George Birge with Carson Wallace at Joe’s on Weed Street – Chicago, IL

Don’t miss this upcoming event in Chicago, IL Happening on Friday, November 1, 2024 at Joe’s on Weed Street. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

21+ / www.joesbar.comBirge (rhymes with merge) was scrolling through the TikTok account he had just created when he came across a star of the platform poking fun at country music. Erynn Chambers, known to her three-quarter of a million followers as Rynnstar, joked that many country songs are just repetitious ditties about beer, trucks, and girls. To her credit, she had a point, but Birge was determined to prove to Rynnstar that in the right hands even the most mundane of phrases can inspire a great, multi-layered song. With that in mind, the Texas-born, Nashville-based songwriter grabbed his guitar and wrote Beer Beer, Truck Truck, an up-tempo sing-along that is about far more than those writing-room tropes. Its about missing the one you love and wooing them to come back. I know the city called you, go baby spread your wings/Ill be here waiting on you, out here in the country, Birge sings.The whole point was to say that, yeah, the country lifestyle may not be as flashy or as fast-paced as the city, but theres more to it than meets the eye and if you give me a chance, Ill show you how good it can be, Birge says. As the lyrics drive home, its not all beer, beer/truck, truck/girls in them tight jeans. Now signed to Barry Weisss RECORDS Nashville label, Birge is gearing up to release his debut EP and build on the buzz surrounding Beer Beer, Truck Truck. Despite the songs viral success, its important to point out that George Birge isnt a TikTok gimmick hes a dyed-in-the-wool songwriter with years of experience. I promised myself I was going to be true to the songs that I wanted to write and to the stories I wanted to tell, he says. Artists as diverse as neo-traditionalist Clay Walker and country rapper Colt Ford have taken notice: both have recorded his songs and Walker even released the Birge co-write Need a Bar Sometimes as his new single. (Birge has also written with rising star Matt Stell, Rascal Flatts Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus, and Chris Lane, among others.)And Didnt Think Id Miss is straight-up nostalgia, a classic country tale of pining for things you may not have appreciated in the moment, like the rustic beauty of a back road or a sports jersey with your family name on the back. Its a big old world out there and we all want to go explore it, but sometimes you take for granted how good you got it when youre growing up, he says. Birge doesnt have that problem right now. With the success of Beer Beer, Truck Truck, hes savoring both the musical and pop-culture moment and looking ahead to the next story to tell. He loves defying peoples expectations and smiles at how far two simple words beer and truck have already taken him. Im not a guy thats too cool for school. I just want to tell a story in a fresh way, like I heard on country radio growing up, Birge says. And then sit down and have a beer with whoevers listening.

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