New country music artist, Chase McDaniel, stopped by the QYK studio to play a few songs for us. Chase was raised in the small town of Greensburg, Kentucky by his grandparents. He went to college at the University of Louisville and after he graduated he chased his dream of Country music all the way to Nashville. While he was in Nashville we found misfortune. During the pandemic he became jobless and down to his last $12, he almost packed it up and headed home, if not for a friend who loaned him enough to cover rent for just a few more weeks.
Chase submitted more than 50 job applications until he got one. He then began working double shifts, sleeping as little as four hours a night and writing and recording with his producer and best friend Jerry Jacobs.
In a press release from his record label it says about Chase, “Grateful for the second chance, Chase put his heart and soul into making his music, sharing the good, the bad and the ugly – and fans have connected with his strength through vulnerability and honesty—as well as his enigmatic swagger. The self-aware “Project” landed the No.1 spot on the Billboard Digital Sales and iTunes Country single charts and the heartbreaking track written about his sister “Your Daughter” reached No. 3 (all genre), an unprecedented feat for the 28-year-old talent, who was recently signed to Big Machine Records/Big Machine Label Group.”
