Zach Top: Bringing Back Old-School Country Music in a Modern World | Billboard Cover

Billboard cover star and the ‘Future of Country’ rep Zach Top is bringing ’90s country music back. The crooner explains why he thinks his “I Never Lie” became successful, the accidental start of a band with his siblings, how he’s developed his style and more!

Zach Top:

I wanted to be a cowboy really bad. And my parents definitely realized, and I think I realized at some point that I was no good at being an actual cowboy, so maybe the closest I could get was to sing about them. Obviously, I’ve got, you know, sonically reminiscent sort of thing going on from the ’90s stuff, but it’s kind of – I feel like I cut my teeth on the same stuff that the ’90s guys cut theirs on. For one thing, I’m honored that people see me as, you know, sort of a spearhead or a leader back towards traditional country music, or country music the way that I fell in love with it, and, you know, still love. It’s a fun spot to be in. I think it’s a lot of just the right place, right time sort of a thing. You know, country has always been… country Music has always been cyclical. It kind of, you know, we’ve got our bread and butter, the roots, the traditions where we came from, and something new and, you know, a little edgy comes along, and everybody gets excited about that for good reason. And you know, kind of run with that for a little while, until people are like, yeah, but this is where we came from, and let’s get back to it a little bit. And so I think I came along at the right time for that. I was playing piano before I played guitar, but for whatever reason, I didn’t have a whole lot of interest in Chopin and Bach and Beethoven and stuff like that.

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