LOGAN MIZE

Thu Jun 15 2023 at 07:00 pm

Warehouse25sixty-five Kitchen + Bar | Grand Junction

Warehouse25sixty-five Kitchen + Bar
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LOGAN MIZE
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GJ you are in for a treat when country hit maker Logan Mize returns to the W stage for an up close and personal acoustic show you don't want to miss! Tables and Tickets are on sale NOW!
Logan Mize's own story began an hour from where he lives now, in Clearwater, KS. There, his family has been running Mize's Thriftway, a local grocery, for over fifty years. From a young age, Logan worked unloading trucks and carrying groceries. But there was also music in the family – his great uncle Billy Mize was an architect of the '60s Bakersfield Sound – and in the air, leading Logan in a different direction. And it wasn't always country music.
“As a kid, I was obsessed with Elton John,” he says. “We listened to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road non-stop in the tape deck of my dad's Jeep. Every day on the way to school, it was that or Madman Across the Water. That's where my love of piano came from. I started taking lessons, and then I got into Clannad and Enya and Celtic stuff. So at nine years old, I was learning Enya piano ballads. To this day, I love those. Then when I found out about country music in the '90s, I thought, 'Wow, this really sounds like my surroundings.' But the pop rock stuff from the '70s and '80s like John Mellencamp and Tom Petty was just as big, if not a bigger influence on me. That's what I wanted to do.”
After two “distracted” years in college (“Songwriting was more interesting than my studies”), he dropped out and moved to Nashville, which he says loomed as a “kind of a mystical place.” The Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ole Opry, Music Row - it all felt a bit intimidating. So Mize was surprised when he landed a publishing deal in short order. “I didn't even know what a publishing company was,” he says with a laugh. “A song plugger heard me at an open mike, invited me to play a song for Brett Jones, a songwriter who ran Wyoming Sky Music, and I had a deal by the end of the day.” While Jones championed Logan and helped shape his songwriting skills, the deal fell apart after a year. “I naively thought everything was going to be smooth sailing,” he says. “But then I found it impossible to get another publishing deal. That's when I really started to feel like, 'Okay, I need to buckle down and get serious about this.'”
While he dug in on his craft and put his own band together, he worked a slew of jobs to support himself - from driving a dump truck to building forklift palettes to being a bouncer at Coyote Ugly. In 2009, he landed a deal with publisher Big Yellow Dog, and released his first, self-titled album. Over the next decade and three more albums, he scored hit singles with “Ain't Always Pretty” and “Better Off Gone” (which was recently certified Gold by the RIAA), logged over 350 million streams on different platforms, and toured constantly, sharing stages with Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, and Lee Ann Womack.
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Warehouse25sixty-five Kitchen + Bar, 2565 American Way,Grand Junction,CO,United States

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