<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ryan Hurd joins Kelleigh Bannen on <em>Today’s Country Radio</em> to discuss his journey of going from a Nashville songwriter to recording artist, and, ultimately, releasing his debut album &#8216;Pelago.&#8217; They also chat about the origin of his massive hit &#8220;Chasing After You&#8221; featuring his wife, <a title="Maren Morris" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSMMorris/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fmaren-morris-tickets%2F">Maren Morris</a>.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ryan Hurd on Recording “Chasing After You”</strong><br>This song was like Music Row famous for a long time… And, [the songwriters] Brinley [Addington] and Jerry [Flowers] would sing it at rounds and then artists would hold it and promise to record it. And, that&#8217;s just how it goes sometimes. That&#8217;s the game we play as a writer and somehow it fell to me and I still look back on it. And I&#8217;m like, &#8220;I have no idea how of all the people in town,&#8221; this song, it was upon my shoulders to put it out. Because, the demo is exactly like what you hear in in the master. It&#8217;s that cool. You hear it and you&#8217;re just hooked and we&#8217;re just really lucky to have been gifted this amazing, amazing life-changing piece of art.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ryan Hurd on “What Are You Drinking” Feeling Like the Most Important Song on His Album</strong><br>The other song on this record, that&#8217;s outside is “What Are You Drinking.” And, I just got sent that I was on a beach in Mexico and Aaron [Eshuis] wrote it with Troy Cartwright and Andy Albert. And he sent it to me. He&#8217;s like, &#8220;Check this out.&#8221; He never sends me anything and I listened to it and Troy&#8217;s singing it. And I texted Troy immediately and just said, &#8220;If you&#8217;re not going to cut this, somebody is, and it might be me. So I need to know if you&#8217;re okay with that. I need to know before I even talked to Aaron about this and you should ask yourself if you&#8217;re okay with somebody else having this.&#8221; And, I can&#8217;t imagine not having that song on this record. It wouldn&#8217;t be&#8230; Every single song is important, but that one to me feels like the most important one for whatever reason.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ryan Hurd on ‘Pelago’ and Its Place In Country Music</strong><br>I think that I&#8217;ve grown a lot since I started writing. I&#8217;ve grown a lot since I&#8217;ve been trying to have my own project. And this is sort of that first combination where you&#8217;re like, &#8220;If this is the only thing people ever hear from me, I&#8217;m okay with it.&#8221; And this is the stamp I want to put on this moment. This is a stamp I want to put on me, my name. And you know, when people look back on country music in this time, maybe they&#8217;ll remember this record a little bit. And this is my little piece of that history, whether it&#8217;s big or small. I&#8217;m okay with it. And I&#8217;m really just psyched for people to hear it. And I hope they like it.</p>



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