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[email protected] Chase Bryant Turns The Page On Tragedy INSIDE THIS With An Ingratiating Debut Album ISSUE Chase Bryant released a pair of top 10 singles on Billboard’s Bryant learned mostly to trust his own instincts, difficult Country Airplay chart in 2014 and 2015, yet he only released as that is in a creative field. Another instrument can always his first full album, Upbringing, on July 16 — and neither of be added, or subtracted, from a production. Another line can Walker Hayes’ those years-old hits is on it. always be rewritten in a song. Another track can be penned to “Fancy” No. 1 Upbringing is a reboot of a replace an existing one. >page 5 promising career that went off the One of the biggest challenges rails, with Bryant ultimately at- for any artist is knowing when a tempting suicide. That endeavor project is finished, and knowing failed — one of the six chambers when to trust his or her voice in- Nashville Marks in his .357 was mistakenly empty, stead of the input from allies. Three Milestones and the gun simply clicked when “I drove home last night, >page 10 he pulled the trigger — so he got a turned [the album] on and two second chance at life, and at pur- songs in, I was like, ‘Oh, shit. You suing his musical passions. know, I think we did something Upbringing is one of the results, good here,’ ” says Bryant.