“Music quite literally controls my entire mind, my mood, everything,” country singer Parker McCollum tells Apple Music’s Kelleigh Bannen. “And I love sad songs at the end of the day when the sun is going down. Always in that headspace when I’m writing songs, I’m right there in the golden hour.” McCollum started hearing those melodies in his head when he was young, before he could even play guitar. “I was always singing some kind of melody, or writing my own lyrics,” he says. When his brother convinced him to learn how to play guitar in his barn, that’s when everything changed. “I don’t look at it any more differently today than I looked at it back then,” he says. “Going out, having fun onstage, and when you’re in a songwriting mode or a creative mode, being as honest and as vulnerable as you can.” It’s that authenticity that drives McCollum, and he wants to use his budding success to be an example to others: “I was really blessed with the family I grew up with and the influences I had in my life, and I wanna be that for somebody one day.” Watch the film and interview, and listen to Parker McCollum’s major-label debut album, Gold Chain Cowboy, along with selections from the rest of the artists in the Up Next series: http://apple.co/-UpNextParkerMcCollum
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