Parker McCollum on Achieving Country Stardom While Honoring His Iconoclastic Texas Heroes: ‘I Was Never Gonna Go Write Pickup Truck and Beer Songs’

Parker McCollum on Achieving Country Stardom While Honoring His Iconoclastic Texas Heroes: ‘I Was Never Gonna Go Write Pickup Truck and Beer Songs’

It was clear from the start of his career with the Nashville majors that Parker McCollum was not just another one of the boys coming up through the Music Row machinery. He had the goods to become a true breakout star, and McCollum’s first four singles in a row through MCA Nashville all went to No. 1 on either the Billboard or Mediabase country airplay charts, along with going platinum (or triple-platinum, in the case of 2020’s “Pretty Heart”). B…