meanwhile, Hubbard scored a cut on country artist Jason Aldean\u2019s upcoming album with \u201cBlack Tears,\u201d a song he wrote with Canaan Smith. Such successes have surpassed their expectations. \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing we get to do this for a living,\u201d says Hubbard. As they get ready to release a full-length album with producer Joey Moi (Nickelback, Jake Owen), the pair is focused on the future. \u201cOur idols create music that\u2019s real and that everyone can relate to,\u201d says Kelley. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of music we want to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE HOMETOWN: Monroe, Ga. (Tyler Hubbard);\u00a0Ormond Beach, Fla. (Brian Kelley) INFLUENCES: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lil Wayne,\u00a0Garth Brooks ALBUM: It\u2019z Just What We Do EP, out now WEBSITE: floridageorgialine.com Country rock duo Florida Georgia Line\u2014Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley\u2014has made an auspicious start for a new act. The duo, who began performing and writing songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[4955,4958,2093,4951,4956,4940,4953,4954,4962,4959,4960,4538,4952,665,4964,4963,4961,4965,4957,4950,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468"}],"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=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}