In , he released an independent album simply titled Logan Mize , and the record helped land him a publishing deal with Big Yellow Dog Music that same year. In , after plenty of live work, Mize issued his second long-player, Nobody in Nashville , through Big Yellow Dog's affiliated record label; the album fared well, rising to number 49 on the country charts, and he was soon opening shows for Blake Shelton , the Band Perry , Dierks Bentley , Eric Church , LeAnn Rimes , and many more.
Mize also got a boost in when he appeared in a nationally broadcast television commercial for cotton with actress Hayden Panettiere , and also appeared as himself on the television series Hart of Dixie. In , Mize landed a new record deal with Arista Nashville, and in the spring he released his first single for the label, "Can't Get Away from a Good Time. Mize began releasing new songs later in , starting with the single "Something Just Like This.
Early in , Mize released "Home Town. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Mize says he followed impulses and then back-tracked. He wrote songs and then scrapped them in favor of the unbelievable cuts he received from Music City A-listers.
Most of all, he listened. He listened a lot. The soulful ballad is what you'd get if Lee Brice sang a Billy Currington song: smart storytelling combined with a passionate delivery you can't help but learn a lesson from, especially in , when even during a pandemic the world moves too damn fast.
Mize recalls it when asked for which is most "personal. I kind of got lost in the whole, try to be somebody in Nashville system for a long time. I think I lost touch with some roots for a little bit. The "Better Off Gone" hitmaker has cycled in and out of every kind of record deal and contract to find himself mostly independent, miles from Nashville and smiling. I think I was always worried that it seemed fake what I was doing.
I farm up here. The whole thing's more believable. You listen to it, and I'm living that lifestyle. I think that's an easier sell for people, and it's easier for me to sell it because it's real. The album is real in the deepest sense of the word, articulating Mize's native territory with eleven songs full of rural color, one-take energy and a heart as big and wide as a wheat field in summer.
There are so many characters out here that you meet, and everyone's pretty stoic and quiet. But if you pay attention long enough, there's always a story that you'll pick up on. And those stories can be across the spectrum, from light to dark.
Logan Mize's own story began an hour from where he lives now, in Clearwater, KS. There, his family has been running Mize's Thriftway, a local grocery, for over fifty years. From a young age, Logan worked unloading trucks and carrying groceries.
But there was also music in the family — his great uncle Billy Mize was an architect of the '60s Bakersfield Sound — and in the air, leading Logan in a different direction.
And it wasn't always country music. Every day on the way to school, it was that or Madman Across the Water. That's where my love of piano came from. I started taking lessons, and then I got into Clannad and Enya and Celtic stuff. So at nine years old, I was learning Enya piano ballads. To this day, I love those.
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