Full Name – Tanner Usrey
Birthdate – March 11th
Hometown – Prosper, Texas
Current City – Texas
Musical Influences – Whiskey Myers, Faces, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Wade Bowen
Label – Atlantic Records
Current Project – Crossing Lines (as of date of article: 12/11/23)
Today’s spotlight shines on country artist and entertainer Tanner Usrey. The Texas native has had a passion for music since day one, and that passion is evident in both his journey and his music catalog.
“I grew up in Prosper, Texas, a small town where I was always singing,” Usrey recalled. “They used to tell me to be quiet all the time,” he laughed. “I was the kid in class who was always singing, and I kept that up until my senior year of high school when I saw a Wade Bowen concert,” Usrey remembers being captivated by artists and the country music genre throughout his upbringing. “My buddy and I would drive around, playing and listening to music like Whiskey Myers, Wade Bowen, and old-school Alan Jackson—stuff like that.” He also credits his brothers for introducing him to Texas country music. Although Usrey still enjoys the music of his youth, he tends to lean more towards older influences in the genre, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd. Clearly inspired by the artists he admired and the Bowen concert he attended, Usrey began to take music more seriously, performing gigs wherever he could. “Two months after I started playing guitar, I began playing actual shows—acoustic shows—after I graduated.”