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    Luke Bryan: 'There'll always be people who say I ruined country music'

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Aug 07, 2020 7 minutes

    This wasn't Luke Bryan's first rodeo.

    "Am I too backlit? Hold on," the country star said the other day as he picked up a video call at his home in Nashville. Dressed in a golf shirt and ball cap, sunglasses dangling from a cord around his neck, he stood and moved to a different part of the window-lined room.

    "The problem is, if I do it this way, some of my awards get in the frame," he said, gesturing to a wall hung with gold and platinum plaques. "And I don't want you to think I'm so ... egotistical that I have to do Zoom calls with awards in 'em."

    Bryan, 44, got accustomed to the finer points of remote technology while shooting the latest season of "American Idol," which suddenly became an at-home production in April thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the Leesburg, Georgia, native is putting his knowledge to use again as he talks up his seventh studio album, "Born Here Live Here Die Here," his first since he joined "Idol" as a judge (alongside Katy Perry and Lionel Richie) in 2018.

    His latest, "Born Here

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