‘The Way I Was Raised’ climbs the country music charts

Times Reporter      

 

Standard’s own country music star Drew Gregory released a new video in early September. ‘The Way I Was Raised’ is steadily climbing the music charts, and is the title track off of his new album. The video is quickly growing in popularity and is now being played on CMT, which is a first for the singer and a milestone event. 

Gregory is known for writing many of his own songs, but on this album he decided to use a few outside songs. He said for those who want to know which are written by him and which aren’t, people will just have to buy the album. He did tell us, though, that ‘The Way I Was Raised’ is one of the songs he didn’t write for the album. 

“That was one of the first ones I found that we really, really liked as an outside cut. I said if I was going to cut any of the songs they definitely had to really speak to me and really be something I could very strongly relate to,” said Gregory.  

“Even from the first couple of lines from that song I definitely knew it was going to be for me. The more we listened to it, the more I fell in love with it and it ended up being the title track of the album and then our newest single. I’m pretty happy with how it all turned out,” said Gregory. 

Gregory hadn’t planned on being a country singer all his life. He started playing guitar and singing a bit in Grade 9, but didn’t really take it seriously until years later. When people would hear him sing they would encourage him to put out an album, and so five years ago he packed up his truck and took off for Nashville to see what it was all about.

“I decided to pack up the truck and head down to Nashville and that kind of shed some light on what the whole industry is about. I just kind of went for fun to see what happens,” said Gregory.

“As soon as I came back I knew it was definitely what I wanted to do.”

Since his first trip to Nashville, Gregory has signed a management deal with Sirroma Entertainment. He recorded three songs that were released as singles. In January of 2012 ‘Lay it all out there’ was released, followed by ‘Country Hurricane’ in April and ‘Small town way’ in August. In June 2013 ‘Truck, Beer, Girl’ was released, which is still charting in the UK. 

Gregory said the next little while will continue to be busy for him; he has a lot of shows booked this fall, and now that harvest is over, he is planning to take his music west. He has gone east a few times to promote himself and his sound, but said now is the time to head out to British Columbia and work on finding new fans out west. 

While Standard is home, and will likely always be, Gregory plans to continue going to Nashville every chance he gets so that he can keep up with his friends and industry connections. 

To find out more about Drew Gregory, or to see how his music is doing, go to www.Drewgregorymusic.com.