Parker McCollum is the 2022 ACM New Male Artist of the Year and has charted two #1 songs. Parker joins Country Music Made Me to discuss when his passion for music first began growing up in Conroe, Texas, what it's like for a musician from the Lone Star State to cross over to Nashville, and the importance of focusing on his own voice rather than that of others. Parker and Brendan talk about his move to Austin after High School, the importance of the Saxon Pub, where he met three of his current band members, and how cool it's been to take this journey with them. Parker explains the feelings he had inside when he stepped on stage in-front of over 70 thousand fans at the Houston Rodeo which was at the top of his list of career accomplishments, the pressure he puts on himself when looking towards what's next, and the one thing that will make him feel like his journeys complete; his name within the Country Music Hall of Fame.
