{"id":307313,"date":"2026-02-20T03:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:37:06","slug":"zach-top-the-grammy-winner-bringing-traditional-country-music-to-new-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307313\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Top: The Grammy winner bringing traditional country music to new audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top, 28, only burst onto the country music scene two years ago, but music has always been in his veins. Growing up in Washington state, he started playing in a band with his siblings at the age of seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a world where country encompasses many genres, Top is known for his more traditional sounding songs including I Never Lie, which was also Grammy nominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just what comes out of me when I open my mouth or play the guitar,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;I grew up loving the really, really old stuff, so it makes sense that I landed somewhere similar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top has been widely credited with bringing old-school country to younger audiences. &#8220;For them it&#8217;s something fresh and brand new,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We get a lot of younger people at the shows. With country music, at some point the fans always want to return to the roots and traditions of what we know and love as country music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got fortunate, I came along at the right time, and people wanted something raw versus the more hip-hop influenced country music that&#8217;s much more produced. I think people were ready to hear something more simple and real.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top, 28, only burst onto the country music scene two years ago, but music has always been in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-307313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}