Kevin Bacon and all that 'thing' six degrees' have nothing to Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell.
Bryan, who heads the only back-to-back concert of the season in bloom on Thursday and Friday, August 21 to 22, both sold out, and one of his opening acts, Swindell, is both from South Georgia. They both went to Georgia Southern University, where both members of Sigma Chi. But it are all a coincidence. Honest.
And when it comes to matches, it's like that television late at night: But wait! There's more!
Swindell's first job in Nashville after graduating from Georgia Southern worked for Bryan, selling their merchandise on tour.
"Me and Luke went to the same college and out of the same fraternity, but at different times, '" Swindell said, calling from a tour stop in Virginia. "Everyone thinks we went to school together."
Swindell, who does not even have a record deal when he wrote and drew his breakthrough hit, "Chillin 'Is',' is not the first person to pass the merch table on stage. Martina McBride began his career Hawking shirts and such to Garth Brooks.
Swindell looks in turn at the stand of Bryan as a blessing.
"He was not close to where it is now," Swindell said. "He was a new artist like me.
"When the time came for me to get my record deal, it was like I had been here just a little looking, just one that was me and my name on the line, and I have to do things I had to do, "Swindell said.
To be fair, Bryan may owe a bit of his success to Swindell. His fraternity brother Bryan wrote "Just a Sip", "beer in the headlights", "Rollercoaster", "Out Like That", "I'm Hungover", "I'm in love girl," "Love in a college Town "," Shore Thing "," Shake the Sand "and" the Sand brought me to the beach. "Swindell and Bryan also co-wrote Florida Georgia Line" This Is How We Roll ', featuring Bryan.
But Swindell has won more than a committee of the shirt of the association.
"I started performing in college, but I was not writing a lot," Swindell said. Instead, he was doing covers of artists such as Bryan, Eric Church and Dierks Bentley.
"I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I had to go to Nashville, '', Swindell said." When I got there, I kind of stopped performing, and went on tour with Luke. I would write a lot, and then I write a lot in the city when I was backing home.
"Now comes around and I'm back to do," 'said Swindell. "On stage, someone is singing your songs back and that's great." '
