

Hurd then recorded Panorama handing out 500 copies to ticket holders who came out to see a concert he did with Morris and fellow Nashvillian Ryan Beavers.
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They wrote a Tim McGraw song, “Last Turn Home,” that marked her first writing credit for a major artist, and their professional friendship soon blossomed into a romance. In a songwriting room in 2013, Hurd met Maren Morris, his musical muse, now wife and, as of March 2020, mother of their son Hayes Andrew Hurd.
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He landed a series of key cuts – with Jake Owen, Dierks Bentley, and Rascal Flatts – plus a progression of singles: Blake Shelton’s “Lonely Tonight,” Lady A’s “You Look Good,” and Luke Bryan’s “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset.”
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Hurd got a half-time job doing research each day until 11:00 AM, leaving him free to focus on songwriting the rest of the day, and he grew fairly quickly. You don't have to be the best singer or the best artist, just a good writer.” “I had that network of people around me who were all extremely talented, and I figured out that songwriting is a job that you can actually make money from,” Hurd said. When Eshuis enrolled at Belmont a year later, the two became running buddies with a few other songwriters who were soon to make waves in Music City: Joey Hyde (who co-wrote The Swon Brothers’ “Later On” with Hurd), Matt McGinn (“Heaven,” “What Ifs”), and indie singer/songwriter Steve Moakler. He studied sociology and economics at Belmont University in Nashville where he quickly fell into a band and toured a bit his freshman year. Hurd and Eshuis played in a local band in Michigan, though Hurd planned to put music behind him when he went away to college. “I've always just been attracted to the way that country songs are put together.”

“A lot of the music that we started making was in the structure of country music, very hook-based,” Hurd said. The wordplay and identifiable choruses created by Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley formed something of a template as Hurd developed crude recording techniques in that home studio with Aaron Eshuis, a friend who likewise found his way to Nashville and ultimately became Hurd’s producer and creative collaborator. Hurd cut his musical teeth playing drums and listening to rock bands – Jimmy Eat World and Wilco were personal favorites – and to country music on the radio. “It was just a little computer room that had an interface and a bunch of instruments laying around.”

“It was not anything that you would look at and think, ‘Oh, that's a studio,’” Hurd recalled. Both parents dabbled in music in their spare time – Dad sang in the church choir, and Mom played piano, and they even created a makeshift recording studio in the basement of their modest home. With the collections Ryan Hurd (April 2017), Panorama (re-issued July 2019), Platonic (September 2019) and EOM (June 2020), Hurd has created a body of work that is vivid, reflective, and laden with lyrics that are cinematic, scene-setting images that transport and deliver a genuine vulnerability capped by irresistible melodies.įrom Kalamazoo, Michigan, Hurd was raised by a father who worked in advertising and a mother who earned her paycheck as an occupational therapist. Hurd and Morris performed the “smoldering new duet” ( Rolling Stone) for the first time on national television on the “56th ACM Awards” on CBS. Following the success of his Platinum-certified Top 20 “To A T,” Hurd continues his hit-producing path with “Chasing After You,” his first official duet with wife Maren Morris, which became country radio’s most-added song its impact week in March. With nearly 400 million career streams, Ryan Hurd has the attention of entertainment tastemakers including Esquire, GQ, Maxim, American Songwriter, Billboard, People, NBC’s “TODAY,” “CBS This Morning” and more. There’s a lot of complexity wrapped up in Hurd, who’s balanced his budding Arista Nashville recording career with a songwriting portfolio that includes hits by Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Lady A, Diplo and more. He embodies the new masculine - simultaneously amiable and focused, respectful and edgy, commanding and supportive.

Ryan Hurd is a rough-cut romantic whose brand of country is just a sliver outside the norms of Music Row.
