Luke Bryan was born in Leesburg, Georgia, the youngest of three children. Bryan’s father farmed peanuts on the family-owned farm; not surprisingly, Bryan is more familiar with peanuts than the average person — in fact, had it not been for the interest in music that he developed, peanut farming could easily have been Bryan’s vocation. “I would either be working at my dad’s fertilizer/peanut company, or I would probably be in some kind of real estate stuff with my brother-in-law,” he told CMT of what he’d be doing for employment had he not pursued a career in music. Understandably, he has no regrets about the path that he wound up taking. “Probably, I would have been driving a tractor hauling peanuts, breathing a lot of peanut dust,” he added, “so I’m glad I’m singing.”
In 2014, Parade followed Bryan as he took a return trip to his childhood home. “I loved growing up here,” he told the outlet of his hometown, which boasts a population of about 3,500 or so. “I love the foundation of this town. It’s still very much the same, which puts a smile on my face.”
Bryan has continually returned to Leesburg, and has performed numerous concerts there over the years — so many, in fact, that he’s had to stop doing it. “I wore them out,” he jokingly told reporters in 2016, as reported by Country Rebel. “I think they are pretty much tired of me.”
