Somewhere between Georgia pretty boy Luke Bryan’s female-friendly hits and Eric Church’s testosterone-heavy, metal-influenced country music, you’ll find Lee Brice: a rising Nashville star who’s mastered the art of appealing to all his fans without alienating anyone. Everybody wins on songs like I Don’t Dance‘s title track: Nope, Brice is far too manly to shake his rump, but for you, dear, he’ll make an exception. It helps that the songwriting is as urgent as the production is ambitious. Where “Girls in Bikinis” plays with looped vocals and stuttering high-hats, “Drinking Class” might be the best blue-collar bar tune since Church’s “Drink in My Hand.”
