Lee Brice

Curb recording artist Lee Brice is set to perform at Vina Robles Amphitheatre on June 5.

Lee Brice is a craftsman, the kind whose boundless desire to hone his skills and relentless pursuit of perfection are matched only by his humility about the entire process. His latest album, ‘I Don't Dance,’ is a showcase for his painstaking approach to writing and recording, with his distinctive fingerprints clearly emblazoned on every element of the album.

He released his debut album, ‘Love Like Crazy,’ in 2009. The title track reached #3 on the Billboard Country chart and set a record as the longest-charting song in its history. In 2012, he topped his own success with ‘Hard 2 Love,’ an album that went Gold and featured three #1 Country singles, including "I Drive Your Truck," which won Song of the Year at both the CMA and ACM Awards. The record earned raves from NPR to Country Weekly and found the New York Times hailing him as "a sensitive macho man," a compliment that perfectly encapsulates both sides of Brice's persona.  

"On my first record, I had all these ideas and sounds I didn't know how to get out of me," Brice remembers, crediting frequent collaborator Doug Johnson with helping him learn some of the early ropes of recording. "On Hard 2 Love, I stepped out and tried things in the studio; if they didn’t work they didn’t work, but often times those experiments and ideas became the basis of some of my favorite songs."

With the success of his first two albums under his belt, Brice self-produced his third album, ‘I Don’t Dance’ in 2014. The title track became a Top 10 country single in the summer of 2014, building anticipation for the record’s release later that year. Released Sept. 9, 2014, ‘I Don’t Dance’ debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #5 on the Billboard 200, setting the stage for Brice’s meteoric rise in the country music world.

Brice has had quite a year by kicking off 2015 with a double ACM win (Single Record Of The Year for “I Don't Dance,” awarded to Artist and Producer). The multiple Platinum and Gold Record (“I Don’t Dance,” “Drinking Class”) seller then performed on NBC's “The Voice,” delivered a featured performance on ABC’s "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night To Rock" and was the only country artist to perform on iHeartRadio’s Music Festival's Daytime Village Stage last summer. Featured in USA Today for his use of Periscope to connect with his fans, his song “Sirens” was included on the new “MADDEN NFL 16” game and soundtrack. Having been nominated for CMA “Single Of The Year” with “I Don’t Dance” this year, he followed the honor by playing Rome, GA on November 15 and becoming the first country artist to perform in all 50 states in 2015.