Bailey Zimmerman Teases 'Out Of This World' Collaborations Forward Of CMA Fest

Contemporary off a powerhouse collaboration with Luke Combs, the nation hitmaker made a particular cease at Elevating Cane’sflagship location in downtown Nashville, the place he labored a shock “shift” behind the counter, carried out for followers, and chatted with press about every little thing that is coming subsequent.

Forward of his huge CMA Fest efficiency this weekend, Bailey Zimmerman took the time to speak about his journey from gasoline line employee to chart-topping artist, the shocking story behind his new music, and why the subsequent section of his profession is shaping as much as be his boldest but.

“It is loopy to assume how far issues have come,” he stated on the media occasion, which The Blast attended. “Only a few years in the past, I used to be laying gasoline pipe, now I am flipping rooster fingers and singing to followers in the midst of Nashville earlier than CMA Fest. Life is wild, man.”

One of many largest highlights of his 12 months to this point? His dream collaboration with nation megastar Luke Combs that just about did not occur.

“I texted him considering he would not reply,” Zimmerman admitted. “As a result of it is Luke Combs, you understand? However a month later, he hit me again, and we simply clicked. I went to the studio, we made a music collectively, and we began hanging out.”

The 2 even filmed some uncommon content material collectively, one thing Combs does not do typically. “He was like, ‘If I am gonna do that, I higher do it with the king,'” Bailey recalled with fun. “That was a freaking honor.”

Their monitor is at the moment climbing the charts, and Zimmerman is soaking all of it in. “It is a dream come true. I by no means thought it will occur, however I am so glad it did.”

And whereas his collab with Combs remains to be making waves, Zimmerman says extra are on the way in which, together with one he calls “out of this world.”

“I’ve obtained some stuff developing that I am actually pumped about,” he teased. “One specifically is simply… wild. No person would ever anticipate us to sound good collectively, however we do. I feel it is gonna blow individuals’s minds.”

“Everybody desires me to do one thing with Morgan, and I need to, after all,” he stated. “It is nearly the correct music and the correct second. However Kacey? Man, I have been a fan of hers since earlier than I even sang. ‘Observe Your Arrow,’ all of that, she’s simply so herself. I really like that about her.”

Zimmerman can also be embracing the evolving panorama of nation music, noting that genre-blending collaborations, corresponding to his current monitor with rapper BigXthaPlug, have gotten more and more widespread.

“I did not even know he was engaged on a rustic mission till I noticed a textual content six months later,” Bailey stated. “He hit me up, stated he liked my music, and I used to be like, ‘Dude, let’s do that.’ And it labored. It felt like I used to be within the room once they wrote it, it simply clicked with my voice and my story.”

His willingness to take dangers is a part of what makes him so compelling. That very same authenticity exhibits up in his new single, which strays from heartbreak and leans into private progress.

“It is not like, ‘F you, I am unhappy,'” he stated with a smile. “It is extra like, ‘Dang, I preserve chasing crimson flags.’ The music’s about this woman who’s every little thing I need however nothing I would like. I do not want her, however I need her.”

Bailey says the monitor displays a extra mature section of his life. “I am nonetheless chasing ladies in bars, so perhaps not too mature,” he joked. “However it’s undoubtedly extra about the place I have been in the previous couple of years, not simply teenage heartbreak.”

And whereas he is making all of it look simple now, Zimmerman is fast to level out that his success did not occur in a single day, and it did not occur alone.

“I did not even begin singing till 2020,” he shared. “I used to be constructing gasoline pipelines. A man I did not even like on the time instructed me, ‘Dude, you gotta sing.’ And that modified every little thing.”

He posted his first video, and it blew up.

Quickly after, Zimmerman moved to Nashville and linked up together with his now-managers, Chief Zaruk and Simon Tikhman, who believed in him from the beginning. “They noticed one thing in me I did not even see in myself,” he stated. “Identical with Warner Data, they gave me a deal that did not screw me. That helped me develop.”

He additionally credited Ben Vaughn, a writer who took an opportunity on him early on. “He is not with us anymore, however man, he noticed one thing in me when no person else would.”

From his crew to his followers, Bailey says he owes every little thing to the individuals who’ve supported him. “There are of us who got here into my life, helped me, and by no means obtained something in return,” he stated. “Meaning one thing. I did not do that alone. It took an enormous crew to get right here.”

Now, as he gears up for what guarantees to be an enormous 12 months of releases, collaborations, and continued tour dates, Zimmerman is all in. “I simply need to make the craziest, greatest music I can,” he stated. “Attempt every little thing. Work with everyone. Simply see what we are able to create.”

With grit, gratitude, and loads of expertise, Bailey Zimmerman is proving he isn’t only one to observe. He is one who’s right here to remain.